Science
NASA astronaut Suni Williams sends Happy Diwali wi...
As millions of people around the world celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, NASA astronau...
'Interstellar' fireballs likely came from within o...
The imprecision in the measurements of claimed interstellar fireballs means it is highly likely they...
There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anyt...
Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits o...
World's largest tree is also among the oldest livi...
DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their root...
Explore Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa in NASA vi...
Thanks to images from various NASA spacecraft, we can get an up-close look at the Jupiter ocean moon...
Perseverance rover watches 'googly eye' solar ecli...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a 'googly eye' solar eclipse on Sept. 30 as the planet...
One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written w...
Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published since ChatGPT's rel...
November's new moon makes a close pass to Venus
The new moon of November 2024 occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass...
Small moon of Uranus may have once had a subsurfac...
Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that s...
Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corn...
Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter phot...
The best new science fiction books of November 202...
From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has ple...
Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as Ca...
In support of their AI ambitions, tech companies are rapidly expanding US data centres, and this gro...
Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, bu...
The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its prob...
Earth sure looks spooky in these 'hyperspectral' i...
These strange shots of Earth are a Halloween treat.
India targets 2028 for Chandrayaan-4 sample-return...
India is eyeing a 2028 launch for its Chandrayaan-4 moon sample-return mission, followed by an uncre...
Stare into the 'blood-soaked eyes' of 2 spooky gal...
Two of the world's most powerful space telescopes have spied a spooky pair of galaxies in deep space...
War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK peopl...
People conceived during the UK's 1940s and 50s sugar rationing have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes ...
'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 5 episode 3: Why a...
"Star Trek" has played around with swarms of microscopic robots before, but never quite like this.
Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishin...
Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economi...
Dark Wolf Nebula shows off a howling good view in ...
Halloween is here, and there is no better way to celebrate than with a blood-curdling image of the D...
North Korea launches intercontinental ballistic mi...
North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday (July 12), shortly after c...
Dark matter might live in a dense haze around stel...
The extreme qualities of neutron stars could mean these dead stellar remnants gather dense clouds of...
Fight space ghosts as an astronaut cat in spooky H...
Celebrate Halloween with a cosmic new Google Doodle, featuring an astronaut cat vanquishing creepy c...
Comets, supermoon, northern lights, oh my! Amazing...
A geomagnetic storm, the largest supermoon of the year, a comet and an eerie fireball were among the...
The Lego Black Panther building set is over $100 o...
The near-3000 piece Lego Black Panther building set is over $100 off ahead of Black Friday and is on...
A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones fr...
Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century ce...
Happy Dark Matter Day! Meet the usual — and unusua...
Dark matter makes up 85% of the stuff in the cosmos, but scientists have no idea what it is. On Dark...
Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibr...
An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by a smartphone's spea...
Will China return Mars samples to Earth before the...
China has moved up its timeline for bringing Mars samples to Earth, aiming to do so as early as 2028...
Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete ...
The infinite monkey theorem states that illiterate primates could write great literature with enough...
Simple fix could make the census more accurate but...
The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep personal information priva...
Simple fix could make US census more accurate but ...
The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep personal information priva...
