Science
Joe Engle, X-15 rocket plane and space shuttle ast...
Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly in space on two different winged vehicles, has died at the age...
Menstrual pads that turn blood solid could reduce ...
Adding a polymer-alcohol mixture to menstrual pads causes blood to solidify, rather than being absor...
People with Alzheimer's disease benefit from spend...
Horse therapy helps people with Alzheimer's disease socialise and improves their mood to a greater e...
China plans to deflect an asteroid by 2030 to show...
China aims to launch its first planetary defense mission by 2030, to showcase the skills needed to n...
When will Starliner come home? Boeing and NASA sti...
Boeing's Starliner capsule has been in orbit for more than a month, and it remains unclear when the ...
Speed of decision-making reflects our biases
Within a group of decision-makers, the longer it takes someone to make a choice, the less likely the...
Lions' record-breaking swim across channel capture...
Two lions, one missing a leg, made a 1.5-kilometre swim through crocodile-infested waters in Uganda,...
New study shows mysterious solar particle blasts c...
The remarkable aurora in early May this year demonstrated the power that solar storms can emit as ra...
Solar maximum is in sight but when will it arrive ...
We explore the latest solar maximum predictions and look into why it could be a couple of years befo...
Governments bans on quantum computer exports have ...
Several nations around the world have placed arbitrary limits on the export of quantum computers, de...
Hear the real stories behind the private space rac...
HBO released a new trailer and poster for its new original documentary, "Wild Wild Space," which exp...
SpaceX launching direct-to-cell Starlink satellite...
SpaceX will launch 20 more of its Starlink satellites, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities...
How a simple physics experiment could reveal the “...
Could the universe's missing matter be hiding in a "dark" extra dimension? We now have simple ways t...
'Star Wars: The Acolyte' episode 7: What's a verge...
"The Acolyte" seventh episode 'Choice' reveals the truth about what happened on Brendok and cuts eve...
A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may ha...
Researchers have discovered a hormone in mice that prevents bone loss during lactation and could one...
The plague may have wiped out most northern Europe...
DNA evidence from tombs in Sweden and Denmark suggests major plague outbreaks were responsible for t...
University of Maryland wins world's largest colleg...
A record-setting 122 teams competed this year in New Mexico at the world's largest intercollegiate r...
Hubble Space Telescope finds closest massive black...
The Hubble Telescope has discovered a black hole "frozen in time" that's also the closest massive bl...
3D printer successfully makes little space shuttle...
SpaceCAL is a 3D printer that can create objects in microgravity conditions; a recent test of the de...
SpaceX rolls Starship Super Heavy booster to launc...
SpaceX moved its fifth Starship Super Heavy booster to the launch pad in preparation for a coming te...
Europe's Mars sample return orbiter moving ahead d...
The European Space Agency's Earth Return Orbiter has passed its design review, which validates its t...
Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we pr...
A dead whale was tagged with satellite tracking equipment and monitored for more than a week as part...
Mobile weather labs map toll of extreme heat in sc...
Trucks outfitted with weather sensors, lasers and balloons are mapping urban microclimates in the ex...
SpaceX rivals challenge Starship launch license in...
United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin have cited safety and environmental factors in challenges to ...
Crushed rocks and fertiliser switches can cut nitr...
Adding crushed basalt rocks and special fertilisers to soils could cut nitrous oxide emissions witho...
Giant dome filled with CO2 could store excess powe...
Italian firm Energy Dome is building a "CO2 battery" in Sardinia that will store excess power from r...
'Futurama' Season 12 trailer teases fresh new inte...
A new trailer and poster has been released for "Futurama" Season 12 on Hulu, returning on July 29.
Saharan dust outbreak lingers across some US state...
A large plume of Saharan dust settled across the Gulf states this week after an epic journey from Af...
Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket launches on long-awai...
The new Ariane 6 rocket launched for the first time ever today (July 9), opening a new chapter in Eu...
When did human ancestors start walking on two legs...
Anthropologists have been arguing for 20 years about whether Sahelanthropus, a hominin that lived ab...
The James Webb Space Telescope finds a jeweled rin...
A sparkling jeweled ring, created through a cosmic phenomenon called gravitational lensing, has been...
