The consequences will be catastrophic. For the Antarctic ice sheet to melt almost completely, a rise in average global ...

“The Big Bang Theory” became one of the most popular American comedies in China. But in 2014, the State Administration of ...

The human nose is very sensitive to geosmin and can detect it at a concentration of five molecules per trillion. And ...

It's time to learn what happened to the contents of chamber pots in the Dark Ages and whether Europeans really considered ...

The Toba catastrophe was an eruption of the supervolcano of the same name that occurred between 77,000 and 69,000 years ago in modern-day Indonesia. Although the exact date is unknown, studies of ...

In the worldview of the Aztecs, who lived in Central Mexico from the 14th to 16th centuries, the history of the world was a ...

Jealousy was long considered a uniquely human emotion, but it turns out that animals may experience something similar.

Even rat poison has healing properties. Warfarin, now widely used as a blood thinner for stroke and clot prevention, was ...

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, scientists have identified a new species of miniature orange frogs belonging to the genus ...

Between 1347 and 1353, it claimed the lives of millions of people.