Nestled underneath the corpus callosum, in the middle of the brain, a tiny, pine-cone-shaped gland sits and spits out melatonin. It’s called the pineal gland, after its shape, and its main job that we ...

The Sulawesi coelacanth ( Latimeria menadoensis ), meanwhile, remained undiscovered until scientists came across one at a ...

Alicella gigantea is basically a big, pale shrimp-like creature that lives in the deepest depths of Earth’s oceans. It has ...

“Dumbo octopus are a rare and unusual species that live on the seafloor. They reproduce and grow slowly, are very soft and ...

T iny pollen grains too small to see have revealed that flowers are at least 123 million years old, more than 2 million years ...

“We hence call this system the ‘cosmic joust’,” study co-lead Pasquier Noterdaeme, a researcher at the Institut ...

Researchers are yet to verify whether the supposed descendants like drawing weird prototype helicopter things.

The system ʋ Octantis (pronounced nu Octantis) should be hostile to planets. It contains a sub-giant star 57 percent heavier than our Sun and a white dwarf about 43 percent lighter.

The virus that causes cold sores is very common, but scientists say recent research should not be a cause for panic.

You may think you’re free of addictions, but there’s a better than 50/50 chance that when the alarm goes off your response is ...