Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, ...

From having a permanent lava lake that stays red-hot in winter, to spewing out thousands of dollars’ worth of gold daily, ...

Hiding in a museum collection lies what may be the world’s oldest known cannabis plant fossil. Dated to the Lower Eocene – a ...

Neanderthals had a PR disaster in the century after their discovery in 1856. Up until fairly recently, they were dismissed as ...

Bizarrely – or maybe not, considering what can be a Guinness World Record these days – there is even a world record for the ...

An international team of researchers reports the result of an incredible experiment performed on Mars. It had never been done ...

Japan’s intense corporate culture is so draining and competitive that a term has emerged to describe "death by overwork": ...

The apparent absence of gravity affects both the body and mind in profound ways; new research shows that astronauts' minds ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), responsible for the fact that Britain and Scandinavia are habitable, ...

Collaboration that made precise measurement of the g-2 value honored with $3 million from the Breakthrough Prize in ...

It’s not at horror film levels, but the illicit drugs we excrete probably affect fish and the ecosystem at large.

Almost seven decades of humans in space, plus over 25 years of continuous habitation, have shown us how incredibly adaptable ...