In May 1883, Krakatoa awoke and started to rumble with volcanic activity, culminating in an intense eruption on August 27. It ...

A lmost all human languages follow Zipf's law of abbreviation – and it turns out, so do bird songs. This strange observation ...

C ommissioners of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have decided to allow black bear hunting for ...

There’s no point convincing people of the safety of a vaccine if they don’t even know what it protects against.

The beleaguered bunnies are infected with cottontail rabbit papilloma virus – also called Shope papilloma virus – which is ...

Kookaburras are known for their laugh, but they're one of several bird species that seem to be having a joke on simple-minded ...

To complicate the matter, no human remains were found in the sediment layer that contained the arrowheads, although the ...

Antarctica has no native population or permanent residents, but it does have a transitory community of scientists and support ...

The work indicates that the picture of extraterrestrial water being delivered to Earth is complex. Maybe not all comets, but ...

The Silverpit Crater was first described in 2002 by geophysicists Simon Stewart and Phil Allen. Their theory? That it was a ...

According to those documents, on August 22 a "strong bright light was accompanied by smoke and travelled toward a village called 'Dilaver' in the eastern side of Suleymaniyah", while the nearby ...

After the Maya people known as Lakandon-Ch'ol were forced out of their capital, Lakam Tun ("Great Rock") in 1586, they moved further into the jungle, creating the city of Sak-Bahlán, or the "land of ...