In 1907, Duncan MacDougall of Haverhill, Massachusetts, decided to try and prove the existence of the soul. All he needed was some people willing to die under his supervision, and some dogs.

Once upon a time, the fishing town of Gansbaai on the South African coast was something of a mecca for shark-spotters – so ...

Researchers studying fruit flies discovered that nerve cells sensing limb motion are turned off when the insect moves, allowing the brain to switch between stabilizing posture and enabling dynamic ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Of course, the rest is history. Archimedes had a bath and the original Eureka moment, streaked naked down the street, and ...