During the Second World War, the British Royal Navy experimented with the idea of using ice reinforced with wood pulp to build an aircraft carrier. The composite material, known as Pykrete, was ...

There's another notable first in the field of quantum physics to report on, and it's all to do with electron spin: the tiny, built-in magnetism of these particles, as if each one is carrying a ...

We Homo sapiens are pretty damn proud of our tool-making prowess. From smartphones to the humble-yet-mighty wheel, our ability to craft objects to help us attain our goals is something that we've ...

Scientists are continuing to look for ways to replace sugar in our diets. As great as it makes food taste, we know it's not great for our health, and questions have been raised over the impacts of ...

Plant-based diets are associated with many long-term health benefits, but for older adults, there may be a potential downside. Eating a strictly vegetarian diet may make it harder to protect muscle ...

The cosmos wavers between predictable stability and wild chaos, which troubles our sense-seeking brains. In our local Solar abode, the stability of the planets "is the question around which celestial ...

Before human explorers came along, the Seychelles archipelago was a haven for animals. The islands' relatively peaceful history, prior to the Age of Exploration, is written into the DNA of the ...

If you've ever lived with an orange cat, you already know they're built different. It turns out, genetically speaking, they really are. Orange fur is one of the most recognizable traits in the feline ...

The time-keeping offered by your watch or phone may be good enough for day-to-day life, but scientists are much more ambitious in terms of precision, and use atomic clocks to measure slices of time as ...

Psychopathy is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and it's not an official diagnosis any psychiatrist or psychologist will give. But the term is still widely used ...

When you start a medication and notice something different about your body, a question can follow: Is the drug responsible? Changes to your nails might prompt that question, too. In a new study, ...