A researcher in Canada has discovered the oldest non-marine crab ever which also happens to be the most complete fossil of a crab ever discovered because it was trapped in…
A Canadian scientist has discovered a new, "hyperparasitic" wasp in the Middle East whose larvae burrow into caterpillars and can only emerge as a fully-grown wasp if it finds another…
A new species of frog that lays its tadpoles inside a carnivorous plant which then feeds on the tadpole droppings has recently been discovered by an international team of scientists…
The scientist who reported the strong possibility that prehistoric Megalodon shark babies were cannibals that would eat their siblings in the womb to make sure they were bigger and stronger…
A Liverpool University scientist has created a programme which calculates a person’s chances of dying from a coronavirus infection. The program that crunched big data based on COVID-19 deaths from…
A French scientist says he has found an effective treatment for the coronavirus with "spectacular results" showing that “we know how to cure the illness". The treatment named Plaquenil is…
The front cover of this week's New Scientist is an article about perfection, and inside it warns that we are now experiencing an "epidemic of perfectionism" which the magazine writers…
A French scientist has claimed that men are more intelligent than women because they have bigger brains. This week is International Women's Week, with International Women's Day on 8th March…
Scientists are investigating after thousands of cuttlefish washed up on the beaches of a popular tourist resort. Experts are trying to work out why the cuttlefish washed up on a…
Scientists using airborne laser scanning technology to map a forest as part of a flood prevention scheme were amazed to discover a huge estate from the time of Christ hidden…