July 5, 2018

Here’s why the internet could be the most powerful earthquake detection system ever

The internet isn’t your phone. It’s not Instagram, YouTube, or Netflix. Behind those apparitions, the internet is actually a sprawling

32 years on, this is how life thrives in the radioactive Chernobyl zone

Shortly after midnight on 26 April 1986, the name Chernobyl became synonymous with nuclear disaster. A nuclear power station in

We just found out spiders can use electricity to fly through the air

Sometimes, when it rains or when they feel the urge to migrate, spiders get out their little silk knapsacks, and

Here’s why older people can seem more racist – it’s not just their upbringing

It’s become something of a national meme in the UK that 97-year-old Prince Philip might say something culturally insensitive when

Our Milky Way had a cosmic cataclysm with a ‘sausage galaxy’ billions of years ago

It turns out that our galaxy looks the way it does today thanks to a run-in with something called the

These scientists have a tantalising new answer to the mysterious ‘Gaia puzzle’

We will likely never know how life on Earth started. Perhaps in a shallow sunlit pool. Or in the crushing

IVF embryo breakthrough could save the nearly extinct northern white rhino

A 28-year-old rhinoceros named Najin and her daughter, Fatu, are the only northern white rhinos on the planet. They live