Marine scientists have revealed how they can track whale movement through the ocean using spare fibre optic cables to eavesdrop on them. Individual hydrophones, or underwater microphones, had previously been…
Stone Age farmers in southern France were fighting mice and insects feasting on their supplies 4,000 years ago, a new study has revealed. An international team of archaeologists led by…
A superwasp able to produce 1,000 offspring is threatening vast forests in North America's, a new study has revealed. The Sirex woodwasp lays its eggs on pine trees in a…
Prehistoric dinosaur birds preferred to snack on insects instead of fish, a new study has revealed. It had been believed that the 120 million-year-old Longipterygidae family's long beaks with sharp…
Scientists have revealed that acorns and rust could be perfect green substitutes for tie-dying cotton clothes. Although many kits are available for people to brighten up their clothes with colourful…
Man's Neanderthal ancestors used to escape warm summers to chill out in the icy climates of northern territories , a new study has revealed. Scientists have discovered that Neanderthals showed…
A zoo has revealed a pair of adorable pygmy slow loris twins as they cling to their mother for comfort. The two babies - the second set of twins for…
Armoured knights used bizarre upturned codpieces to attract woman at parties, a new exhibition of medieval clothing has revealed. And the fashion was often adopted by bold, 'gender-fluid' noblewomen to…
People are eating the equivalent of one credit card every week in their diet, a new study into the effects of plastic particles on human health has revealed. The particles…
Fans of the novel 'Perfume' by German author Patrick Sueskind will be able to experience some of the pongs and stenches of the 18th-century world he described, after scientists revealed…