Science
Who is Rook, the Renaissance station's robot scien...
An explanation of the android characters of Ash and Rook in the "Alien" film universe.
NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings i...
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System successfully spread its "wings" in space.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket can return to flight, FAA...
SpaceX can resume flying its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ann...
No, NASA's DART asteroid impact probably won't spa...
Slower moving particles blasted out by the DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos could create meteor...
'Deadpool & Wolverine' has a sneaky Canadarm robot...
The iconic Canadarm space robot makes a brief appearance in "Deadpool & Wolverine," a film that ...
'Slingshot' is a surreal sci-fi head trip that que...
A review of Swedish director Michael Håfström’s psychological sci-fi thriller, "Slingshot"
Quantum holograms can send messages that disappear...
Entangled particles of light can transmit holographic images that can be selectively erased, allowin...
Why is the US military getting ready to launch new...
The US military has prioritised deploying high-altitude balloons that can carry out surveillance
Former U.S. Navy Seal Jonny Kim will be 1st Korean...
U.S. Navy lieutenant and NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly to th...
What were the Bell Riots in 'Star Trek: Deep Space...
As history catches up with a pivotal moment in the "Star Trek" timeline, we look back at the events ...
Generative AI creates playable version of Doom gam...
A neural network can recreate the classic computer game Doom despite using none of its code or graph...
The best 50s sci-fi movies
Explore the greatest sci-fi titles that emerged amidst rock, roll, and the Golden Age in our round-u...
NASA gives Intuitive Machines $117 million for 202...
Intuitive Machines, which aced the first-ever private moon landing earlier this year, just scored a ...
Does mpox cause lingering symptoms like long covid...
Amid rising cases of mpox in Central Africa, it is important to uncover whether this virus causes sy...
NASA's Perseverance rover begins ambitious ascent ...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has started off on its most ambitious ascent yet to the rim of Jezero...
Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that se...
‘Little red dot’ galaxies seen by JWST appear to be much more tightly packed with stars than other g...
NASA cuts 2 astronauts from SpaceX Crew-9 mission ...
NASA's Crew-9 mission now has only 2 astronauts instead of 4. The last-minute change gives room to r...
Ultracold quantum battery could be charged with qu...
Atoms tunnelling through a quantum battery could charge it and also keep it from losing energy, whic...
Boeing Starliner astronauts will spend at least 24...
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will spend at least eight consecutive months aboar...
'Doomed' comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS survives brush wi...
We provide the latest details on this comet, which might (or might not!) blossom into a bright naked...
Early galaxies weren't mystifyingly massive after ...
Black holes may be behind why the newborn universe appeared to possess more huge galaxies than scien...
Falling satellite will give clues to how objects b...
A chance to observe the high-speed re-entry of a falling satellite will give researchers important i...
How AI is revealing the universe's original 'setti...
Astronomers used artificial intelligence to calculate the five cosmological parameters that describe...
Dark matter could be hiding inside strange failed ...
Brown dwarfs could be hiding dark matter inside their cores – if they are, there would be signs that...
Aurora season is here: What to expect from the nor...
Here's what to expect from this aurora season and how to best prepare for your northern lights hunti...
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable o...
In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the late...
N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of P...
The Hugo award-winning author explains how she finally got to grips with Octavia E. Butler's dystopi...
Boeing's 1st crewed Starliner to return to Earth w...
Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule is poised to return to Earth without any crew aboard on Sept. 6,...
Potato yarn may cut the fashion industry's environ...
Thread that contains the part of a potato plant that is normally thrown away could be a sustainable ...
New record: Blue Origin launches youngest woman be...
Blue Origin set a new record with today's space tourism launch, sending the youngest woman beyond th...
Plastic vaporising process could recycle bags and ...
A new process uses cheap catalysts to break down polyethylene and polypropylene into their building ...
Marmosets seem to call each other by name
Marmosets are the first non-human primates shown to use personalised signifiers to refer to each oth...
Polaris Dawn crew patiently await SpaceX launch am...
Weather conditions at the mission's landing zones have postponed the Polaris Dawn launch, and also t...
Netflix's 'Terminator Zero' restores faith in an a...
Netflix's grim new 'Terminator Zero' anime series is a triumph of serious storytelling and killer ro...
