Located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Taklamakan Desert is one of the driest places on Earth ...

Reminding someone who has come to rely on a chatbot that they are not human may push them into what's known as the ...

Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...

"The longest sediment cores previously drilled under an ice sheet are less than ten metres. We exceeded our target of 200 ...

It’s not that rare for the Moon to pass in front of Mercury, but it seldom happens when it is this easy to watch.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established in 1946 to prevent the collapse of several species that had been ...

“The definition of the solar maximum is when the sunspot number is at its highest,” Dr. Rachel Howe, a solar physicist at the University of Birmingham, UK, told IFLScience. “At the same time, you tend ...

The concentrations of lead and other toxic elements exceed FAO limits for children and could pose long term health issues.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in ...

New observations of the Moon have now found small mare ridges (SMRs), faults located in the lunar maria, the dark basalt plains of the Moon. These are what we normally call seas, such as the Sea of ...

As it turns out, the average individual releases 32 bum ghosts per day, although the researchers noted a wild degree of variation between the most and least active farters. At the bottom end, some ...

In their latest forecasts, the NOAA’s Climate Prediction Service (CPS) states there’s a 50 to 60 percent chance of El Niño ...