Interestingly, a recent study found that people with higher intelligence tend to go through puberty earlier, but they also delay having children and have fewer children overall.
From a biological point of view, this appears contradictory, as…
Lurking in the shadows of our Solar System’s gas and ice giants are small, frozen moons. Some of these moons contain roiling liquid water oceans bound by a hard icy shell.
A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, has cracked the surface of…
A fifteen-year-old dubbed “Belgium’s little Einstein” has completed his PhD in quantum physics in what could be record time.
According to reporting from the Flemish television network VTM, Laurent Simons defended his thesis this week at the…
More than 2,000 years ago, pretty much every educated human knew the Earth was round. There are some pretty obvious clues, after all. If you travel south, you see stars and constellations you’ve never seen before (because they’re blocked by…
About 170 years ago, a bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried, or “cached”, near a…
A pioneering robotic system is set to revolutionise the painstaking task of reassembling
A history professor has discovered hidden markings on an ancient Roman cup, revealing secrets…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is phasing out research conducted on…
