SCIENCE

Sharks usually practice multiple paternity, where a litter of pups have several fathers. But tiger sharks seem to be "genetically monogamous", which threatens their sustainability.

The Y chromosome is fragile. Are we witnessing the slow demise of men? The women seem to be doing just fine with X chromosome, after all. What solution are there?

The afterglow from the massive collision has continued to brighten up since August 2017.

Three people were killed in Belgium and the Netherlands, and at least eight people died in Germany as powerful winds ripped roofs off buildings, toppled trees and blew trucks off the road.

Romy McCloskey used her costume designing skills to replace the 3-day-old butterfly's damaged wing.

Norwegian Air Dreamliner breaks record for subsonic transatlantic crossing from JFK to Gatwick in just over five hours.

Current instruments designed to search for alien life tend to be relatively large, heavy and power-hungry. In addition, they can only detect indirect biological signatures.

Rare spectacle above Darwin is result of ice crystals in sky bending sun's rays so that they appear iridescent.

Activists on the 1,600-hectare site near the village of Notre Dame des Landes say they have developed it into a utopia.

New study shows that people who feel weatlhy tend to go for flings rather than committed relationships. But people who are fearful (mostly women) will go for long-term things.

Skilled builders carved massive terrace walls into a rocky headland on the Greek island of Keros, creating what looks like a man-made stepped pyramid.

Offspring of these GMO species literally explode, killing off any unchecked species from growing in the wild.

A new study based on data from the Cassini spacecraft reveals that Titan's seas lie at an average elevation, like Earth's oceans.

Space junk is a serious enough issue for spacefaring countries to want to look for unconventional methods to clean it up.

Robot scientist Eve helps University of Cambridge researchers in breakthrough discovery that puts bathroom staple into fight against killer disease.

Temperatures at the Australian Open have reached 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) with reports of 69 degrees (156F) being measured on the court surface.

In 2015, some 200,000 saiga antelopes, which is 62% of the global population, living in Kazakhstan died in a matter of three weeks.

Single-use plastics that take five seconds to produce but stays on Earth for 500 years will be targeted, says EU diplomat.

It is unlikely that we will achieve a best case scenario, but it also unlikely that the Earth will become too hot to live in.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology says the lava flow is not because of an eruption, but predicts that one could take place in the next few days.

A new research claims that microwaves in the EU emit more co2 than 6.8 million cars and consume more electricity than three large gas power plants.

The milliDelta is a miniaturised version of Delta robots deployed in many industrial processes.

Many common items are unexpected sources of microplastics, which are devastating the world's oceans.

In two weeks' time, a kilometre-wide space rock will skim past the Earth at speeds of around 67,000mph.

Conflicts of interests can be beneficial to primates, as they push them to gather more info about other primates' abilities and their surroundings, making decisions more accurate.

A team of archaeologists unearthed limestone wall segments from the fortress during restoration works on a 15th century townhouse.

While getting stranded in a blizzard is nobody's idea of fun, you can never have too many slow-motion videos of dogs jumping to catch snowballs.

All species showed blue, previously invisible patterns on the head, some even over the whole body, a scientist noted.

Last year, archaeologists discovered a tomb suspected to be the resting place of King Tutankhamun's wife Ankhesenamun.