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

I n a world first, Chinese scientists have been able to find a satellite using an infrared laser during the daytime. The ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

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 ...

We could be saying goodbye to long-planned space missions, new weather satellites, and crucial life-saving treatments.

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

A cosmic "bone" at the heart of the Milky Way appears to be fractured. Looking at the break, astronomers found a radio source.

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 ...

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 ...

Science has become an important part of our society, and therefore, the policy-making world as well. It provides decision ...