“Particles like these could recreate mechanical machines on a nanoscale” In 1959, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman talked to a gathering of his peers from the Amer ...

JO ELPHICK Jo is an academic lawyer and lecturer specialising in criminal law and forensics. She is also the author of a number of true crime books. MIKE JENNINGS Mike is a freelan ...

Researchers have developed a way to reverse the ageing process in skin cells, turning back the biological clock by about 30 years. De-ageing cells has become increasingly common in ...

Scientists have discovered a great white shark social club in the clear blue waters of Guadalupe Island, off the western coast of Mexico. New research discovered that a group of ta ...

Researchers have analysed tens of thousands of water samples from around the globe hunting for RNA viruses, those that use RNA as their genetic material. These viruses are understu ...

The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth’s crust, a fist-sized piece of black glass, was discovered in 2011 and was formed in temperatures reaching 2,370 degrees Celsius – hot ...

A man’s itchy eye was due to more than a dozen fly larvae that were squirming around inside his peeper. The 53-year-old man, who lives in France, went to the emergency room after ...

Scientists have discovered a brand-new type of cell hiding inside the delicate, branching passageways of human lungs. The newfound cells play a vital role in keeping the respirator ...

A fireball that blazed over Papua New Guinea in 2014 was a fast-moving object from another star system. The object, a small meteorite just 0.45 metres across, slammed into Earth’ ...

Before there were dinosaurs, there were trilobites brutally biting each other on the Cambrian seafloor. New research has revealed that these armoured predators didn’t only hunt s ...