Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

The Yangtze finless porpoise is so revered that poets have been writing about it for more than a millennium, but that love ...

We enjoy relaxing activities, and one way of measuring how relaxed (or not) we’re feeling is through taking cortisol samples.

This question actually causes a lot of concern for people living with this autoimmune disease, but a new, small study offers ...

According to the unknown author, dog’s milk "doth cause a woman to be delivered of her childe before tyme" (read: you risk premature birth by eating Fido’s fermented milk). Camel, mare, and ass milk ...

U S health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has recently made a pretty bold – and misleading – claim about the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, stating that it contains “a lot of aborted fetus ...

And ironically, for a question often known as “algebra’s oldest challenge”, it all started with a denial that would have made ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from onboard Apollo 17 while headed to the Moon. This was the first time that an ...

One of the largest structures in the sky, as seen from our perspective, has only just been discovered. It’s an enormous cloud ...

A new caged drone has been developed that can trigger lightning strikes and can safely redirect the electricity.

Even compared to chimpanzees, our closest relatives, our wounds are slow to recover – but it could be the outcome of us ...

“Most mammals have a bone in their penis, but you will almost never see a penis bone on display, at least in a UK or European ...