Back in California, the San Andreas Fault is remarkably similar to the Sagaing Fault. Both are straight strike-slip faults, ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

A new study on Uranus has found it is hotter than we thought, prompting scientists to suggest we should return to the ice giant.

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 ...

P ain sucks. Burning, aching, stabbing. Emotional, physiological, existential. There’s all kinds to choose from, and modern medicine has innovated many clever ways to overcome it. Thing is, as much as ...