Science
Why does weed give you the ‘munchies’? Here's what...
There may be several reasons why cannabis encourages people to eat, including the fact that the psyc...
Passing star could fling Earth out past Pluto into...
If another star passed close to our solar system, there is a small chance that Earth could crash int...
NASA's Artemis 3 astronaut moon landing unlikely b...
NASA's endeavor to return humans to the moon during the Artemis 3 mission will likely be delayed bec...
This 'forbidden' exoplanet is way too massive for ...
Astronomers have discovered a planet 13 times as massive as Earth orbiting a star nine times less ma...
The beautifully bizarre animated classic 'Fantasti...
Director René Laloux's sublime animated sci-fi film "Fantastic Planet" blows out 50 birthday candles...
GPT-4 developer tool can be exploited for misuse w...
OpenAI’s developer tool for its GPT-4 large language model can be misused to trick the AI into provi...
'For All Mankind' season 4 episode 4 review: The s...
As tensions between East and West intensify, a workplace dispute and a cover-up in Roscosmos have ma...
Painkillers seem to work better if you have unplea...
People found a nasal spray painkiller more effective when it caused a slight burning sensation. This...
A mysterious river of gas flowing into the Milky W...
For the first time since its discovery, scientists have found stars within the Magellanic Stream, a ...
How to see and track the Tiangong Chinese space st...
Since 2021, China's Tiangong space station has orbited Earth, offering amateur astronomers a chance ...
Life as we know it may have its roots in an old, c...
The discovery is another step along the road to showing that the stuff of life originally came to Ea...
Watch SpaceX launch Irish, South Korean satellites...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will send two satellites into space Dec. 1: Ireland's first satellite, and ...
Vaping vs edibles: How does the way we use cannabi...
Edibles, vapes and spliffs all contain the same psychoactive compounds but the effects they have on ...
Sci-fi classic 'The Abyss' washes into theaters an...
Director James Cameron's classic underwater sci-fi film "The Abyss" is finally coming to 4K UHD on h...
China's Chang'e 5 moon samples, beyond NASA's reac...
For the first time, NASA-funded researchers can apply for access to lunar samples collected by China...
Scientists are devising ways to gaze past Earth's ...
Radio signals in Earth's orbit can create noise in astronomy data. Scientists are planning a workaro...
How will we actually know when we pass 1.5°C of wa...
It looks likely that the world will pass 1.5°C of warming in the 2030s, but current climate definiti...
World must prepare for frequent and severe drought...
With climate change driving more intense dry spells, the world must invest in early warning systems ...
US Space Force postpones launch of secretive X-37B...
The U.S. Space Force has announced a delay in the upcoming launch of its elusive X-37B space plane, ...
The best new science fiction books of December 202...
A novelisation of Zack Snyder’s film Rebel Moon, a new Star Wars novel and the much-anticipated seco...
Robot eel reveals how the strange fish swim so eff...
Tests with an eel-inspired robot show that the unusual fish may swim most efficiently by reducing th...
See a forgotten meteor shower caused by a dead com...
The Andromedid meteor shower is normally a quiet affair, but very occasionally it puts on an intense...
Marmosets swap brain cells with their siblings
Most marmosets have non-identical twins or triplets, which exchange blood cells while in the uterus ...
COP28: Energy transition may cut 60% of oil-produc...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
COP28: Energy transition may cut oil-producing sta...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields with...
Like platypuses and some sharks, bottlenose dolphins have an electric sense which they may use to na...
Nuclear-powered Dragonfly mission to Saturn moon T...
"The Dragonfly team has successfully overcome a number of technical and programmatic challenges in t...
Here's what astronauts in orbit around Mars would ...
New images from NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter capture what the Red Planet would look like from the van...
For Henry Kissinger, NASA'S Apollo 11 lunar landin...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger passed away Nov. 29, 2023. After the Apollo 11 moon l...
Watch a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft launch t...
A Russian cargo spacecraft will blast off from Kazakhstan on Dec. 1 for a flight to the Internationa...
Chinstrap penguins take thousands of very short na...
While incubating their eggs, chinstrap penguins need to stay vigilant for predators – so they only s...
DNA repair has been captured in a step-by-step mol...
Researchers have worked out how a protein called photolyase repairs DNA using light, and their disco...
Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shou...
An enormous planet has been spotted orbiting a small star, and it could not have formed under either...
300 gamma-ray-blasting neutron stars found in mass...
Astronomers have discovered around 300 new gamma-ray-blasting pulsars, including several "spider pul...
Meet 'Selam,' the curious double moon orbiting ast...
Asteroid Dinkinesh, target No. 1 on Lucy's journey, turned out to be not one, but two (technically t...
The Milky Way lights up the 'Valley of the moon' i...
The European Southern Observatory shared a mesmerizing new photo of the Milky Way shining above Vall...
