Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. The sub has been devised to carry large payloads over long ...

We live in (or at least, perceive, with various branches of string theory including up to 26 dimensions) a universe with three dimensions (plus time), and there are reasons to suspect why we find ...

Long before governments had the power to ping citizens on their smartphones, the pre-Hispanic inhabitants of New Mexico’s ...

The Earth's magnetic field has changed direction many times over millions of years, sometimes accompanied by temporary ...

Holly is a graduate medical biochemist with an enthusiasm for making science interesting, fun and accessible. This suggests ...

The findings come from NASA’s Curiosity, which is investigating Gale Crater, the site of an ancient lake. Researchers ...

A wild Sumatran orangutan has been seen chewing the leaves of the Akar Kuning plant and applying the juice to a wound on his ...

Bird flu seems to be perennially in the news at the moment, and with more and more species succumbing to the virus, concern ...

You move with the Earth because of your inertia, or the tendency for objects in motion to remain in motion in a straight line at the same velocity unless another force acts upon them. This is why when ...

Say hello to the potato bug. These giant flightless insects are also known as Jerusalem crickets, which is interesting ...

A new mRNA vaccine candidate for aggressive brain cancer has shown promise in a small clinical trial – but it was a clinical ...

Scientists in Japan say they have successfully transplanted kidney tissue between rat fetuses while they were still in the ...