When you hear about “science focused on how dogs can live their best lives with us” it sounds like an imaginary job made up by a child. However, the field of animal welfare science is rea ...

Dark energy is (probably) real, but physicists still don’t know what it’s made of or how to interact with it. One idea that solves this problem is that dark matte ...

Humans seem to have been adapted to the last ice age in similar ways to wolves and bears, according to our recent study, ...

Humans seem to have been adapted to the last ice age in similar ways to wolves and bears, according to our recent study, challenging longstanding theories about how and where our ...

The issues surrounding sex testing in sports may seem like a new phenomenon, but this has been coming up at least since women were allowed to compete in the Olympics – so ...

It’s hard to make up a myth about sharks – they are incredible animals you would believe almost anything about. But one myth, perhaps the most harmful myth about any animal ...

As I finished my PhD in 1992, the universe was full of mystery – we didn’t even know exactly what it is made of. One could ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by ...

As I finished my PhD in 1992, the universe was full of mystery – we didn’t even know exactly what it is made of. One could argue that cosmologists had made little ...

(via SpaceX) During its five day mission, Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew completed 75 orbits around Earth.

In this episode, we take a peek at brand-new flood imagery created by Climate Central’s FloodVision team - imagery that shows just what our coastal communities will look like in ...

(via Veritasium) Europa Clipper is looking for signs of alien life in a very deadly place.