Science
Why Schrödinger's 1944 classic What Is Life? still...
Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influen...
The US Space Force just got a new electromagnetic ...
The U.S. Space Force has acquired one of its first publicly acknowledged offensive weapons, one that...
Revolutionary rocket engine company Venus Aerospac...
Venus Aerospace has raised $91 million to further develop the company's rotating detonation rocket e...
NASA's New Horizons probe just woke up from hibern...
NASA's New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after...
Lambs born via IVF using highly immature eggs in m...
Lambs have been born using an experimental form of IVF that coaxes immature eggs to become mature on...
The allergy culprit histamine also boosts our memo...
A drug that raises levels of histamine – the chemical that causes allergy symptoms – in the brain bo...
Earth may survive the sun's death after all, new s...
When the sun swells into a red giant about 5 billion years from now, Earth may escape being swallowe...
How extreme heat affects the body – and the best w...
A short spell in a heat chamber at the University of Brighton showed Alec Luhn that his body is not ...
James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its 4th birt...
To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning ima...
Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thoug...
Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.
'Project Hail Mary' is finally streaming Amazon Pr...
'Project Hail Mary' blasted off onto Prime Video starting on July 3.
Peter Shor’s algorithm could break the internet – ...
Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quan...
Does time come from the entire universe running co...
Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist...
Artemis 2's Jeremy Hansen stepping down from activ...
The Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen will step back from active astronaut service in September ...
How public–private partnerships can turn Mars into...
No single agency — not even NASA — can develop all the technologies and systems needed for sustained...
The strange metals forcing us to rethink how elect...
Some 40 years ago, physicists noticed certain metals were conducting electricity in a bizarre way no...
China releases 1st photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi...
China's Tianwen-2 probe beamed home a photo of its target, asteroid 2016HO3, also known as quasi-moo...
'That's going to come back and bite us': Former NA...
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA's commercial moon landers f...
Astronaut flexes his muscles mid-spacewalk | Space...
NASA astronaut Chris Williams recently flexed his muscles for a photo while on a spacewalk with fell...
Chinese scientists find the best way to nuke an as...
While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways ...
Salt batteries are about to shake up EVs and grid ...
Today, most rechargeable batteries are made from lithium ions, but sodium-ion alternatives could mak...
Chris Packham: 'I'd throw myself in front of a T. ...
As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding t...
SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered ...
A satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and ...
The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surfac...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in...
5 graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more ...
Longer-lasting hot spells and high temperatures at night are making it harder to cope, leading to th...
Ovaries may turn into an 'immune-like organ' after...
The ovaries of aged mice become infiltrated with immune cells linked to widespread inflammation in t...
Ovary identity shift after menopause may contribut...
We used to think post-menopausal ovaries sat inert in the body, but evidence from mice suggests they...
Even astronauts in space saw America 250 fireworks...
The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great vie...
Watch SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch 81 satellites ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 81 payloads to orbit from California early Tuesday morning (Jul...
More clues surface about the origins of interstell...
Observations of the fast-moving interstellar comet with the Very Large Telescope in Chile support si...
Bumblebee facial movements give clues to their inn...
A series of experiments shows that bees respond differently to tastes depending on their internal st...
Artefacts hint at cultural exchange between Neande...
A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens,...
NASA just found a planet 'hiding' in TESS spacecra...
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar syst...
Black holes buried in mysterious 'little red dot' ...
Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope coul...
Unidentified metal spheres found on Australian bea...
The Australian Space Agency is warning residents of Queensland to be on the lookout after metallic-l...
How healthy is your brain? We now know how to find...
In our efforts to keep our brains healthy, how do we know what is working? Helen Thomson explores a ...
'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superco...
A novel space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests. The technolo...
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo ...
Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe got up close to asteroid Torifune on July 5 and captured stunning n...
5 things to know about sunscreen, according to a s...
How much sunscreen should you be using, when should you apply it, and are there any downsides to doi...
Artemis moon astronauts visit Capitol Hill | Space...
Following their return to Earth from a 10-day journey around the moon and back in April, NASA's Arte...
NASA will have to find a way to service its new al...
We could see robots working on NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory out in space.
Musical take on The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is ...
A TED talk and then a film, William Kamkwamba’s story of how he worked to provide his rural Malawian...
Astronomers discover radio signals coming from rar...
Astronomers have detected radio signals coming from a long-dead neutron star known as the 'Blue Eye ...
Collapse of AMOC ocean current may already be lock...
The fate of the Atlantic Ocean current that keeps Europe’s climate warm depends on our carbon emissi...
Human brains may have got bigger for no particular...
Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolution...
'Once-in-a-millennium' asteroid flyby will be visi...
Ninety percent of the world's population could glimpse asteroid Apophis during its once-in-a-millenn...
Beetroot juice is trending – its benefits go beyon...
Some marathon runners and other athletes swear by beetroot juice shots, but is there evidence they r...
Can the biggest problems in AI be solved by philos...
AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, wh...
NASA tests advanced new Mars rover prototype in th...
A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves...
He-Man and beyond: 20 sci-fi cartoons (some iconic...
They had the power! Saturday morning cartoons introduced many kids to science fiction... and toys, l...
