The classic test of delayed gratification shows that the promise by a peer – even a stranger – to achieve the same goal helps ...

"One of the benefits of Mars is life insurance for life collectively," Musk said in an interview with Fox News. "So ...

B ig news, California. It’s been confirmed that you have a new record for the highest tree, discovered by happy accident at a ...

The smoke is created by burning the ballots, and originally just meant that no pope had been elected. It was only in the conclave of 1914, which elected Benedict XV, that different smoke colors were ...

The internal motions can be measured as waves pass through them, and those waves – beyond making beautiful sounds – can tell us a lot about the properties of the stars. This is the field of ...

The deep ocean is understood as any portion of the Earth's sea that is deeper than 200 meters (656 feet). Those regions cover ...

E lon Musk's private space firm SpaceX now has its own municipality in Texas, complete with its own Mayor and Commissioner, ...

I mprints of evolution can be seen among the Haenyeo of South Korea. After generations of foraging for food on the seabed, ...

S cientists now have a new approach to study never-before-seen quantum phenomena. Physicists from the Massachusetts Institute ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

A new-to-science species of worm has just pulled out one hell of a party trick: it can squash up like an accordion to a ...

A blanket requirement for placebo-controlled trials threatens research ethics and vaccine access, it’s being argued.