Very quietly, and without any formal announcement, the Common Names Committee of the Entomological Society of America has decided to list termites in the same category as cockroaches. It seem weird to lump the two together, but it’s a move that scientists have been considering for nearly a century.

Neurologists studying the brains of nine patients as they died have found surprising information about what happens to your brain after it dies. According to the new study, death is marked by a final wave of electrical activity in our brains called “spreading depression.” This “spreading depression” is a final flurry of activity that occurs in the brain before it finally shuts down, according to the experts.

Dutch adventurer Wim Hof is known as “The Iceman” for good reason. Hof established several world records for prolonged resistance to cold exposure, an ability he attributes to a self-developed set of techniques of breathing and meditation — known as the Wim Hof Method — that have been covered by the BBC, CNN, National Geographic and other global media outlets. Yet, how his brain responds during cold exposure and what brain mechanisms may endow him with this resistance have not been studied — until now.

In March of 2016 the European Space Agency - in collaboration with Roscosmos - launched The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter sending it on its way to the mysterious red planet that orbits our Sun, Mars. Its mission? To look for signs of life on the Red Giant that has held the interest of astronomers for centuries since first being discovered in the 17th century by Galileo Galilei.

Humans make huge use of marine vertebrates, but manta rays may pass the self-awareness test and other fish potentially could too. Ethically, where does that leave us?

In a paper published in 2016, researchers suggested that in the 1960s, the sugar industry paid scientists to obscure the relationship between sugar and heart disease, derailing the course of nutrition science and policy for years to come. Two researchers at Columbia University say that those claims are not backed by the historical evidence.

After examining the mitochondrial DNA of women from Sardinia, Lebanon and historical sites, researchers now believe that there was a migration of people between these two places which should help support historical theories of population mobility in ancient Mediterranean cultures.

China's brand new telescope is already picking out brand new pulsar candidates.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft successfully launched itself past Earth, heading to the Bennu asteroid where it will collect samples for scientific research.

The dwarf planet Haumea has been discovered to contain a ring around it.

Mercury experiences micro-meteoroid showers due to the planets orbit through an area where micrometeoroids are common.

Pluto’s jagged icy terrain has been revealed to consist of methane ice.

This new color-enhanced image taken by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft shows Jupiter’s captures one of the white ovals in the “String of Pearls.”

Newly discovered spiders in the Caribbean which have “smiley faces” are being named after famous figures like Leonardo DCaprio, Barrack Obama and Bernie Sanders.

Professor David Leigh has led a study to create molecular robots composed of CHON (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen) molecules.

Professor Insung Choi has invented a polyphenol nanospray to extend the shelf life of food, mainly fruit. This one will definitely have the conspiracy theorists talking.

Orbital ATK Credit: NASA Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket successfully launched from the Wallops Flight Facility and will deliver the Cygnus spacecraft to the ISS in order to resupply them. As another …

Food can be broken down into three macronutrients: fat, protein, and carbohydrates. Now, according to scientists at Oxford University and the National Inst