August 3, 2018

Sweden’s weather has been so hot its tallest mountain is shrinking

The southern peak of the massif of Kebnekaise is the tallest mountain in Sweden, but it might not hold the

Can a jump save you in a falling elevator? Here’s the maths

It’s a nightmarish scenario – the elevator seals you inside, rises several floors, judders to a halt, and then SNAP!

Human’s just created the coldest spot in space – here’s why

Despite decades of ongoing research, scientists are trying to understand how the four fundamental forces of the Universe fit together.

There is an absolutely gigantic rogue planet wandering our galactic neighbourhood

There is a very strange object floating around our stellar neighbourhood and it has astronomers intrigued. It’s very large, and

‘Strange metals’ have revealed a completely new kind of electric current

The metal lanthanum strontium copper oxide might not mean much to most of us, but to physicists it just might

LIDAR shown to be a powerful new tool in the hunt for missing murder victims

Unmarked graves, such as those in which murder victims are often callously concealed, may soon be easier to locate, thanks

Scientists have identified that earthquakes can trigger tremors a world away

Aftershocks are a common feature of big earthquakes, but they usually occur relatively close to the tremor’s epicenter. For the

NASA predicts SpaceX will be ready to take humans to space by April 2019

NASA wants to stop relying on Russia to get American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). And little by

Ancient lake offers new clues to why Mayan civilisation collapsed

The sediment under a lake in Mexico contains some of the long-sought answers to the mystery of the Mayan demise.

Stop what you’re doing and watch meteoroids slamming into the Moon

There are a lot of rocks up there in space, whizzing about and occasionally smacking into other objects. Here on

These lemurs have good reasons for rubbing toxic millipedes on their butts

In a rare and fortuitous moment, scientists have caught Madagascar’s red-fronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) gnawing on toxic millipedes and rubbing