Science
Later bedtimes on weekends are linked to weight ga...
Children who go to bed later on the weekends than they do midweek have a larger waist circumference ...
April delights: Mercury, Venus and the Pleiades pu...
From now through mid-April, Venus will help you to identify the normally hard-to-find planet Mercury...
Best space pranks: From space apes to smuggled san...
Explore some of the best pranks carried out in space. From rogue gorillas to smuggled sandwiches, we...
Ants independently evolved to farm fungus at least...
Fungus farming by ants has evolved independently in populations separated by the Atlantic Ocean – th...
Artemis 2's Canadian astronaut got their moon miss...
It took four years of negotiations for Canada to get a seat aboard Artemis 2, the mission that will ...
Son's design for astronaut dad's mission patch put...
A sketch that NASA astronaut Mike Mullane's son drew as a possible patch design for his 1984 space s...
AI that spots basketball players’ weaknesses could...
By quickly analysing where and when NBA players take their shots, an artificial intelligence could h...
US toxic chemical emissions to air, water and soil...
A report from the US Environmental Protection Agency found that routine releases of toxic chemicals ...
UAE Mars orbiter creates stunning new map of the R...
A new map of Mars shows the Red Planet in stunning detail, revealing a wealth of fascinating geologi...
We may finally know how Hawking's black hole parad...
Under the laws of quantum mechanics, information about what has fallen into a black hole cannot be d...
SpaceX Starship will launch this new private moon ...
A new lunar rover built by Astrolab will launch on an upcoming SpaceX Starship mission to the moon a...
Astronomers observe for the first time as a black ...
Astronomers are redefining a galaxy whose black hole jet changed directions by 90 degrees.
Surprise! Icy 'rain' from Saturn's rings is heatin...
Icy 'rain' from Saturn's rings is heating the gas giant's atmosphere, a phenomenon never seen in the...
Cancer tumours in mice shrunk thanks to oxygen-suc...
By consuming oxygen near to tumours, the battery makes a class of experimental drugs target oxygen-f...
Computer made of DNA works out prime factors of 6 ...
Simple calculations, such as factorising low numbers, can be made by mixing together differently sha...
Private Dream Chaser space plane's 1st launch slip...
Sierra Space's Dream Chaser will delay about half a year to December, while its new United Launch Al...
The UK is making five big bets in the hope of hitt...
Details of how the UK government is planning to reach net zero by 2050 reveal that the five biggest ...
Curious cosmic coincidence could help explain fast...
Two mysterious cosmic phenomena appeared in the same patch of sky nearly at once, and it may not be ...
The double stars of spring offer twice the skywatc...
Now that spring is officially here, we have a great view of some of the most interesting double star...
NASA aims to boost diversity at space agency with ...
NASA has appointed Steve Shih as the agency's first diversity ambassador and Elaine Ho as the next a...
Pentagon won't be buying air-launched hypersonic m...
The US Air Force will not use a Lockheed Martin-made hypersonic weapon for its Air-launched Rapid Re...
NASA's Apollo-era crawler, upgraded for Artemis, s...
It's taken seven years, but now it's official: one of NASA's Apollo-era rocket movers is the heavies...
3D-printed explosive can't detonate unless filled ...
An explosive filled with gaps can only detonate after a liquid is poured into it, which could make i...
Artificial shooting star project gets 2nd life thr...
There's no firm release date for when ALE plans to generate its first artificial meteor shower, whic...
See Venus meet up with Uranus in the sky tonight (...
The solar system's hottest planet (Venus) and its coldest one (Uranus) will be in conjunction tonigh...
Ingesting microplastics may increase fat absorptio...
Using a model of a human small intestine, researchers found that microplastics in high-fat foods sig...
Start-up is developing world’s first ammonia-power...
The New York start-up Amogy has already created an ammonia-powered drone, tractor and semi-truck. No...
Watch an exclusive clip from the next-to-last epis...
We've got an exclusive clip from the 9th episode of Apple TV+'s addictive retro-futuristic sci-fi se...
Virgin Orbit ceasing operations 'for the foreseeab...
Virgin Orbit is ceasing operations "for the foreseeable future" and laying off about 90% of its work...
NASA establishes 'Moon to Mars' office to help get...
NASA has set up a new office to manage the agency's crewed activities at and around the moon and Mar...
Amazon's Kuiper satellite constellation will use t...
Amazon has revealed three terminals that customers might use to link up with Project Kuiper, the com...
Mars cave-exploring robots take inspiration from H...
The rovers could use communication "breadcrumbs" to keep in touch with the surface as they explore c...
The brain may flush out its waste products after a...
Extra cerebrospinal fluid – which normally flushes out waste - was pumped into the brain after peopl...
T. rex’s terrifying teeth would have been hidden b...
Just about every popular depiction of predatory dinosaurs is wrong, because their teeth were probabl...
'Star Trek: Picard' season 3 episode 7 begins the ...
'Star Trek: Picard' season 3 episode 7 contains a few surprises and very obvious moments that make f...
Bits of Saturn’s rings are falling onto the planet...
Observations from five spacecraft over 40 years have shown that as Saturn’s rings slowly disintegrat...
'Ant-Man' star Paul Rudd quizzes NASA expert on qu...
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star Paul Rudd can’t get enough of the quantum realm. Rudd took to...
