The monthly average was around 20 million square kilometers (8 million square miles), while the peak was reached on September 28 at 22.4 million square kilometers (8.5 million square miles). At its ...

Discovered in a cave in southern Italy in 1998, the “infant of Grotta delle Mura” died at around 7.5 months to 1.5 years of ...

For all our fancy telescopes and particle accelerators, we still haven’t managed to detect even a smidgen of dark matter. In ...

According to the legend, the moon-eyed people were short, white-skinned and bearded, and only came out at night because their ...

As the length of the string increases, more coils form, which means the probability of knotting becomes even greater.

All that being said, microwaving food can very quickly become unsafe depending on how you do it. While some foods might come ...

A signal beamed towards Earth from Mars has finally been decoded after thousands of people from around the world spent more ...

T he 1988 Piper Alpha disaster has been described as one of the worst industrial accidents of its kind. While it was a tragedy of horrific proportions, the incident did spark some significant positive ...

Godzilla was born in the era of Japan's post-war grief, but the enormous monstrosity has come a long way since then.

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, ...

Unlike crocodiles, alligators are one of only two “true alligator” species in the Alligatoridae family – the American ...

The legendary Fimbulwinter that preludes Ragnarök may have been inspired by a series of harsh years that took place after 536 ...