S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

It can be a vicious cycle. Burdened by the belief that you don’t belong where you’ve ended up, you overwork yourself, aiming ...

As it turns out, we tend towards the same cognitive errors with coin flips. Despite being pretty much the iconic example of ...

The team’s model predicted that approximately 103,000 cancers per year – around 5 percent of the 2 million new cancer ...

Dr Matthew Taylor from Augusta University set out to analyze and classify a series of relics made from human bone that had ...

"Crucially, however, the highest proportion of species classified as Near Threatened or more vulnerable to extinction on the ...

According to various sources, running uphill on a treadmill is easier than running on an actual hill. This seems to make a bit of intuitive sense, as on a treadmill you might thin ...

W e may have visually led predators to thank for some of the most dazzling marine species: sea slugs. Luminous greens, blues, ...

The pygmy whale in question was thought to be around 18 meters long (59 feet) and was hunted and killed by a pod of more than ...

"There has been a bewildering array of different ecological roles for crocodylomorphs, from terrestrial herbivores and ...

In other words, most people who don’t have children have made that decision on purpose, rather than wanting children but being unable to have them for some reason. It’s a group that’s growing in size, ...

A n intriguing new study suggests that the universe may rotate once every 500 billion years. If correct, the authors believe that it could explain one of the most annoying puzzles in astronomic ...