Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...

Occam’s razor is a principle often attributed to 14th - century friar William of Ockham that says that if you have two ...

Millions of people may experience accelerated ageing as climate change drives more frequent and intense hot weather ...

Scientists have long and studiously avoided claiming that other animals have language. Now, using the power of AI, they are ...

Microbes found buried deep in Siberian permafrost may be able to survive over extremely long timescales using protein repair ...

Electronic devices that dissolve in water could make it easier to create and recycle technology prototypes – and they could ...

In 2020, the world produced more than enough calories to feed the global population, but only half of those calories reached ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single ...

Photographic memory is the ability to recall a past scene in detail with great accuracy – just like a photograph. Although ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago ...

A 1989 experiment offered the promise of nuclear fusion without the need for high temperatures, but this "cold fusion" was ...