Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...

The Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere, and clouds can no longer keep the balance.

An unusual stone circle that's likely a tomb is providing archaeologists with more information about life in Roman Bavaria.

Physicists have uncovered the fascinating world of “rotating crystals” — solids made of spinning particles that behave in ...

Surprising science stories, from the secrets within bird poop to a new dino discovery. Why scientists are studying bird poop, the world’s fastest backflip and all about the microbes living in your ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...