Science
Marijuana as medicine: Everything you need to know...
Support for medical cannabis has skyrocketed in recent years, but when does it actually help? Here's...
What are solid-state batteries and why do we need ...
Batteries containing solid electrolytes have many theoretical benefits, but a technique to manufactu...
See the moon and Saturn take a night swim in Aquar...
The moon and Saturn will take a night swim together in the watery constellation of Aquarius on Tuesd...
If the Perseverance rover found evidence of life o...
The rover recently came across some eye-catching circular rock structures, and they are attention-gr...
Stunning image of how signals move through the hea...
A computer-generated image mapping the thousands of muscle cells that make up the wall of the heart ...
Deforestation increased in 2022 despite pledges to...
The world is going “in the wrong direction” on forests, say campaigners. But some countries have red...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission officially surpasses ast...
Scientists have confirmed that OSIRIS-REx brought home at least 70.3 grams of material from asteroid...
Fly along with India's crew capsule on crucial tes...
A new video shows you the historic Oct. 21 test flight of India's new crew capsule from the spacecra...
Shortest 'fast radio bursts' ever discovered last ...
Researchers have reported evidence of FRBs that each last for a microsecond — the shortest FRBs yet ...
Artemis 2 moon astronauts meet car racing teams at...
Artemis 2 moon astronauts took in a big car racing event in Texas on Oct. 22. NASA's Reid Wiseman an...
How much does your immune system weigh? Now we hav...
An adult human's immune system is made up of more than 1 trillion cells. In total, it weighs around ...
NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get software up...
In May 2022, for instance, ground control began receiving gobbledygook from one of Voyager 1's syste...
Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket will undergo crucial ...
The European Space Agency has announced a timeline for key testing milestones for its upcoming next-...
A star is born! How cosmic winds are a key step in...
Astronomers have determined that cosmic winds around clouds of gas and dust are key for the formatio...
GPT-4 gave advice on planning terrorist attacks wh...
OpenAI’s GPT-4 advised on committing terrorism and financial fraud when requests were translated int...
Your ultimate guide to ultra-processed food – how ...
Highly processed foods, from pizza to bread, are said to be seriously bad for your health. Here is a...
How astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured the planet i...
Flipping through his new book of more than 200 photos of Earth taken during his second stay on the I...
Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramific...
A new analysis has concluded that the Gulf Stream is definitely slowing, but whether it's due to cli...
Extensive melting of West Antarctic ice sheet now ...
Ocean modelling suggests coastal cities around the world need to start preparing for several metres ...
Nearby asteroid may contain elements 'beyond the p...
Naturally occurring superheavy elements beyond those listed in the periodic table could potentially ...
Don't miss a partial lunar eclipse of October's Fu...
October 2023's Full Hunter's Moon will see the lunar disk slip into the shadow of Earth for a partia...
What is an attosecond? A physical chemist explains...
A group of three researchers earned the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for work that has revolutionized...
On the hunt for thousands of salmon that escaped I...
Some 3500 salmon have escaped from a fish farm pen in Iceland and now the hunt is on to catch them b...
The moon is 40 million years older than we thought...
A new look at the age of zircon crystals in a lunar rock sample brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 mis...
The moon may be 40 million years older than we tho...
A new analysis of moon samples brought to Earth in 1972 reveals the moon is 4.46 billion years old.
Two beguiling books show how mathematics is revolu...
Enjoy Piero Martin’s The Seven Measures of the World, stories about measurement, and explore Four Wa...
'Sew Sister' Jean Wright shares her NASA space shu...
Jean Wright used to sew critical hardware for NASA's space shuttle program. A new book by Elise Mati...
Strange anomaly in sun's solar cycle discovered in...
Aurora records in royal chronicles from Korea show that during the 'Maunder Minimum' between 1645 an...
Space Perspective unveils 'Space Spa' restroom for...
Space Perspective introduced its latest addition to its space tourism operation: a uniquely designed...
China is building the world's largest underwater t...
China's forthcoming Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) will search for the origins of co...
'Lego Star Wars' conjures a fun-sized trio of new ...
The Lego Group and Lucasfilm release three thrilling new all-ages "Lego Star Wars" Halloween shorts ...
Scientists bury time capsule to celebrate upcoming...
The European Southern Observatory buried a time capsule to celebrate its Extremely Large Telescope, ...
How did the universe's elements form?
We all know the universe contains a vast array of elements, ranging from light gases, such as helium...
SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites tonight on...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florid...
NASA Ames, UC Berkeley to build $2 billion space c...
The University of California, Berkeley, and NASA's Ames Research Center just unveiled plans for a ne...
Scientists propose 'missing' law for the evolution...
The "law of increasing functional information" says that complex systems in nature evolve to become ...
It's 'International Observe the Moon Night' tonigh...
There are a wide variety of ways you can get involved on "International Observe the Moon Night" — no...
Why is space so dark even though the universe is f...
Astronomers estimate that there are about 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe. And...
SpaceX fires up Starship prototype in deorbit burn...
SpaceX fired one of the six Raptor engines on its Ship 26 Starship prototype on Friday (Oct. 20) in ...
Legalising marijuana hasn't been the quick fix the...
More than 20 US states have now legalised recreational cannabis, but the devastating effects of proh...
SpaceX set to launch 21 Starlink satellites from C...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 21 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Califo...
