Science
Sierra Space wants to drop cargo from orbit to any...
Sierra Space has unveiled a new "global payload delivery" system known as Ghost that is designed to ...
Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their v...
After a short conversation with an artificial intelligence, people’s belief in a conspiracy theory d...
Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human fami...
Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin...
Water purifier is powered by static electricity fr...
A 10-minute walk can build up enough static electricity to power a battery-free water purifier, whic...
DJI Avata 2 drone review
The DJI Avata 2 offers an incredibly tantalizing FPV experience that can be as simple or as complica...
Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’
Not long after the last world war, the historian William L. Shirer had this to say about the next wo...
Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by An...
In this terrifying extract from Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, the author lays out what w...
Scientists identify origin of the 'BOAT' — the bri...
Astronomers have discovered that the BOAT, the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever detected, came fro...
Embryos pause development when nutrients are low —...
Embryos seem to have a sensor that picks up when nutrients are scarce, prompting them to pause their...
My formal 2024 solar eclipse apology
I used to be an eclipse hater, and now I'm not. That's the story.
Achoo! Baby star 'sneezes' tell astronomers a lot ...
Achoo! Baby stars "sneeze" to rid themselves of excess energy during their formation process, astron...
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular struct...
A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells – a...
AI can spot parasites in stool samples to help dia...
About 1.5 billion people worldwide carry a risk of conditions including malnutrition because of para...
A NASA spacecraft spotted something weird orbiting...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with a...
Monster star gains magnetic personality following ...
A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with an...
Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets
We can’t stir ordinary solids, but one research team now claims to have stirred an extraordinary qua...
A car-sized asteroid will pass really, really clos...
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the d...
'Star Wars: Tales of the Empire' sets surprise May...
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Before The Acolyte, Star Wars animation will return to our...
Gravitational waves reveal black hole and neutron ...
The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky...
Trains, planes and a total solar eclipse! Watching...
My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two anc...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew i...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyon...
How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the ...
The physicist Peter Higgs quietly revolutionised quantum field theory, then lived long enough to see...
Space weather can make it hard to predict satellit...
Satellites in low Earth orbit can be hundreds of miles off their expected trajectories when bad spac...
Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scie...
More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circul...
Top total solar eclipses to look out for over the ...
We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.
SpaceX to launch advanced weather satellite for US...
SpaceX will launch a mission for the U.S. Space Force this morning (April 11), sending aloft an adva...
Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may revea...
A small early-stage trial of the approach, which involves testing dozens of drug combinations on tho...
Japanese astronauts will join NASA moon landings i...
The first non-American to walk on the moon will be a Japanese astronaut. Two JAXA astronauts will fl...
Air pollution can make insects mate with the wrong...
Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones, and this can resul...
Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefa...
We don’t know what alien life might look like, but if other civilisations can colonise multiple worl...
Why Peter Higgs leaves a massive legacy in the fie...
On April 8, 2024, Peter Higgs passed away. Pioneering the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mark the...
See Jupiter close to a crescent moon (Mars near Sa...
Jupiter and a slim crescent moon are the stand-out night sky sight in the evening sky right now.
What happened when the moon 'turned itself inside ...
The moon underwent a reversal around 4.2 billion years ago, flipping itself "inside out" after a gia...
Watch mini humanoid robots showing off their footb...
These soccer-playing robots can respond faster than ones trained in a standard way because they impr...
Some of our favourite songs make us sad, which may...
Our favourite sad songs seem to become less enjoyable when we try to take the emotion out of them
Post-surgery infections may mainly be caused by sk...
The skin microbiome may be a bigger cause of post-operative wound infections than bacteria contamina...
