Parasitic wasp with a giant head has been discovered and it's the stuff of nightmares ...

Given his "awful upbringing", it's no wonder the American president became such a destructive person, says Robert Sapolsky.

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over assorted beverages to bring you the latest news, mystery ...

A new book from Rebecca Solnit, promising to bring us hope in these “difficult times”, is among our pick of popular science titles out this month – along with a guide on how to talk to AI, and a look ...

Everything from doom scrolling on our constantly pinging phones to refined sugar is designed to manipulate our biological instincts – and it’s making us ill. Bestselling author and scientist Nicklas B ...

The galaxy could be an example of a hypothetical "dark galaxy" that astronomers have been searching for for decades.

Plant biologist Molly Edwards started a science communication business called Science IRL to showcase the exciting and curious side of science.

Library Futures Academy, an open-source retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline is being developed using historic newspapers held in the archives. This combined with optical character ...

There’s been an increase in hospitalisations and in wastewater detections, and it’s expected to last another month or two.

Long believed to be a single species hopping along stream banks across Borneo, a common rainforest frog is revealing itself to be several different species. It’s also leaving scientists with questions ...

On a similar note, drinking hot water or hot soup can help break up nasal congestion, both Bhuyan and Lindsay-Adler add. One seminal 1978 study demonstrated that sipping warm soup or hot water can ...