Beachgoers at Bingil Bay on the east coast of Australia got a shock on Halloween as an ominous, dark shape splashed about in the water.Onlookers initially thought it was a shark's fin...
In a spectacular discovery, scientists have detected aurora-like emission in the atmosphere of the Sun.At an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles) above a burgeoning sunspot growing in the solar photosphere,...
If you can get your hands on a telescope, there are few sights more spectacular than the magnificent ringed planet – Saturn.Currently, Saturn is clearly visible in the evening sky, at its...
A new study on language learning has revealed the emergence of specific words to distinguish 'blue' from 'green' was a consequence of learning a second language.There's a lot of variation in the...
For a while, limitations in technology meant that animators and researchers were only capable of creating human-like faces which seemed a little "off".Films like 2004's The Polar Express made some viewers uneasy...
Scientists in China have announced the birth of a primate like no other, with eyes that shined green and fingertips that glowed yellow – and those were just the observable features.Beneath the...
If you've found the superconductor highs and lows of the past year to be exhausting, you are not alone.The field has been plagued by a series of astonishing claims followed by skepticism,...
Earth's boreal forests circle our planet's far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic's treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband...
