“Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy… and walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus s

A same-sex gentoo penguin couple has welcomed the birth of their first baby, er, chick, together, Australia’s Sea Life Sydney Aquarium announced On October 25, 2018. Dads Sphen and Magic, a couple known as “Sphengic,” were given an egg that they incubated and protected for nearly five weeks in their

Venice has battled rising water levels since the fifth century. But today, the water seems to be winning. Several factors, both natural and man-made, cause Venice to flood about 100 times a year — usually from October until late winter — a phenomenon called the acqua alta.

The Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station 27 hours after launching into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast. A new generation of space flight starts now with the arrival of @SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to the @Space_Station. Congratulation

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday a monumental milestone in nuclear fusion research: a "net energy gain" was achieved for the first time in history by scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called it "one of the most...

In every female kobudai... is a male in waiting. Animals in the genus Semicossyphus belong to the wrasse family, or the Labridae. Other members of the family and some fish in other families can also change their gender. They develop the reproductive organs, external features, and behavior of the op...

Color Scope is a series that explores our perception of color, it's use across cultures and other curiosities. Each month we examine a new color. Written and narrated by Dr. James Fox. Blue eyes are in fact pale brown. As light enters a 'blue' eye, it is scattered to create a blue hue, there is no a

Altocumulus Standing Lenticular Clouds: When sufficient moisture is present above mountain-top level, ACSL clouds develop within the crest of these mountain waves where the air is rising. ACSL clouds are continually developing and dissipating in the vicinity of the wave's crest and immediately dow...

Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 70 million people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 35 million people have died of HIV. Globally, 36.7 million [30.8–42.9 million] people were living with HIV at the end of 2016. An estimated 0.8% [0.7-0.9%] of adults aged 15–49 years worl

Over the next four years, Saudi Arabia is set to spend a whopping $500 billion dollars to build a futuristic city, 17 times bigger than London and 33 times bigger than New York City. The goal is to build an innovation hub and tourist destination to lead the world in smart city technology and clean e