Mauna Loa may hold the record of the largest active volcano, but it turns out it’s not the biggest overall – not by a long ...

The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole in the Caribbean Sea, some 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the coast of Belize. With a diameter of 318 meters (1,043 feet) and a depth of 124 meters (407 ...

A first-of-its-kind implant has just been granted approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment ...

There are also two approved vaccines against chikungunya: a live-attenuated vaccine called IXCHIQ and a virus-like particle ...

Despite being less than a week old, that makes Thaddeus Daniel Pierce the world’s “oldest baby”, nabbing the title from a ...

These could help us move away from animal testing in drug discovery and open the door to personalized medicine.

"This raises a disturbing prospect—a Kardashev Type III metasociety may annihilate planetary systems as it expands to ...

There’s a good reason why these two don’t qualify as sixth senses, however. The first – well, that’s obvious: it doesn’t ...

Laura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial ...

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“They’re like the songbirds of the Southern Ocean. During the breeding season, if you drop a hydrophone into the water ...

On Earth, the quantum computers are constantly checked, calibrated, and kept in the most pristine conditions. In space, you ...