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On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port city of Genoa would be maintained for his family "because from it I came and in it I was born".

The fierce debate over whether Homo sapiens was the first species to bury its dead is far from over.

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson - the actor who portrayed Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in the HBO series Game of Thrones - has shown superhuman strength on and off screen.

We've never seen anything quite like this.

You're introduced to someone and your attention catches on their eyes.

We may have a new way of protecting against COVID-19 that checks almost all the boxes: It's effective, it's affordable, it's easy to apply, it's already approved as safe for public use, it's available without prescription ...

Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought.

A giant explosion that lit up the sky didn't just rock the cosmos - it absolutely rattled our understanding of the Universe's most powerful outbursts.

Octopuses are mostly made up of sucker-studded arms, each one packed with muscles and nerves that enable them to engage with their environment in ways no other invertebrate has mastered.

She's six years old, lives in Brisbane and might just be one of the best resilience coaches on television.