May 6, 2019

Arsenic-breathing life forms have been discovered in the Pacific Ocean

Amongst the huge variety of life on Earth, there are some mighty resilient microorganisms out there. Now, scientists have tracked down

This 1,000-year-old shaman’s bag contained various psychotropic drugs, including coke

Native American shamans living in South America 1,000 years ago had quite the pharmacopoeia in their toolkits. A shaman’s bag

What if we turned the Sahara Desert into a giant solar farm?

Whenever I visit the Sahara I am struck by how sunny and hot it is and how clear the sky

An astrophysicist just calculated the insanely complex waveform of two colliding black holes

Thanks to recent groundbreaking observations, we now know that two colliding black holes produce gravitational waves – ripples in the

Here’s what happened when the world’s space agencies simulated a killer asteroid impact

On 29 April, 2027, a terrible and world-changing event occurred. A 60-metre (200-foot) asteroid called 2019 PDCentered Earth’s atmosphere at

UN warns of ‘biological annihilation’ as the 6th extinction event unfolds on our planet

An ever-growing body of evidence suggests the planet may be in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. The phrase

Time going too fast? A psychologist explains what you can do to slow it down

Sometimes it seems as if life is passing us by. When we are children, time ambles by, with endless car

You’re about to have a rare chance to see this usually obscure meteor shower

Never heard of the Eta Aquarid meteors? 2019 offers a good chance to check out this normally obscure meteor shower.

A man says he swallowed an AirPod, and it still worked in his stomach

A man in Taiwan found that his AirPod was still functional after he had accidentally swallowed it, according to a