A high-sugar diet for humans can lead to diabetes, obesity and even cancer, but fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day. The team from University of California San Francisco set
Top researchers have cracked the 228-year-old mystery about the colours of the two planets which are furthest from the Sun and planet Earth. New research by top professors at the University of Oxford show that the distinct bluish appearance of Neptune, compared
A city in one of the most popular holiday hotspots in Spain is hoping for rain after recording an extremely warm Christmas period. Following an analysis of the average temperatures and rainfall across the past 12 months, the Spanish weather agency AEMET confirmed
Seals soak up the California sun: See the video A group of seals were seen sunbathing in Humboldt County, California. The seals were soaking up the sun at Calm Beach during what the National Weather Service warned was a day to practice
British scientists have achieved the “most important goal” in making life on Mars possible for humans – by using a material that had been regarded as useless. Using what was considered a waste product by NASA, a team of researchers have found
The “ghost population” of humans, as it has been described, are believed to have lived in Africa around half a million years ago. Their genes were spotted by scientists in modern-day humans, traces that turned up after researchers analysed genomes from West
Black holes are perhaps the strangest of all that is found in space. The almost invisible regions are parts of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light and other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape. Essentially, they suck
Scientists have discovered why some women, including the Princess of Wales, suffer from severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Mother-of-three Kate has been plagued by hyperemesis gravidarum, which is thought to affect up to three percent of pregnancies. The condition even led
A theory about time being “wobbly” has been regularly used in hit sci-fi TV show Doctor Who and now it may prove to be correct thanks to a major breakthrough. Two pillars of physics are fundamentally at odds. Quantum mechanics describes the
Scientists have been left stunned after a rare and extremely high-energy particle was spotted falling towards Earth. The cosmic ray has been named after the Japanese sun goddess, Amaterasu, and is one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, according to astrologists.