Science
Algae transformed into a 'biofactory' for green fu...
A strain of green algae has been artificially evolved to turn carbon dioxide into sustainable fuel a...
Using an AI chatbot or voice assistant makes it ha...
Many people enjoy the experience of using AIs like ChatGPT or voice assistants like Alexa to find ou...
The best new science fiction books of August 2024
Josh Malerman, James S. A. Corey and Neal Asher all have new science fiction novels out in August, m...
After ISS: The private space station era is dawnin...
As the end of the ISS looms on the horizon, NASA and private space companies are looking forward to ...
What is 'problematic smartphone use' and should we...
Two studies have linked "problematic smartphone use" to higher rates of anxiety, depression and inso...
People who had severe covid-19 show cognitive decl...
An analysis of people who were hospitalised with covid-19 in the first wave of the pandemic has reve...
Vision loss and high cholesterol recognised as dem...
Fourteen modifiable risk factors are behind nearly half of all dementia cases worldwide, a report cl...
Hubble spots a stunning spiral galaxy shining in t...
A new Hubble Telescope image shines a spotlight on a classic spiral galaxy named NGC 3430.
Magnetic fields on the sun could solve longstandin...
A new study reveals waves of magnetism within the sun could help explain why the sun's outer atmosph...
Nerve fibres in the brain could generate quantum e...
Calculations show that nerve fibres in the brain could emit pairs of entangled particles, and this q...
Can the moon help preserve Earth's endangered spec...
The moon may soon be home to frozen samples of Earth's endangered creatures. New research proposes a...
Moon robots could build stone walls to protect lun...
A robotic excavator could build a dry stone wall to act as a blast shield around a launch pad on the...
Weeding out Olympic doping cheats won't actually e...
Of course the games should go after those who use performance-enhancing drugs to gain an advantage, ...
Ghostly 'zodiacal light' glows above the Very Larg...
A new photo shows the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope beneath a star-studded sk...
We may have found why people experience body dysmo...
People with body dysmorphic disorder seem to have altered activity in a brain pathway involved in at...
'A Quiet Place: Day One' VFX chief on the Death An...
An exclusive interview with Michael Humphreys, the VFX supervisor for "A Quiet Place: Day One."
What is a human? Why the split from our ancestors ...
Fossils found 50 and 100 years ago seemed to pinpoint the moment humanity emerged – but defining a h...
We used 1,000 historical photos to reconstruct Ant...
Although Antarctica is far away, and changing conditions there may seem distant, the changes can hav...
Should we put a frozen backup of Earth's life on t...
Permanently shadowed regions on the moon are the perfect spots for preserving deep-frozen organisms,...
Renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe's lab is home t...
A chemical mystery lurks in the laboratory of Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous astronomers of all...
Northern lights delight as 'cannibal' solar storm ...
A cannibal coronal mass ejection triggered impressive northern lights displays across the US and Can...
Venus returns to the night sky as an 'Evening Star...
As we make the transition from July into August, Venus has finally begun climbing up out of the suns...
Space-junk scout captures amazing fly-around foota...
Astroscale's ADRAS-J space debris inspecting mission completed a series of fly-around maneuvers of i...
No, Boeing Starliner's NASA astronauts are not str...
Boeing Starliner's historic 1st astronaut mission has been extended repeatedly for thruster troubles...
We have discovered an entirely new kind of wood
Tulip trees have a structure that is somewhere between hardwood and softwood – called "midwood" – wh...
These inventive ideas could help Artemis astronaut...
Ten U.K. finalists have been announced in the Aqualunar Challenge, an effort to develop tech that ca...
Google-inspired AI model improves Cape Canaveral s...
An AI-powered weather model inspired by language-processing systems invented by Google is helping Sp...
Astrophotographer peers into a cosmic 'eye' lookin...
The Milky Way looks stunning above the Alqueva Dark Sky preserve in Portugal thanks to this mosaic f...
Astronaut traveling to Titan loses his grip on rea...
The first trailer lands for Bleecker Street's new psychological sci-fi feature, "Slingshot."
The truth about the new class of Alzheimer’s drugs...
Three drugs approved for Alzheimer’s disease have been hailed as a breakthrough in treating the cond...
Dark matter ghosts its way through powerful (and m...
Using data from the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes, scientists have determined that dark matter...
