Science
World must prepare for frequent and severe drought...
With climate change driving more intense dry spells, the world must invest in early warning systems ...
US Space Force postpones launch of secretive X-37B...
The U.S. Space Force has announced a delay in the upcoming launch of its elusive X-37B space plane, ...
The best new science fiction books of December 202...
A novelisation of Zack Snyder’s film Rebel Moon, a new Star Wars novel and the much-anticipated seco...
Robot eel reveals how the strange fish swim so eff...
Tests with an eel-inspired robot show that the unusual fish may swim most efficiently by reducing th...
See a forgotten meteor shower caused by a dead com...
The Andromedid meteor shower is normally a quiet affair, but very occasionally it puts on an intense...
Marmosets swap brain cells with their siblings
Most marmosets have non-identical twins or triplets, which exchange blood cells while in the uterus ...
COP28: Energy transition may cut 60% of oil-produc...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
COP28: Energy transition may cut oil-producing sta...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields with...
Like platypuses and some sharks, bottlenose dolphins have an electric sense which they may use to na...
Nuclear-powered Dragonfly mission to Saturn moon T...
"The Dragonfly team has successfully overcome a number of technical and programmatic challenges in t...
Here's what astronauts in orbit around Mars would ...
New images from NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter capture what the Red Planet would look like from the van...
For Henry Kissinger, NASA'S Apollo 11 lunar landin...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger passed away Nov. 29, 2023. After the Apollo 11 moon l...
Watch a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft launch t...
A Russian cargo spacecraft will blast off from Kazakhstan on Dec. 1 for a flight to the Internationa...
Chinstrap penguins take thousands of very short na...
While incubating their eggs, chinstrap penguins need to stay vigilant for predators – so they only s...
DNA repair has been captured in a step-by-step mol...
Researchers have worked out how a protein called photolyase repairs DNA using light, and their disco...
Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shou...
An enormous planet has been spotted orbiting a small star, and it could not have formed under either...
300 gamma-ray-blasting neutron stars found in mass...
Astronomers have discovered around 300 new gamma-ray-blasting pulsars, including several "spider pul...
Meet 'Selam,' the curious double moon orbiting ast...
Asteroid Dinkinesh, target No. 1 on Lucy's journey, turned out to be not one, but two (technically t...
The Milky Way lights up the 'Valley of the moon' i...
The European Southern Observatory shared a mesmerizing new photo of the Milky Way shining above Vall...
Mary Cleave, space shuttle astronaut who led NASA'...
Mary Cleave, who launched twice on the space shuttle before becoming the first woman to head NASA's ...
Hubble Space Telescope is in safe mode — but scien...
The Hubble Space Telescope has entered an automatic safe mode due to gyroscope difficulties, but sci...
Powerful 'Cannibal' solar burst will hit Earth ton...
A 'Cannibal' plasma eruption from the sun will hit Earth on Dec. 1. Scientists predict strong geomag...
Asteroid Phaethon's mysterious tail may finally ha...
Spectral analysis of the mystery asteroid Phaethon reveals its composition at last.
Our solar system's planets aren't weird after all....
All solar system planets circle our sun with slightly tilted orbits — and a new study shows even dis...
Big blob of hot water in Pacific may be making El ...
El Niño is in full swing and will likely remain "strong" this winter, but its effect on weather patt...
Earth-like planets may form even in harsh environm...
The James Webb Space Telescope has found water and organic carbon molecules in the vicinity of a mas...
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones...
A 17th-century hospital crypt in Milan, Italy, has yielded the first archaeological evidence of cann...
The music you should play at a party to ensure con...
It is easier to focus on conversations when background music is playing if the song is unfamiliar to...
Physicists have worked out how to pour water as qu...
The sound of pouring water into a cup can be tamped down by changing the height of the pour or the d...
Our neighbor the Andromeda Galaxy shines overhead ...
Located at a distance of 2.5 million light-years, the Andromeda Galaxy is readily visible to the una...
COP28: How this year shattered nearly every modern...
The COP28 climate summit kicked off with a report on the many records broken in 2023, including unpr...
The battle to bring beavers back to Scotland
The reintroduction of beavers has already transformed parts of the Scottish landscape and provided m...
ISS astronauts watch Russian cargo ship burn up in...
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli watched Russia's Progress MS-23 cargo ship burn up in Earth's atmosph...
Cannabis probably doesn't help you sleep better
Many people take cannabis to help them sleep, but there is little evidence that the drug makes a dif...
Watch Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket fire its engine...
A newly released video from the European Space Agency highlights a recent wet dress rehearsal for th...
Artemis 2 moon astronauts autograph their own rock...
Just one year before flying around the moon, the Artemis 2 astronauts autographed a part of the mass...
Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long befo...
Ancient footprints found in Lesotho resemble those left by birds, but they were made around 60 milli...
China releases 1st images of complete Tiangong spa...
The crew of China's Shenzhou 16 mission captured incredible images of the Tiangong Space Station as ...
