Spring is the time of year when my friends remember what a strange job I have, because a stripy insect has just appeared in ...

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Researchers off the coast of New Zealand caught a rare sight on camera - an octopus hitching a ride on the back of an ultra-fast shark species.

At the very smallest scales, our intuitive view of reality no longer applies. It's almost as if physics is fundamentally indecisive, a truth that gets harder to ignore as we zoom in on the ...

A quantum breakthrough in strange metals could unlock energy-efficient superconductors, revolutionizing power grids.

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It’s easy to spot hedgehogs in Alderney and not only because there are so many of them. More than half of the island’s prickly creatures are blonde. Their cream-coloured spines are the product of ...

A very strange marine life encounter caught on video left scientists baffled when it was first spotted in New Zealand waters in 2023. More than a fanciful shark-octopus hybrid featured in low ...