Science
Shortage of pollinators could be killing 427,000 p...
Inadequate numbers of bees and other pollinators have a huge impact on human health due to lower pro...
Winter solstice 2022 brings the longest night of t...
The winter solstice is today (Dec. 21), marking the official start of astronomical winter in the Nor...
8 ways the James Webb Space Telescope is revolutio...
One year after its launch, the flagship space telescope is already making discoveries that are trans...
Parasitic DNA makes us age faster - but we're not ...
Genetic parasites called retrotransposons become more active as we age, and an animal study suggests...
Twitter security flaw may leave videos sent in dir...
Videos sent in Twitter direct messages can theoretically be viewed by anyone, a weakness that could ...
Europe's Vega C rocket fails on 2nd-ever mission, ...
Europe's Vega C rocket failed during its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20), which was s...
It may be possible to traverse a wormhole and then...
When matter falls into a wormhole, the wormhole is expected to collapse – but a probe may be able to...
Small and speedy animals perceive time faster than...
A comparison of 138 species finds that dragonflies perceive changes in their environment five times ...
COP15 biodiversity deal is ‘new era’ for Indigenou...
The agreement made at the COP15 biodiversity summit balanced a recognition of the importance of Indi...
Two potentially habitable Earth-like worlds orbit ...
Astronomers have discovered two Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf near our solar system tha...
Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct spacewalk early We...
Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk early Wednesday (Dec. 21) to install new solar arrays o...
Zero-G flight for disability ambassadors shows spa...
AstroAccess flew 14 individuals from 5 countries on a parabolic research flight Dec. 15, to open up ...
SpaceX aims to start launching next-gen Starlink s...
SpaceX will soon start launching a new generation of Starlink broadband satellites, which could help...
Strange arrangement of Milky Way's groupie galaxie...
Scientists may have explained the mysterious distribution of small satellite galaxies around our Mil...
NASA's InSight lander on Mars goes silent as power...
NASA lost contact with its Mars InSight lander on Monday (Dec. 18) after the spacecraft failed to re...
Shock wave from sun has opened up a crack in Earth...
A mysterious shock wave in a gust of solar wind has sent a barrage of high-speed material smashing i...
Salute Apollo 17's 50th anniversary with freshly r...
NASA restoration wizard Andy Saunders on Apollo 17's restored photos in his new book, "Apollo Remast...
DeepMind’s AI cuts energy costs for cooling buildi...
Research firm DeepMind has built an AI to optimise cooling systems in buildings. In tests, it reduce...
Watch Europe's Vega C rocket launch its 2nd missio...
Europe's Vega C rocket is scheduled to launch on its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20),...
Living in trees may have given great apes vocal sk...
A comparison of consonant-like sounds in great apes suggests an arboreal lifestyle may have been a s...
China picks 4 international payloads for historic ...
China has revealed that four international experiments will fly on its historic Chang'e 6 sample-ret...
Ursid meteor shower shines with ideal dark sky con...
The moon will be at new moon phase on Dec. 23 when the Ursid meteor shower reaches its peak, meaning...
Why are children catching so many illnesses this w...
Many countries in the northern hemisphere are seeing surges of childhood respiratory infections like...
Europa's icy crust may let more material into hidd...
New research shows that even smaller impacts can warm and soften enough ice on Jupiter's moon Europa...
Superdense neutron star likely has solid crust, NA...
NASA's IXPE space telescope observed a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field in X-rays for the...
Lyme disease may spread further by helping ticks s...
Ticks infected with the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease are more likely to survive winter, co...
This may be the last Mars photo from NASA's InSigh...
This photo from NASA's InSight lander on Mars just may be its last as the power-starved lander appro...
Why haven't aliens contacted Earth? New Fermi Para...
We have absolutely no evidence for any extraterrestrial civilization, let alone life. This is Fermi'...
This Venom-like magnetic slime robot was a big hit...
A magnetic slime robot that drew comparisons to the Marvel character Venom could navigate through na...
Hole spotted in leaky Russian Soyuz spacecraft
An inspection of the leaky Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station has re...
COP15: Treaty may unravel over last-minute dispute...
A landmark biodiversity agreement was hammered out at the COP15 biodiversity summit over objections ...
Boldly go: SpaceX to launch diversity tribute to '...
A commitment to diversity honoring "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry will soon blast off to the f...
Under pressure! Watch a Lockheed Martin inflatable...
Lockheed Martin has been blowing up its in-development inflatable space habitat in more ways than on...
Something weird is happening in Jupiter's atmosphe...
Something odd is happening in Jupiter's atmosphere, a new study has revealed.
Megadrought on Earth affected gravity waves at the...
An intense drought that has persisted on Earth for over two decades is now thought to have affected ...
Lasers used to throw and catch single atoms for fi...
Extremely cold atoms were thrown with one laser beam and caught with another. The technique could be...
