As people grow older they often seem to become less sociable. Is this actually the case, and if so, what causes this change?

Have you ever wondered how animals adapt to urban life, with its traffic jams and busy streets? A fascinating observation by ...

Evolution isn't just about survival of the fittest, sometimes it's about cooperation. More than a century ago, Peter Kropotkin. Inspired by his observations in the tough climates of Russia's Far East, ...

A recent social media trend involving taping one's mouth shut at night to prevent mouth breathing has sparked considerable debate. But according to new research, this popular sleep hack may be less ...

Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

Colonizing Mars comes with a lot of challenges and quandaries. The first questions that come to mind are probably something akin to: 'how do we get people there?' and 'what do we take with us, and ...

Microplastics are everywhere—in our water, food, and even the air we breathe. A new scientific review highlights a growing concern: microplastics and nanoplastics are accumulating in human brain ...

Whoever coined the phrase “it’s a small world” obviously never tried to travel around it! In truth, the planet’s dimensions are quite impressive, and determining just how big it is took many thousands ...

An international team of astronomers, led by scientists at the University of Birmingham, has reported the second-ever discovery of a multi-exoplanetary circumbinary system in the peer-reviewed journal ...

Scientists from the University of Leeds have unveiled dramatic changes unfolding across Greenland's vast icy expanse. Over the last 30 years, Greenland has witnessed an astonishing reduction in its ...