Nothing can go faster than light. It’s a rule of physics woven into the very fabric of Einstein’s special theory of relativity. The faster something goes, the closer it gets to its perspective of...
There’s nothing quite like drinking with friends, and it turns out ants may agree as they have their own form of social drinking too. But instead of getting on the beers, ants’ drink of...
If your kids aren’t keen on a particular dish, you might want to try changing the look of the crockery it’s served in. A new study has revealed how the color of a bowl...
Human babies pack a lot of growth into those nine months between conception and birth to give them and their meaty, complex brains a chance at survival. Just how evolution came to grant humans...
Researchers dug up two fossils belonging to ancient, flappy, and snouted arthropod relatives from what’s now a sheep field near Llandrindod Wells in Wales. At only 13 and 3 millimeters (about 0.5 and 0.1...
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not possible for you to swallow your own tongue. If you’re a human, at least. It turns out toads actually do it on purpose every time they eat. “We...
Ice isn’t always ice all the way through. Even at temperatures well below freezing, its surface can be coated in a film of quasi-liquid atoms, with its thickness usually only a few nanometers. The...
For the better part of a century, quantum physics and the general theory of relativity have been a marriage on the rocks. Each perfect in their own way, the two just can’t stand each...