From the age of three, the 12th Century nun, mystic, poet and composer Hildegard von Bingen had dazzling visions of shimmering points of light and falling stars, which she recorded in detail in her ...

“The abyssal plain covers half of the surface of the Earth, but far less than one percent of it has ever been seen,” begins the trailer for new deep-sea documentary, How Deep Is Your Love. Thanks to ...

Sarcopenia, or muscle loss and weakness, is among the crueler consequences of aging. Not only are you gradually robbed of your ability to perform everyday tasks, your walking speed slows down and your ...

Around 631,000 years ago—a geological blink of an eye—catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life ...

Caitlin Bloomer, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, found a crayfish so huge, she felt like it might be a record-setter. “I thought, ‘There’s no doubt I have ...

Your brain is talking to your skeleton, and more than you probably realize. For example, doctors have long noticed something odd about people with traumatic brain injuries—their bones heal faster.

It’s a sight you don’t see often, or ever: a common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) apparently hitching a ride on the back of a Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) by clinging onto its fin. Featured Video ...

The good news? The dazzling Laimosemion laranja killifish was just discovered in the Brazilian Amazon. The bad news? The team that discovered it is already recommending that it be placed on the ...

You might think by the year 2026 there wouldn’t be any major geological formations left to discover, but you’d be wrong. According to a new study published in Communications Earth & Environment, a ...

In Isaac Asimov’s 1942 story Runaround, a robot named SPD-13 (Speedy) malfunctions while on a critical mission to save his human operators from roasting to death under the planet Mercury’s relentless ...