Science
Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong g...
Conservationists think tweaking pandas’ diets might shift their gut microbiomes in a way that could ...
ULA chronicles the rise of Vulcan rocket in new em...
Vulcan, United Launch Alliance's new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of being exposed to gamma...
Watch an exclusive clip from the CNN' 'Space Shutt...
CNN's space documentary, "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight" reaches its finale on April 14. ...
'Fly Me to the Moon' trailer mixes real-life Apoll...
Watching the new trailer for the upcoming movie "Fly Me to the Moon" might leave you thinking that i...
HALO Space unveils capsule design for stratospheri...
Spanish start-up HALO Space has unveiled its capsule design for stratospheric space tourism.
See inside an endangered California condor egg jus...
The hatching of the 250th California condor chick at the San Diego Zoo marks a notable milestone for...
One of the universe's most 'extreme' dead stars ju...
The closest extreme magnetic dead star or magnetar to Earth suddenly burst back to life to give astr...
‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggre...
Bonobos have long been regarded as the peaceful ape, in sharp contrast with violent chimpanzees, but...
'Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight' documen...
CNN is set to conclude airing a four-part series on space shuttle Columbia's ill-fated last return t...
SpaceX to launch a Falcon 9 rocket first stage for...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is set to lift off for a record-setting 20th time on Friday (April 12...
Arctic permafrost is now a net source of major gre...
An Arctic-wide survey has found that the permafrost region is emitting more carbon into the atmosphe...
No, you didn't see a solar flare during the total ...
Several media outlets have incorrectly claimed that explosive solar flares were spotted during the A...
Fallout and the Space Age: The franchise's connect...
The Fallout video game franchise (now also a streaming series) is known for its unique take on the p...
Sierra Space wants to drop cargo from orbit to any...
Sierra Space has unveiled a new "global payload delivery" system known as Ghost that is designed to ...
Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their v...
After a short conversation with an artificial intelligence, people’s belief in a conspiracy theory d...
Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human fami...
Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin...
Water purifier is powered by static electricity fr...
A 10-minute walk can build up enough static electricity to power a battery-free water purifier, whic...
DJI Avata 2 drone review
The DJI Avata 2 offers an incredibly tantalizing FPV experience that can be as simple or as complica...
Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’
Not long after the last world war, the historian William L. Shirer had this to say about the next wo...
Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by An...
In this terrifying extract from Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, the author lays out what w...
Scientists identify origin of the 'BOAT' — the bri...
Astronomers have discovered that the BOAT, the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever detected, came fro...
Embryos pause development when nutrients are low —...
Embryos seem to have a sensor that picks up when nutrients are scarce, prompting them to pause their...
My formal 2024 solar eclipse apology
I used to be an eclipse hater, and now I'm not. That's the story.
Achoo! Baby star 'sneezes' tell astronomers a lot ...
Achoo! Baby stars "sneeze" to rid themselves of excess energy during their formation process, astron...
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular struct...
A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells – a...
AI can spot parasites in stool samples to help dia...
About 1.5 billion people worldwide carry a risk of conditions including malnutrition because of para...
A NASA spacecraft spotted something weird orbiting...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with a...
Monster star gains magnetic personality following ...
A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with an...
Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets
We can’t stir ordinary solids, but one research team now claims to have stirred an extraordinary qua...
A car-sized asteroid will pass really, really clos...
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the d...
'Star Wars: Tales of the Empire' sets surprise May...
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Before The Acolyte, Star Wars animation will return to our...
Gravitational waves reveal black hole and neutron ...
The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky...
Trains, planes and a total solar eclipse! Watching...
My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two anc...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew i...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyon...
How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the ...
The physicist Peter Higgs quietly revolutionised quantum field theory, then lived long enough to see...
