Researchers exploring Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered seven new species of frog-like leafhoppers. The tiny insects, named for their frog-shaped bodies and powerful jumping legs, are so ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws ...

Science in everyday conversation can feel distant— something conducted behind closed laboratory doors, far from big screens.

Authorities dated the footprints back to the early first century A.D. — the “time of Boudicca, Jesus and the height of the ...

Ian digs into a series of bizarre headline from the past week to explain why the pace of progress is starting to feel downright surreal.

What started as a routine cleaning job turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for Jennifer Dowker, a boat captain and ...

Roger Jackson — best known for being the voice of one of the genre’s most iconic villains, Scream’s Ghostface — will be ...

What began as a routine magnet fishing trip quickly turned into something far more mysterious. While searching a river near an abandoned bridge, the group pulled up a strange metal object that didn’t ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an ...

A blizzard is a real test of the social contract. Nature dumps 12 to 18 inches of inconvenience uniformly across an entire community and leaves it up to you and your neighbors to sort out the mess.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...