Mineralized “structures” discovered in the bone were the fossilized remains of red blood cells, according to a recent study. Other experts aren’t so sure.

Experts from Action on Salt & Sugar have revealed the popular breakfast spreads that contain dangerous amounts of sugar.

“Brandons Beach Barbados” drew an estimated 3,600 Google searches a month in the United States, 50% more than either Accra Beach or Carlisle Bay, its nearest rivals. In the UK and Canada, Accra took first place. Yet the UK and the US recorded the same number of monthly searches for Accra, at 2,400 apiece. What set the US results apart was the strength of interest in Brandons. The figures come from Beaches of Barbados, an independent island guide that analysed Google Keyword Planner estimates for the same 49 beach and bay terms in each market between October 2025 and September 2026. Each term included the word “Barbados”.

NASA reveals new X-70 aircraft with 45,000-foot ceilingNASA has announced a new X-plane without showing you the real thing. What you get is a set of numbers, a promise and one artist's impression.The X-70 Fractal was introduced by NASA on Wednesday during the UP Summit in Kennedy Space Center. It...

Ballistic and blood spatter analysis are grounded in science. But its practitioners regularly make conclusions in court that are far beyond what their own empirical evidence supports, according to new research — while lawyers and judges don’t challenge those conclusions enough.

Humanoid robots represent the next frontier for Pudu Robotics, according to founder and CEO Felix Zhang Tao, as the global commercial robotics leader takes on Elon Musk’s Tesla in the growing sector and explores manufacturing in Europe, its largest overseas market. “It’s definitely a competitor, but a long-term one,” Zhang told the South China Morning Post in a recent interview, adding that Tesla was a “very good” rival whose high profile had driven innovation and broadened market awareness in...

A colourful new map that paints a not-so-rosy global picture of what's putting freshwater species at risk could help conservationists focus on threats and species most urgently in need of support.

Researchers from McGill University have found many of the same vocal patterns that appear in bird species — including small pitch intervals and phrase elongation — are also present in human song and speech.