A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The newly discovered species of single-celled organism can divide and reproduce ...

Over the past few months, the ESA’s Rosetta orbiter has been feeding us valuable data on comets: where they come from, what they’re made of, how they work, and so on. But its time is nearly at an end, ...

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining ...

Technology has always shaped architecture. The Romans built an empire on the back of the arch, while paving their roads in concrete. But the computer, which has already transformed architecture since ...

Scientists have used high pressure and high temperature experiments to recreate an unusually complex form of nitrogen in the lab for the first time. An unusually complex form of one of the most ...

One day when I came in to the office, my air conditioning unit was making a weird rattling sound. At first, I was slightly annoyed, but then I chose to ignore it and get to work. In another 30 minutes ...

A taxpayer, like the Internal Revenue Service, may argue that the form of a transaction is different from its substance, and that the substance should govern the tax consequences of the transaction.