Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

A previously unknown protein in a family of bacteria found in soil and the human gut microbiome has been discovered—which ...

Keir Starmer's government is expected to announce a host of cuts to sickness and disability support in the coming days. The ...

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Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

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Solar power satellite (SPS) advocates have been dreaming of using space resources to build massive constructions for decades.

A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently devised a method allowing them to create large amounts of a ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells—which ...

Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on another planet. Over 72 flights, the little ...