Unfortunately, stories of animals becoming endangered are way more common than the reverse, but perhaps this makes it even more...

When you're listening to music, it's not just your ears that are reacting to it, your eyes feel it too.

The collapse of two dams at a Brazilian mine spells an absolute catastrophe, with effects that could haunt Brazil for...

It's still not clear why this happened, but one of the most likely explanations is a rare phenomenon, a "contagious"...

A single energy drink can alter your health significantly, and consuming energy drinks regularly can be absolutely devastating.

As anyone who's visited a big city knows, few things are more annoying than being stuck behind meandering tourists when...

The Scottish government announced that it approved the construction of UK's first, and the world's largest floating offshore wind farm.

It was exciting at first when Russia announced that six female astronauts would live in a spacecraft in Moscow for...

Sprocket the cat has been fitted with an improvised 3D printed leg brace which has a good chance of saving his...

When the Scottish government introduced a 5 pence tax for plastic bags, they were expecting a significant reduction, but even...

A team of students in Canada invented a cheap, portable cooling device that doesn't need any electricity.

Covering your body up with sunscreen may protect you against the Sun, but it's also threatening the world's coral reefs,...

The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority recently unveiled a $470 million waste-to-energy system that converts solid sludge (we...

By now, it's almost a statistical certainty: in January 2016, we will say that 2015 was the warmest year on...

Sure, we've all heard of Egypt's pyramids, but have you heard of Sudan's pyramids? Well, you really should have -...

Drivers and passengers who light one up while kids are in the car now face fines in England in Wales,...

A new study conducted on medical consumption of cannabis came up with some good news, and some bad news: for...

California is currently experiencing its worst drought in over a millennium. Trillions of gallons of underground waters were lost in...

New research suggests that simply fidgeting around could counter some of the effects of sitting down for too long.

Americans are sending much more trash to landfills than federal agencies estimated - twice as much, according to a new...

Usually, we have to use all sorts of disinfectants, soaps and detergents to scrub away smudge, be it sticky, oozy...

Eight trillion microbeads are polluting the US waters every day. As the plastic beads are very small, they breach through...

After years of analyzing and reclassifying some 2.3 million species, a group of international researchers from eleven institutions were able...

The Netherlands has joined the list of European countries that have banned wild animals from their circuses. The Netherlands will...

Bee numbers have been dropping at alarming rates, and the growing consensus seem to be that only limiting pesticide use...

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who religiously make their bed every day in cleanliness and...

A French court upheld on Thursday a 2012 ruling in which Monsanto was found guilty of chemical poisoning of a...

Did you notice something strange about this July? It was hot! Sure, July is supposed to be hot (at least...

It's big, it's beautiful... and it reeks. Amorphophallus titanum, more commonly known as the corpse flower, is the flowering plant with the...

The Komodo Dragon Chilli doesn't look like much; it's pretty small, reddish (but not very bright) and a bit shriveled; but this...

A female gray wolf and a male brown bear were spotted every day for ten consecutive days, spending time together,...

Green tea is one of those things that's really healthy for you, but its health benefits have been greatly exaggerated;...

Food waste is a growing problem throughout the world; on one hand, we've got so many people starving or living...

Smoking is bad. We're way past the point of discussing that one; it's bad for your health, it's bad for...

I shouldn't have to write this - taking a bath in wine should intuitively seem like a very bad idea;...

Nabire was a 31-year-old Northern White Rhino from the Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic. She suffered from uterine...

Image via Twitter User San Kaido After a twitter user and photographer from a city 110 km from Fukushima posted photos...

Dolphins in European waters are struggling to reproduce because of the chemical pollution that lingers in their bodies for a...

We're more used to whales washing up ashore, but sharks also do it sometimes. This juvenile shark was apparently trying...

We'll take a look at the Man of War and see what you should do to stay safe on the...

A new study has found that monarch butterfly populations have went down at alarming rates in the past couple of...

Love and Marriage Christophe Haubursin/Vox In a landmark decision, the US supreme court overruled 26 states and cracked down on...

Fruits and vegetables - they're tasty and they're healthy... but do you know what they really are? Hank Green, which...

Among the best thing about being a biologist is you get to name things when you discover it. Now, a...

Ocean acidification, one of the often ignored dangers associated with climate change is becoming increasingly worrying. As our climate becomes...

Geoscientists have finally unraveled one of Greenland's long-standing mysteries: how billions of gallons of water can drain in a matter...

The 2011 Japan tsunami was so massive that even today, debris from it keeps washing up in Washington - and...

A lab from the University of Miami will be able to reproduce hurricane conditions on demand, empowering researchers to study...

A female Yangtze giant softshell turtle (quite possibly the last female of her species) has been given another chance to...

When citizens stop complying with the laws, it's generally a bad thing - laws are there for a reason, and...