Science
A star is born! How cosmic winds are a key step in...
Astronomers have determined that cosmic winds around clouds of gas and dust are key for the formatio...
GPT-4 gave advice on planning terrorist attacks wh...
OpenAI’s GPT-4 advised on committing terrorism and financial fraud when requests were translated int...
Your ultimate guide to ultra-processed food – how ...
Highly processed foods, from pizza to bread, are said to be seriously bad for your health. Here is a...
How astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured the planet i...
Flipping through his new book of more than 200 photos of Earth taken during his second stay on the I...
Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramific...
A new analysis has concluded that the Gulf Stream is definitely slowing, but whether it's due to cli...
Extensive melting of West Antarctic ice sheet now ...
Ocean modelling suggests coastal cities around the world need to start preparing for several metres ...
Nearby asteroid may contain elements 'beyond the p...
Naturally occurring superheavy elements beyond those listed in the periodic table could potentially ...
Don't miss a partial lunar eclipse of October's Fu...
October 2023's Full Hunter's Moon will see the lunar disk slip into the shadow of Earth for a partia...
What is an attosecond? A physical chemist explains...
A group of three researchers earned the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for work that has revolutionized...
On the hunt for thousands of salmon that escaped I...
Some 3500 salmon have escaped from a fish farm pen in Iceland and now the hunt is on to catch them b...
The moon is 40 million years older than we thought...
A new look at the age of zircon crystals in a lunar rock sample brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 mis...
The moon may be 40 million years older than we tho...
A new analysis of moon samples brought to Earth in 1972 reveals the moon is 4.46 billion years old.
Two beguiling books show how mathematics is revolu...
Enjoy Piero Martin’s The Seven Measures of the World, stories about measurement, and explore Four Wa...
'Sew Sister' Jean Wright shares her NASA space shu...
Jean Wright used to sew critical hardware for NASA's space shuttle program. A new book by Elise Mati...
Strange anomaly in sun's solar cycle discovered in...
Aurora records in royal chronicles from Korea show that during the 'Maunder Minimum' between 1645 an...
Space Perspective unveils 'Space Spa' restroom for...
Space Perspective introduced its latest addition to its space tourism operation: a uniquely designed...
China is building the world's largest underwater t...
China's forthcoming Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) will search for the origins of co...
'Lego Star Wars' conjures a fun-sized trio of new ...
The Lego Group and Lucasfilm release three thrilling new all-ages "Lego Star Wars" Halloween shorts ...
Scientists bury time capsule to celebrate upcoming...
The European Southern Observatory buried a time capsule to celebrate its Extremely Large Telescope, ...
How did the universe's elements form?
We all know the universe contains a vast array of elements, ranging from light gases, such as helium...
SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites tonight on...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florid...
NASA Ames, UC Berkeley to build $2 billion space c...
The University of California, Berkeley, and NASA's Ames Research Center just unveiled plans for a ne...
Scientists propose 'missing' law for the evolution...
The "law of increasing functional information" says that complex systems in nature evolve to become ...
It's 'International Observe the Moon Night' tonigh...
There are a wide variety of ways you can get involved on "International Observe the Moon Night" — no...
Why is space so dark even though the universe is f...
Astronomers estimate that there are about 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe. And...
SpaceX fires up Starship prototype in deorbit burn...
SpaceX fired one of the six Raptor engines on its Ship 26 Starship prototype on Friday (Oct. 20) in ...
Legalising marijuana hasn't been the quick fix the...
More than 20 US states have now legalised recreational cannabis, but the devastating effects of proh...
SpaceX set to launch 21 Starlink satellites from C...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 21 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Califo...
'The Right Stuff' at 40: Director Philip Kaufman o...
Space.com has an exclusive interview with director Philip Kaufman for the 40th anniversary of "The R...
NASA's Lucy probe will fly by a 'dinky' asteroid o...
A new NASA video explains what will happen when the space agency's Lucy probe flies by the space roc...
Dark energy may allow black holes to live in 'perf...
Binary black holes are believed to inevitably spiral together, but dark energy and the expanding uni...
Home of the world's most powerful telescopes joins...
Improved lighting standards coming into force across the whole of Chile will protect astronomy obser...
Mysterious rotation trick makes magnets float in t...
A few years ago, researchers discovered that a rapidly rotating magnet will cause other nearby magne...
Schools cut covid-19 sick days by 20 per cent usin...
The eagerly awaited finding comes from the first randomised trial of putting HEPA filter machines in...
Watch NASA's VIPER moon rover conquer a lunar 'obs...
NASA engineers created a simulated lunar environment, including large rocks, steep slopes and deep c...
Astronomers have learned lots about the universe −...
What astronomers can measure using telescopes is not what we really want to know – instead, we calcu...
Join Chewbacca in the forests of Kashyyyk in 'Star...
A sneak peek at Insight Editions' "Star Wars: The Secrets of the Wookiees," a new all-ages book from...
India launching test flight tonight for future Gag...
India will conduct a historic test of its Gaganyaan crew module tonight (Oct. 20), and you can watch...
Humans caught more diseases after we domesticated ...
Analysis of DNA from human remains up to 37,000 years old shows that more infectious diseases jumped...
