NASA is targeting technosignatures in its renewed effort to detect alien civilizations. Congress asked NASA to re-boot its search for
The human brain is a remarkable thing. It can do things our primate relatives are thousands – maybe even millions – of
A new study links rapid deoxygenation in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to two powerful currents: the Gulf Stream and
Over the past few days, the mathematics world has been abuzz over the news that Sir Michael Atiyah, the famous
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake has struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, triggering a 1.8-metre (6-foot) tsunami.
A hacker gained access to nearly 50 million Facebook user accounts by exploiting a weakness in the social network’s systems, Facebook said
There’s been more scientific debate over the title of the world’s biggest bird than you might have realised, with many
More than half of the world’s orcas are threatened by a group of toxic industrial chemicals that accumulate in their
The Large Hadron Collider is at it again, showing us new wonders in the world of particle physics. Scientists working
We know, we know, there’s so much internet to read, and so little time. That’s why we’ve been rounding up
You’d probably think that a city with a feral cat population and a feral rat population would end up with
In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband Charles flew across the Yucatán Peninsula. With Charles at
Earlier this week, Japan’s space agency Jaxa made history by landing a pair of hopping rovers on an asteroid known
The plants of the Arctic, typically very low-lying shrubs, are getting taller as the region warms up because of climate
Roughly 24,000 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Cassiopeia, is a dead star that shouldn’t exist. Not, that
Psychologists call it the dark triad: an intersection of three of the most malevolent tendencies of human nature – psychopathy,
Clever and strange, octopuses are fascinating creatures with incredible problem-solving skills and breathtaking camouflage. But overall, they are short-lived, typically
A team of researchers in the UK have observed matter falling into a black hole at 30 percent the speed
Being face to face with wild animals can be a source of great amazement. But there is such a thing
There are just a few hundred of them left in the wild – and now the population of critically endangered
A satellite orbiting Mars has taken a remarkable yet potentially somber photo of NASA’s longest-lived robot on the red planet.
We all know that Earth is old, but it’s hard to put into perspective just how old it is. After
Humanity is producing so much data every single minute that we either need to slow down, or scientists need to
Across the world, the buzz of bee colonies is growing faint, and hives are failing. In what’s been described as
In 1954, archaeologist Samuel Lothrop described the horror show of an ancient burial site he’d excavated in Panama. Hacking, mutilation,
Centuries of human exploitation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest – one of the world’s most important forests – has left it
Four years ago a viral campaign wooed the world with a promise of fighting climate change and jump-starting the economy
Scientists in Australia have solved a bizarre mystery from earlier in the month, when a mother in Queensland found that
After a Hawaiian telescope spotted an object called ‘Oumuamua flying through space in October 2017, astronomers realised it was weird.
Here in the Solar System, the search for extraterrestrial life is focused on microbes. But in recent years, projects such
An ancient Egyptian text more than 1,300 years old, which would originally have been used as a magic spell, has
Everybody knows the world’s got a serious carbon dioxide problem, but an ingenious and potentially cost-effective way of dealing with
To startup founder and Stanford Medical graduate Jesse Karmazin, blood is the next big government-approved drug. Karmazin recently launched Ambrosia
It’s one of the biggest questions in the Solar System: was there ever life on Mars? And, if yes, will
He had rations to last just one week. But somehow an Indonesian teenager who drifted out to sea in a
For the first time, scientists have discovered all-female termite colonies, living and flourishing in Japan. While we know of several
NASA scientists have combined data on our planet’s rotation with a number of sophisticated models to find that melting ice
On a primitive piece of space rock more than 100 million miles (160 million kilometres) from Earth, two tiny robotic
One of the world’s most renowned mathematicians showed how he solved the 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis at a lecture on Monday
Galileo Galilei had one of the brightest scientific minds we’ve ever seen. Amongst his many achievements was helping to finally
Over the last 10 years, it’s estimated there has been a 360 percent rise in veganism in Britain – around
If you were trying to convince another human that you yourself are also human, what would you say? Probably something
It’s called the Meghalayan: an epic stretch of time that spans from around 4,200 years ago right up until the
Praying mantises catch and eat a lot of different animals. All kinds of insects, lizards, and even frogs, snakes, or
A woman in Virginia found a bizarre surprise in her flower bed last week: a copperhead snake with not one,
Hydrogen fuel cells are a greener way to power vehicles. But they have also been cost-prohibitive. Now that’s starting to
Even as the water from Hurricane Florence and the flooding that followed finally began to recede, it left behind a
Elon Musk has provided several new, rare, and telling glimpses into how his rocket company, SpaceX, is building a spacecraft to
