Scientists have long sought to find logical explanations for alleged hauntings. In 2003, for instance, University of ...

In this edition of Mint's climate newsletter, we discuss how India's summer heat and monsoon rains will be affected by ‘super ...

In 1988, a group of scientists investigated their lab after several unusual incidents and found a sub-perceptual explanation. A new experiment added evidence that sounds we cannot hear may be to blame ...

A study conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil reveals that tissues such as the tonsils and adenoids can serve as hiding places for the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold and ...

The platypus is so bizarre that it famously led early European scientists to suspect someone had stitched it together from ...

The muon mismatch was caused by calculation limits, not a new force. Improved methods bring theory and experiment into close ...

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

Hibernation can vary by species. Martin says some hibernators, such as ground squirrels, rewarm—or wake up from hibernation from internal heating, rather than with the help of warm weather. This ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have developed a method that reveals the cellular makeup of tissues that support metastatic cancer growth, which is the primary ...

In 1980, two US airmen reported an extraordinary encounter near a military base in the east of England. What really happened?