The origins of the Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch, and the Nordic languages) have been the subject of debate for decades among linguists. Now geneticists are getting in on the action with ...

A group of horses is called a “herd,” unless they’ve been ritually sacrificed. Then they’re called a “spectral cavalcade.” The term comes from writings of the Greek historian Herodotus describing the ...

Ever wondered why a bad night’s sleep can leave you irritable, anxious or sad? Poor sleep affects our emotions, but its timing also plays a role. Our circadian rhythms are nearly 24-hour cycles that ...

In the early first century, a mighty king ruled the Atrebates tribe located in southern Britain: King Verica, son of Commius. As a client king of the Roman Empire, King Verica had a powerful ally in ...

The first rule of fight club is “you do not talk about fight club,” but the first rule of mouse fight club seems to be “publish your results in Nature.” A team of Princeton neuroscientists recently ...

High protein content has become a selling point on foods ranging from breakfast cereals to yoghurts. For anyone hoping to build muscle or stay strong as they age, choosing the product with the most ...

A quantum information scientist on the hunt for the elemental mediator of gravity and why AI can’t solve physics problems creatively ...

According to a team of botanists from Tel Aviv University who uncovered this odd phenomenon, the secret is in the way the plants receive information from light. Your light receptors are located on the ...

A University of Cambridge linguist has uncovered a treasure trove containing the earliest known recordings of Creole language and analyzed them for the first time in a study published in Language ...

The most abundant whale species in the waters off southwest Australia is a subspecies of the blue whale: the pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda). Yet, despite being more common than ...

Daylight Saving Time is now over, which means you probably enjoyed an extra hour of sleep over the weekend. Unfortunately, even a welcome disruption of your sleep cycle may be bad for your heart, at ...

Halloween seems like an appropriate time to let you know that zombies are real. Or at least zombie bacteria are, according to a timely new study published in Angewandte Chemie. A team of biologists ...