Science
Ageing is inevitable, but we may soon treat it lik...
Getting older is a fact of life, but there are promising signs that we may be able to intervene to s...
How we could discover quantum gravity without rebu...
In the search for a theory that unites general relativity and quantum physics, many have tried to re...
Why the mind-body connection is vital to understan...
The key to solving the hard problem of consciousness could lie in the body not the brain, with our g...
Young star shoots out jet like a garden sprinkler ...
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured a snaking jet of matter expelled f...
Watch SpaceX launch 51 Starlink satellites to orbi...
SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (May 10), an...
Who is Cosmo the Spacedog? All you need to know ab...
A history of Cosmo the Spacedog in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise.
Colour-changing wrap could let you know when food ...
A biodegradable plastic-like wrap made from silk changes colour when exposed to rotting foods and de...
Ceiling robots can reconfigure room lights and cur...
Robots that magnetically attach to the ceiling can rearrange living and working spaces by controllin...
SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission will grow 1s...
The Ax-2 mission will test the effect of microgravity in space on the growth of stem cells.
The mystery of how Mars meteorites reach Earth may...
The mystery of how meteorites from Mars can reach Earth may have been solved, as scientists discover...
Space junk cleanup mission to launch in 2026 aboar...
A spacecraft operated by Swiss startup ClearSpace will target a piece of debris in orbit after getti...
What time is it on the moon? How a lunar clock deb...
What time is it on the moon? One wristwatch tried to answer that question, yet was largely forgotten...
China to launch communications relay satellite to ...
Queqiao 2 ('Magpie Bridge 2') will launch early next year and will be used to support China's upcomi...
Apparent meteorite strikes house in New Jersey (ph...
A meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in New Jersey on Monday (May 8). No one was injured b...
Rare 'backward' sunspot could create supercharged ...
A reverse polarity sunspot is continuing to bombard Earth with powerful solar flares and ejections o...
Enormous M87 galaxy looks like giant potato in 1st...
Astronomers have created a 3D map of the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and gotten a better es...
The Eta Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight. Stay up...
The annual Eta Lyrid meteor shower lasts from May 3 to May 14 this year and will produce its most pr...
China builds simulated moon chamber to prep for cr...
Chinese scientists have built a chamber to simulate the conditions on the surface of the moon to hel...
Unevenly packed coffee to blame for weak espresso,...
A mathematical model shows that even small inconsistencies in how coffee is packed into an espresso ...
Meet 'Scary Barbie,' a black hole slaughtering a s...
Astronomers detected one of the brightest and most energetic cosmic objects ever observed in the for...
High-tech face mask lets you smell things in virtu...
A face mask can release nine different scents on demand to make VR experiences more immersive and mu...
Weird particle that remembers its past discovered ...
Particles with unusual properties called anyons have long been sought after as a potential building ...
Antarctic ice melt may be reversible due to rising...
The West Antarctic ice sheet grew back after severe thinning thousands of years ago – a sign that me...
NASA may shift New Horizons Pluto probe to sun-stu...
The future of NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is uncertain following debates at NASA over how best t...
Lab-grown meat could be 25 times worse for the cli...
Analysis finds the carbon footprint of cultivated meat is likely to be higher than beef if current p...
NASA platform used to launch Apollo 11 to the moon...
NASA's Mobile Launch Platform-3, from which the first astronauts departed Earth to fly around and la...
The 1st photo of Earth from Europe's powerful new ...
Europe's newest weather satellite has snapped an image of the Earth from space, revealing our planet...
Doctors are using AI to draft messages without tel...
US healthcare organisations are trialling OpenAI’s GPT-3 for drafting clinician messages to patients...
Powerful sun storm could supercharge auroras this ...
The sun fired a huge cloud of plasma directly at Earth on Sunday evening (May 7), an outburst that c...
The moon's heart of iron revealed for the 1st time...
New research has revealed the heart of the moon as never seen before, demonstrating that it has a so...
Chinese startup aims to debut new reusable rocket ...
The Chinese launch startup Galactic Energy is making moves toward launching Pallas 1, its small Falc...
New antibiotic may clear Clostridium difficile and...
Clostridium difficile kills 13,000 people each year in the US alone. A new antibiotic tested in mice...
James Webb Space Telescope snaps amazing photo of ...
The first asteroid belt ever found outside the solar system is more complex than expected, new obser...
Look for 'Earthgrazers' as the Eta Aquarid meteor ...
The peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower unfortunately coincided with a bright full moon, but there...
