Science
Ants learn faster on caffeine
A dose of caffeine helped ants locate a sweet reward 30 per cent faster, suggesting the drug boosts ...
Space Force wants 7 new telescopes in Hawaii. Loca...
Some Hawaii residents oppose plans from the U.S. Space Force to build a suite of new telescopes desi...
Earth-like exoplanet found just 40 light years awa...
A nearby planet named Gliese 12 b has an estimated surface temperature of 42°C (108°F), making it a ...
Where will the 2027 total solar eclipse on Aug. 2 ...
A total solar eclipse on Aug 2, 2027, will be visible across southern Europe, North Africa and the M...
'Star Trek: Discovery' season 5 episode 9 offers a...
Possibly a couple of missed opportunities, but nonetheless a solid first part of a series finale. An...
Things are finally looking up for the Voyager 1 in...
Voyager 1's mission has been tumultuous lately, but scientists on the probe's flight team have turne...
1st astronaut launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule...
Boeing is now targeting June 1 for the first-ever crewed launch of its Starliner capsule, a test fli...
El Niño is ending after a year of driving extreme ...
The warm El Niño pattern in the Pacific Ocean combined with global warming and other factors to crea...
See May's Full Flower Moon blossom in the night sk...
The Full Flower Moon will be in the Scorpius constellation tonight (May 23), rising in the southeast...
Telescope deal: Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 11...
This beginner-friendly telescope from Celestron is on offer for under $200 now that it has a $40 dis...
Amazing new images of galaxies and nebulae caught ...
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has taken images of galaxies, galaxy clusters and...
ZWO SeeStar S50 smart telescope review
A fun, affordable, portable and intuitively designed smart telescope for imaging galaxies, the sun a...
Huge nose of male proboscis monkeys is key to mati...
Male proboscis monkeys use their enormous noses to make loud trumpeting sounds, and the organ’s size...
The Euclid 'dark universe detective' telescope has...
A new set of images has been released from Europe's "dark universe detective" Euclid, and they show ...
About 1 in 9 children in the US have been diagnose...
New survey data estimates that 7.1 million children in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD at some ...
Safety first: NASA pledges to use AI carefully and...
NASA will keep safety front of mind while harnessing the ever-growing power of artificial intelligen...
SpaceX launching 23 Starlink satellites tonight on...
SpaceX is set to launch 23 of its Starlink satellites from Florida tonight (May 22), the second miss...
Modern soldiers test ancient Greek armour to show ...
An experiment inspired by Homer’s description of combat in The Iliad tested the capabilities of the ...
Sega Toys Homestar Matataki star projector review
The Sega Toys Homestar Matataki star projector will bring twinkling stars and 'natural sounds' into ...
Satellites capture smoke pouring from hundreds of ...
NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites have captured the smoke pouring out of hundreds of wildfires blazin...
Quantum to cosmos: Why scale is vital to our under...
From the vastness of the universe to the infinitesimal particles that comprise it, extremes of scale...
Food, sex, drugs and more – are we addicted to add...
New proposals for addictions seem to keep cropping up, but the reality is we don't truly understand ...
Russian space weapon ban shot down by UN Security ...
The United Nations Security Council has voted against a resolution introduced by Russia and China th...
Ancient viruses in the human genome linked to ment...
People with higher genetic risk for depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are more likely t...
How quantum entanglement really works and why we a...
Subatomic particles can appear to instantly influence one another, no matter how far apart they are....
AI finds hidden galactic evolution clues in over 1...
Scientists enlisted AI to help peruse a massive dataset in search of neutral carbon absorbers in gal...
Source of the sun’s magnetic field may hide right ...
Scientists have long thought the source of the sun's magnetic field sat deep within the star, but it...
Mysterious element promethium finally reveals its ...
The highly unstable radioactive element promethium is hard to study in the lab, but chemists have no...
Could mental health conditions be 'transmitted' am...
The largest study yet looking at whether conditions such as depression and anxiety could spread betw...
Some metals actually grow more resilient when hot
Pelting metals under high temperatures has revealed that some get even stronger when heated, which c...
Zero-carbon cement process could slash emissions f...
Cement production is a huge source of carbon emissions with no green alternative, but a new process ...
Why viewing cancer as an ecosystem could lead to b...
Researchers have come to see cancers as akin to organisms, existing in complex ecosystems and subjec...
Scientists find weird link between a solar mystery...
The solar dynamo that drives sunspots and solar flares could be located near the surface of the sun ...
Fungus lost to science for 42 years found again in...
The big puma fungus hasn't been seen since it was discovered in 1982 in Chile’s Nahuelbuta mountains...
Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal...
Black holes are such a drag! Especially for the guts of stars they've destroyed and the fabric of sp...
