Scientists have sniffed out the reason why some people think their pee has a pungent smell after eating asparagus while others do not — it is all down to genes. French novelist Marcel Proust...
Retrieving an asteroid sample is no easy task. Doing the job blindfolded is even more challenging. That’s why scientists equipped the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with a set of eyes to watch it all unfold....
Was Pluto’s frozen heart formed in an ancient impact basin and was it once closer to the north pole? And does the icy heart conceal a subsurface ocean? Scientists are offering several new scenarios...
A new study has found that higher water temperatures have ravaged the Great Barrier Reef, causing the worst coral bleaching recorded by scientists. In the worst-affected area, 67% of a 700km swath...
A joint team of scientists from the UK and Canada have developed a theory they claim will challenge a cornerstone of physics: the speed of light. A key principle in modern physics is that light and...
The increasing number of cases associated with Type 2 Diabetes kept medical experts across the globe concerned. It is predicted by the World Health Organization (WHO) that this abnormal condition...
Scientists are investigating the mysterious deaths of at least 10,000 endangered frogs, in a river which leads into South America’s most famous lake on Peru’s border with Bolivia. The dead Titicaca...
Marine biologists are crossing their fingers after New Caledonia’s coral reef, a UN-inscribed natural wonder of the world, was hit by bleaching this year. Bleaching — when corals turn...
Spiders are scary insects for many people around the world, but there is this type of them, which keeps everyone staring at them, especially with the “dance moves” they perform. Yes,...