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 ...

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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Yosemite National Park recently announced that the 2026 Horsetail Fall viewing period is projected to last from February 10 to 26, 2026. The natural light show lasts for just a few minutes when the ...

These dips in the gravitational field are formally known as gravity anomalies, but they're more commonly called “gravity holes". The largest is found in the middle of the Indian Ocean, spanning over 3 ...

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

Strokes, tumors, and other injuries can trigger a deep culinary obsession.