New research on our internal trade-off when physical and mental performance are put in direct competition has found that cognition takes less […]

Our DNA influences our ability to read a person’s thoughts and emotions from looking at their eyes, suggests a new study published […]

Scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have created a new technique that simplifies the production of […]

It is one of the distinct sounds of summer: the noise of people tapping the tops of their cans of fizzy drink […]

It is a quite extraordinary figure. Dr Curtis Cooper from the University of Central Missouri has found the largest-known prime number – […]

How is a human being like a fish? Just as a fish never stops to think about the water in which it […]

Jesus walking on water is accounted in three of the four New Testament Gospels. One account can be found in Matthew 14:22-23 […]

The stars that you see in the night sky are part of the Milky Way, our home galaxy. But the Milky Way […]

Organist William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 with the first reflecting telescope that he built. It was the first identification […]

While the movies and YouTube videos might have you believe that asteroids are heading straight toward Earth the European Space Agency, who […]