Science
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular struct...
A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells – a...
AI can spot parasites in stool samples to help dia...
About 1.5 billion people worldwide carry a risk of conditions including malnutrition because of para...
A NASA spacecraft spotted something weird orbiting...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with a...
Monster star gains magnetic personality following ...
A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with an...
Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets
We can’t stir ordinary solids, but one research team now claims to have stirred an extraordinary qua...
A car-sized asteroid will pass really, really clos...
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the d...
'Star Wars: Tales of the Empire' sets surprise May...
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Before The Acolyte, Star Wars animation will return to our...
Gravitational waves reveal black hole and neutron ...
The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky...
Trains, planes and a total solar eclipse! Watching...
My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two anc...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew i...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyon...
How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the ...
The physicist Peter Higgs quietly revolutionised quantum field theory, then lived long enough to see...
Space weather can make it hard to predict satellit...
Satellites in low Earth orbit can be hundreds of miles off their expected trajectories when bad spac...
Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scie...
More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circul...
Top total solar eclipses to look out for over the ...
We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.
SpaceX to launch advanced weather satellite for US...
SpaceX will launch a mission for the U.S. Space Force this morning (April 11), sending aloft an adva...
Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may revea...
A small early-stage trial of the approach, which involves testing dozens of drug combinations on tho...
Japanese astronauts will join NASA moon landings i...
The first non-American to walk on the moon will be a Japanese astronaut. Two JAXA astronauts will fl...
Air pollution can make insects mate with the wrong...
Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones, and this can resul...
Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefa...
We don’t know what alien life might look like, but if other civilisations can colonise multiple worl...
Why Peter Higgs leaves a massive legacy in the fie...
On April 8, 2024, Peter Higgs passed away. Pioneering the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mark the...
See Jupiter close to a crescent moon (Mars near Sa...
Jupiter and a slim crescent moon are the stand-out night sky sight in the evening sky right now.
What happened when the moon 'turned itself inside ...
The moon underwent a reversal around 4.2 billion years ago, flipping itself "inside out" after a gia...
Watch mini humanoid robots showing off their footb...
These soccer-playing robots can respond faster than ones trained in a standard way because they impr...
Some of our favourite songs make us sad, which may...
Our favourite sad songs seem to become less enjoyable when we try to take the emotion out of them
Post-surgery infections may mainly be caused by sk...
The skin microbiome may be a bigger cause of post-operative wound infections than bacteria contamina...
Could these big expandable habitats help humanity ...
Max Space is building habitat modules that could expand to enormous sizes in space, giving humanity ...
US needs new space tech or it 'will lose,' Space F...
Space Force's Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman stressed the need for the U.S. to pa...
What it was like to chase totality in South Texas
Chasing eclipses in South Texas meant dealing with lots of hurdles, yes, but also lots of gratitude....
Prime Video's 'Fallout' launches into the post-apo...
Grab your Vault suit and a Nuka Cola for a sci-fi romp through the wasteland in "Fallout," Amazon Pr...
Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in...
To capture the clearest and most direct images of a “Wigner crystal”, a structure made entirely of e...
Fractal pattern identified at molecular scale in n...
An enzyme in a cyanobacterium can take the unusual form a triangle containing ever-smaller triangula...
How AI mathematicians might finally deliver human-...
Artificial intelligence is taking on some of the hardest problems in pure maths, arguably demonstrat...
China moving at 'breathtaking speed' in final fron...
China is ratcheting up its space capabilities at an impressive clip, with an eye toward potentially ...
Astronauts' photos capture April 8 solar eclipse f...
As bucket list items go, seeing a total solar eclipse from space might seem like a tall order. But o...
