Struggling to get your dog to fetch your slippers? Scientists who strapped eye-tracking helmets to a bunch of dogs have found ...

Using a process known as quantum annealing, the researchers have provided a proof-of-concept method to study the dynamics of ...

Beryllium-10 is a radioactive isotope that is continuously produced by cosmic rays interacting with Earth's atmosphere. When ...

Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the West African countries that underpin the world's ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

In the opening scene of Love, Actually, Hugh Grant's character says how, whenever he gets gloomy with the state of the world, he thinks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport.

Once the two galaxies are merged, the supermassive hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud – if black hole there is – will make its way to the galactic center, where it will eventually, after many more ...

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and potentially shedding light on the evolution of language.

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

Two American astronauts who have been trapped on the International Space Station since June could return to Earth earlier in ...

Here's another way of potentially postponing the onset of dementia and reducing dementia risk: cultivating an active social ...