A woman 'born into the circus' who took to the ring aged just SEVEN - and is now a circus director leading her own shows. Kourtney Pavlov, 28, who lives in Dublin, Ireland, was taught circus skills ...

A whopping 60-80% of the public pee in the shower, polls suggest, but medics are warning people to stop doing it due to a ...

The NASA livestream had just confirmed the wheeled robot was alive and well and ready to start doing science! We cheered and hugged and imagined a future where our solar system would be full of ...

Sethuraman Panchanathan, the Indian-origin Director of the National Science Foundation, resigned amid alleged pressure from the Trump administration to cut the NSF's budget and staff. Frustration ...

In findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers said the caterpillar "boasts an unprecedented and macabre practice of decorating its portable larval home with the body parts of ...

Thales of Miletus (considered to be the first scientist in the Western world) pondered on the cause of static electricity, and the electric prowess of eels inspired Alessandro Volta to invent the ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant icy objects in space beyond Neptune, offering a deeper understanding of ...

We explain the administration’s cuts to research. By Alan Burdick I’m an editor and occasional reporter of health and science news. Late yesterday, Sethuraman Panchanathan, whom President ...

By Christina Jewett Federal health officials have reversed the decision to fire a few dozen scientists at the Food and Drug Administration’s food-safety labs, and say they are conducting a ...

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Physicists have built the first ever black hole bomb, a long-theorised phenomenon where energy is boosted by a black hole and trapped by surrounding mirrors until an explosion occurs. Thankfully ...