Wollemi pines ( Wollemia nobilis) are part of the Araucariaceae family, which includes monkey puzzle trees. They are ...

A cosmic "bone" at the heart of the Milky Way appears to be fractured. Looking at the break, astronomers found a radio source.

We could be saying goodbye to long-planned space missions, new weather satellites, and crucial life-saving treatments.

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

The Yangtze finless porpoise is so revered that poets have been writing about it for more than a millennium, but that love ...

We enjoy relaxing activities, and one way of measuring how relaxed (or not) we’re feeling is through taking cortisol samples.

According to the unknown author, dog’s milk "doth cause a woman to be delivered of her childe before tyme" (read: you risk premature birth by eating Fido’s fermented milk). Camel, mare, and ass milk ...

U S health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has recently made a pretty bold – and misleading – claim about the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, stating that it contains “a lot of aborted fetus ...

And ironically, for a question often known as “algebra’s oldest challenge”, it all started with a denial that would have made ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from onboard Apollo 17 while headed to the Moon. This was the first time that an ...

One of the largest structures in the sky, as seen from our perspective, has only just been discovered. It’s an enormous cloud ...