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We evolved to match local micronutrient levels, wh...
Most human populations evolved to cope with low or high local levels of micronutrients such as zinc,...
Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking'...
An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational ...
NASA hasn't found life on Mars yet – but signs are...
A rock found last year on the surface of Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed on...
Which perimenopause treatments actually work?
For women going through perimenopause, there is no shortage of advice on how to deal with the sympto...
Tiny structure in the brain could be driving how m...
A part of the brain that is about the size of a sunflower seed in people could play a big role in ou...
Asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing throu...
Samples retrieved from asteroid Ryugu indicate that it once had flowing water in far greater volumes...
Get ready to view Saturn at its closest point to E...
The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ telescope is on sale for $367 on Amazon and is a great bud...
Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without ma...
If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a...
Did NASA's Perseverance rover find evidence of anc...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found yet more chemical signatures that could be associated with ...
Gravitational wave detector confirms theories of E...
Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black ho...
SpaceX launches 1st 21 satellites for advanced new...
SpaceX launched 21 satellites to orbit from California today (Sept. 10), beginning the buildout of a...
Enjoy the new moon and Autumnal Equinox dark skies...
The Celestron TrailSeeker 8x42mm binoculars come highly recommended by our experts, and with a savin...
March 2026 total lunar eclipse: Everything you nee...
A total lunar eclipse on March 2-4, 2026, will be visible in North America and will be the last tota...
Working on a 39-foot telescope dish | Space photo ...
Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black h...
The weird ringed dwarf planet Quaoar may have an e...
"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — goi...
Iridescent mammals are much more common than we th...
It has long been claimed that only one mammal – the golden mole – has fur that shimmers with rainbow...
SpaceX targets Sept. 23 for launch of NASA's IMAP ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on Sept. 23 will send three spacecraft a million miles from Earth to map th...
Astronomers discover repeating gamma-ray burst 'un...
A newly discovered gamma-ray burst is unlike any seen before, repeating over the course of a day rat...
Fossilized micrometeorites record ancient carbon d...
A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere wh...
‘Great Migration’ involves far fewer wildebeest th...
An estimate that as many as 1.3 million wildebeest move across the Serengeti Mara landscape each yea...
'Directive 8020' is 'The Thing' in space, but is d...
Directive 8020 is shaking up the Supermassive Games formula for better and for worse.
How cosmic events may have influenced hominin evol...
Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neand...
'Artificial super astronauts': How AI and robotics...
In the not-too-distant future, "artificial astronauts" could fly as actual crew members on human mis...
You could help NASA track its Artemis 2 astronauts...
As part of the Artemis 2 astronaut moon mission launching no earlier than 2026, NASA is asking volun...
NASA to reveal new Perseverance Mars rover discove...
NASA's hosting a teleconference on Wednesday (Sept. 10) to discuss a new rock analysis from the Pers...
Is Earth’s climate in a state of 'termination shoc...
Cleaning up air pollution has saved millions of lives, but it has also given us an inadvertent taste...
Where is the sun in its current 11-year solar cycl...
Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cyc...
Astronauts capture amazing views of the total luna...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured great shots of the total lunar eclipse ov...
The race back to the moon: What if China lands its...
"The country that lands on the moon first will shape the rules of engagement in space for decades to...
The hitchhiker's guide to literary sci-fi: A trivi...
From dystopian futures to interstellar adventures, this quiz explores the classics that dared to ima...
Small black holes are surprisingly messy eaters, J...
It isn't just supermassive black holes that are messy eaters. Using a Japanese space telescope calle...
Moon blocks satellite views of the sun before luna...
Two NOAA satellites saw a solar eclipse on Sept. 7 as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before...
Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from...
A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice con...
Ready for the next 'Oumuamua? Launching flyby miss...
Conducting a flyby mission to an interstellar object visiting our solar system is "feasible and affo...
Spacecraft launcher named for robot in 'Interstell...
A new low-cost concept for interstellar travel combines solar power with a slingshot, but it would t...
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is approaching Earth — w...
The comet will come closest to Earth on Oct. 20. There's hope that it may become bright enough to gl...
SpaceX test fires next Super Heavy booster for Sta...
SpaceX conducted a static-fire test with Super Heavy booster B15 on Sunday (Sept. 7), preparing the ...
Can a strange new treatment finally relieve chroni...
Constant loss of smell, facial pain and a blocked nose are a reality for the 10 per cent of people l...
Resistance training may strengthen your gut microb...
People who made the greatest gains in muscle power over eight weeks of resistance training also impr...
'EVE Online''s space survival spinoff uses realist...
'EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models,...
The September Epsilon Perseids meteor shower peaks...
The shooting stars appear to emanate from a patch of space in the constellation Perseus.
ISS astronaut Jonny Kim says controlling robots on...
The only problem with being an astronaut? Less time for video gaming.
Florida's anti-vaccine push leads dangerous shift ...
Florida may soon become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including those for schoolchild...
Exoplanet 40 light years from Earth may have right...
The planet TRAPPIST-1e lies in its star’s Goldilocks zone, where water remains liquid – and an analy...
US Congress is holding a UFO hearing tomorrow abou...
A U.S. House of Representatives task force will once again hold a hearing on Sept. 9 to hear from wi...
Sculpted head hints at hair fashion for ancient hu...
A carved figure found in northern France, dated to 27,000 years ago, may reflect how hair was styled...
Does the nearby exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e support life...
The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated the "Goldilocks zone" planet TRAPPIST-1e to search f...
We’ve glimpsed the secret quantum landscape inside...
A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physic...
1st known interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua is an 'ex...
"'Oumuamua is in a different category of object. It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more ...
