Science
Ancient Maya burned their dead rulers to mark a ne...
In the foundations of a Maya temple, researchers found the charred bones of royal individuals – poss...
Sweden becomes 38th country to sign NASA's Artemis...
Sweden is the latest nation to sign onto NASA's Artemis Accords on April 16, following Switzerland's...
What is cloud seeding and did it cause the floods ...
Cloud seeding almost certainly did not play a significant role in the flooding on the Arabian penins...
Ingenuity team says goodbye to pioneering Mars hel...
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter team met one last time on Tuesday (April 16) to oversee a transmission...
Boom's XB-1 test plane gets FAA green light for su...
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 experimental jet has been cleared for supersonic flight by the FAA.
Ancient marine reptile found on UK beach may be th...
The jawbone of an ichthyosaur uncovered in south-west England has been identified as a new species, ...
Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Ara...
Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneat...
Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have gotten h...
The discovery of vast subsurface seas on Saturn's tiny moon Mimas has redefined our view of what an ...
How to see the Lyrid meteor shower and when is the...
Caused by debris from a comet thought to originate in the Oort Cloud, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks ...
Old-fashioned pessimism might actually help us fig...
Negative thinking is unpopular but it could drive more realistic efforts to limit harm from global w...
Mysterious dark matter may leave clues in 'strings...
Starting in late 2025, the Vera C. Rubin observatory will image the outskirts of our galaxy in searc...
Skin-deep wounds can damage gut health in mice
We know there is some connection between skin and gut health, but many assumed the gut was the one c...
Turning plants blue with gene editing could make r...
Weeding robots can sometimes struggle to tell weeds from crops, but genetically modifying the plants...
Intel reveals world's biggest 'brain-inspired' neu...
A computer intended to mimic the way the brain processes and stores data could potentially improve t...
A new understanding of tinnitus and deafness could...
Investigations of the paradoxical link between tinnitus and hearing loss have revealed a hidden form...
James Webb Space Telescope's 'shocking' discovery ...
JWST's surprise discovery of methane emissions and likely aurorae over a distant brown dwarf could i...
A cicada double brood is coming – it's less rare t...
Up to 17 US states could be peppered with more than a trillion cicadas this spring, and though it ha...
'I really like these suits.' Boeing's snazzy (and ...
Starliner will make its first trip to space with astronauts no earlier than May 6. The historic flig...
Eyes hurt after the eclipse? Signs of retinal dama...
The total solar eclipse on April 8 plunged Syracuse, New York's Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Scien...
Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yiel...
Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks...
SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien techn...
For the chief leader of the SETI Institute, established to search for and understand life beyond Ear...
Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain ...
We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but ...
Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a w...
A serendipitous lab accident revealed that hibernating bumblebee queens can make it through days of ...
What's left of the 2024 solar eclipse lives in our...
The 2024 solar eclipse, as seen from Indianapolis, connected strangers across a famous racetrack.
Uranus and Neptune aren't made of what we thought,...
A study suggests the ice giants Uranus and Neptune aren't quite as watery as previously thought. The...
Exotic 'Einstein ring' suggests that mysterious da...
The unexplained mass of a remarkably massive galaxy suggests that dark matter interacts with itself,...
Boeing Starliner spacecraft rolls out to Atlas V r...
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft moved between buildings at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to g...
'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 4 blasts onto Blu-...
A preview of the "Star Trek: Lower Decks" Season 4 Blu-ray and DVD, which was released today (April ...
Monster black hole seen feeding on nearby matter j...
The robotic telescopes of the Virtual Telescope Project have observed a quasar powered by a supermas...
Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here...
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhyt...
The man reinventing economics with chaos theory an...
Traditional economics makes ludicrous assumptions and poor predictions. Now an alternative approach ...
Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon sto...
Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we can store vast amoun...
How to destroy a black hole
A black hole would be tough to destroy, but in the season two premiere of Dead Planets Society our h...
Will the constellations ever change?
BepiColombo spotted an outpour of carbon and oxygen atoms in Venus' fragile magnetic environment
Switzerland signs Artemis Accords to join NASA in ...
Switzerland became the 37th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful moon exploration with N...
James Webb Space Telescope full-size model to be d...
To see the premier astronomical observatory in its full-size glory, you need to go to Lagrange Point...
Dark energy could be getting weaker, suggesting th...
The first year of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data seems to show that dark energy is...
