Science
The Human Mind review: Ambitious, up-to-the-minute...
From perception and behaviour to choice and morality, psychologist Paul Bloom’s book on the mind tak...
Kangaroo faeces could reduce methane emissions fro...
Faeces from baby kangaroos helped slash the amount of methane produced by bacteria in an artificial ...
Hubble Telescope gazes into the heart of a monstro...
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope gazes into the lair of a cosmic leviathan, a monstrous c...
Israeli startup WeSpace aims to launch robotic 'mo...
WeSpace wants to get in on the ground floor of the lunar economy by providing access to unexplored r...
Robot injected in the skull spreads its tentacles ...
A soft robot inserted through a hole in the skull can deploy six sensor-filled legs on the surface o...
Mystery solved? Runaway black hole chased by tail ...
A 200,000-light-year-long chain of stars originally thought to be trailing a runaway black hole may ...
Saturn now has over 100 known moons - more than an...
Astronomers are still discovering new natural satellites of Saturn and Jupiter, with the latest upda...
Vast Space to launch 1st private station on SpaceX...
California-based startup Vast Space plans to launch its Haven-1 space station aboard a SpaceX Falcon...
Hubble telescope spies 'peek-a-boo' exoplanets ami...
Astronomers are watching a shadow sweep across the face of a vast disc of planet-birthing gas and du...
What is the human pangenome and why do we need it?...
A sequence for the human genome was first published in 2001, but this original reference doesn't ref...
Your body wash may make you more attractive to mos...
Better understanding the ingredients in personal care products that ward off the insects may lead to...
Superconducting qubits have passed a key quantum t...
A Bell test can confirm whether two systems are truly entangled – it has now been used to confirm en...
China launches cargo mission to Tiangong space sta...
China's Tianzhou 6 freighter lifted off on Wednesday (May 10), sending clothing, food, water and pro...
'Oppenheimer' trailer reveals Cillian Murphy as Ma...
Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for director Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."
Ageing is inevitable, but we may soon treat it lik...
Getting older is a fact of life, but there are promising signs that we may be able to intervene to s...
How we could discover quantum gravity without rebu...
In the search for a theory that unites general relativity and quantum physics, many have tried to re...
Why the mind-body connection is vital to understan...
The key to solving the hard problem of consciousness could lie in the body not the brain, with our g...
The weird truth about calories and why food labels...
A new understanding of nutrition and how our bodies use calories from food explains why balancing di...
Young star shoots out jet like a garden sprinkler ...
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured a snaking jet of matter expelled f...
Watch SpaceX launch 51 Starlink satellites to orbi...
SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (May 10), an...
Who is Cosmo the Spacedog? All you need to know ab...
A history of Cosmo the Spacedog in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise.
Colour-changing wrap could let you know when food ...
A biodegradable plastic-like wrap made from silk changes colour when exposed to rotting foods and de...
Ceiling robots can reconfigure room lights and cur...
Robots that magnetically attach to the ceiling can rearrange living and working spaces by controllin...
SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission will grow 1s...
The Ax-2 mission will test the effect of microgravity in space on the growth of stem cells.
The mystery of how Mars meteorites reach Earth may...
The mystery of how meteorites from Mars can reach Earth may have been solved, as scientists discover...
Space junk cleanup mission to launch in 2026 aboar...
A spacecraft operated by Swiss startup ClearSpace will target a piece of debris in orbit after getti...
What time is it on the moon? How a lunar clock deb...
What time is it on the moon? One wristwatch tried to answer that question, yet was largely forgotten...
China to launch communications relay satellite to ...
Queqiao 2 ('Magpie Bridge 2') will launch early next year and will be used to support China's upcomi...
Apparent meteorite strikes house in New Jersey (ph...
A meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in New Jersey on Monday (May 8). No one was injured b...
Rare 'backward' sunspot could create supercharged ...
A reverse polarity sunspot is continuing to bombard Earth with powerful solar flares and ejections o...
Enormous M87 galaxy looks like giant potato in 1st...
Astronomers have created a 3D map of the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and gotten a better es...
The Eta Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight. Stay up...
The annual Eta Lyrid meteor shower lasts from May 3 to May 14 this year and will produce its most pr...
China builds simulated moon chamber to prep for cr...
Chinese scientists have built a chamber to simulate the conditions on the surface of the moon to hel...
