On the 50th anniversary of the iconic movie, IFLScience chats with activist Wendy Benchley (wife of Jaws author Peter Benchley) and marine scientist Dr Lydia Koehler to discuss the film’s impact, ...

T he Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, is producing more toxic hydrogen sulfide gas than previously thought, according ...

A collection of scientific papers from English mathematician, codebreaker, and father of computer science, Alan Turing, has sold for £465,400 (US$625,000) at auction after narrowly avoiding being ...

“We found that sharks follow what’s known as the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ almost perfectly,” explained Joel Gayford, a PhD ...

I n late 2026, a human-made object will reach a full light-day away from the Earth for the first time in human history.

C onstantly offloading cognitive tasks onto artificial intelligence (AI) may come at a cost to your brain. According to a new ...

The breakthrough double injection won’t be cheap in the US, although scientists argue it could (and should) be.

The team was inspired by bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice, revealing information about our climate hundreds of thousands of years in the past.

Likewise, Neanderthals may very well have been capable of symbolic numerical thought. Artifactual evidence for this comes ...

Unlike leaves, which have stomata for gas exchange, the skin of some fruits and bark is usually impermeable. That’s where lenticels come in. These tiny openings allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to pass ...

The question is not only how people survived there, but why, with potentially important answers for understanding ancient ...

A near-complete skull of a Denisovan, one of the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, has never been recovered – or so ...