Science
Are tech firms giving up on policing their platfor...
Social media companies have long struggled with moderating the behaviour of billions of users, and n...
ISS astronaut captures green auroras dancing over ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit continues to give us great views of Earth from the ISS, this time beaming ...
The neuroscientist using music to help treat Alzhe...
We have long suspected that music has restorative qualities, but Daniel Levitin is now providing rig...
The 'original' John Glenn gave his 'go' for Blue O...
John Glenn's last correspondence before his death was to approve the use of his name for Blue Origin...
Boldly boost your bartending skills with 'Star Tre...
A preview of Titan Books' "Star Trek Cocktails: A Stellar Compendium"
Batteries made from industrial waste could store r...
Industrial waste can make rudimentary batteries. That's likely no good in electric cars etc, but cou...
James Webb Space Telescope spots record-breaking c...
The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 44 individual stars in a gorgeous portrait of a di...
Blue Origin to launch its 1st New Glenn rocket on ...
Blue Origin plans to launch its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for the first time ever in the wee hours...
AI helps radiologists spot breast cancer in real-w...
Whether AI can assist in cancer detection has been subject to much debate, but now a real-world test...
Genetically modified toxic semen could suppress tr...
Male flies have been genetically engineered to produce poisonous proteins in their seminal fluid, a ...
US reports first human death related to bird flu
A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with a bird flu virus known as H5N1 in December has pa...
India delays 1st space docking of SpaDeX satellite...
India postponed its first attempt to dock two SpaDex satellites in Earth orbit from Jan. 6 until Jan...
Springtime on Mars brings frost avalanches, gas ge...
It’s time to ring in the Martian New Year with a variety of strange sights on the planet’s Northern ...
Wastewater treatment plants funnel PFAS into drink...
Wastewater treatment plants in the US may discharge enough “forever chemicals” to raise concentratio...
Lead pollution across the Roman Empire would have ...
Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by p...
US Space Force broke its launch record in 2024 wit...
An impressive 93 launches lifted off from Florida’s coast in 2024, setting a new Space Force record ...
AI uses throat vibrations to work out what someone...
Throat vibrations made by people who find it difficult to speak, such as after a stroke, can be anal...
The problems with Dry January – and what you could...
Many people decide to give up alcohol during January. But is this actually helpful in the long-term ...
BluShift Aerospace hopes to launch 1st suborbital ...
Maine-based bluShift Aerospace is planning for its next big milestone: a suborbital flight test towa...
SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 test flight will deploy...
SpaceX aims to launch the seventh Starship flight test on Jan. 10. It will mark the first time the c...
How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a ...
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but ...
Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a bri...
Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before...
Secrets of velvet ant's venom explain what makes i...
A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molec...
How a quantum innovation may quash the idea of the...
The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics invokes alternative realities to keep everything...
Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterio...
Innew research, we have for the first time tracked a fast radio burst back to its source: a common k...
5 graphs that show how the world suddenly changed ...
From carbon emissions to the share prize of videoconferencing firm Zoom, these graphs tell the story...
Dark Energy Camera captures thousands of galaxies ...
Astronomers have captured a breathtaking new image of the Antlia Cluster of galaxies.
SpaceX aims to launch 1st Starlink satellites of 2...
SpaceX is set to launch the first batch of its internet satellites this year from Florida's Space Co...
The best new science fiction books of January 2025...
From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a fl...
Permafrost thaw beneath Arctic lakes poses surpris...
Deep sediments under Arctic lakes could release large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, adding ...
Desert planets like those in 'Dune' and 'Star Wars...
"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to...
Electric fields could mine rare earth metals with ...
Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destructive rare earth mini...
