Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

When the stomach is full, how does the brain know to stop eating? Scientists long assumed the answer lies mainly with neurons ...

Your brain’s “stop eating” signal may come from an unexpected source. Researchers found that astrocytes—once thought to just support neurons—actually play a key role in controlling appetite. After a ...

Are we alone? From Trump’s push to release UFO files to new NASA missions, interest in alien life is back in the spotlight.

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg. This was Elephas ...

Usually sighted around Halloween, the octopus-like residents of Rigel 7 (e.g Kang and Kodos) have five tentacles (which they ...

Charlotte Tolley, 36, is a single mum-of-three, one of whom, Lucas, five, requires intense amounts of care. The tot was born ...

Nuacht Aoir has learned – exclusively – that President Donald Trump will release the “Report of the Newcomers” later today, ...

The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

Take a look at this Instagram post of a Burmese python swallowing a white-tailed deer and learn about the science behind the clip.

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it becomes activated, it will destroy your ...