Wine-lovers take note, scientists have found that it’s not only the vintage and type of grape that can affect the taste of your favourite tipple; the type of microbes present may play a role as well.
The news that the sabre-tooth cat became extinct despite the fact that it was ‘well-fed’ deepens the mystery of why they disappeared from America 12,000 years ago.
Upending the stereotypical image of the flat countryside of Flanders, a new low-energy house built by the Belgian design firm AST 77 mixes modernism and organic materials to blend into a steep, forested hillside near Rotselaar, Belgium.
Opposable thumbs: one of the features that separates us from other apes, a contributor to the tool use that's made us the dominant species on the planet. Makes you feel quite smug, right? Well, not so fast.
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that keep on working even while they're stretched up to eight times their original length.
Egyptologists say they believe they've established the truth about the death of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III 3,000 years ago. And, just as an ancient papyrus suggests, they say, conspirators murdered him by slitting his throat.
Almost 80 years after Einstein referred to quantum entanglement as ‘spooky action at a distance’, scientists have found a new form of entanglement involving three particles instead of just two.
