June 5, 2019

This crazy fuel efficient plane design has passengers sitting in its wings

The Dutch airline KLM is funding the development of a V-shaped aeroplane designed to seat passengers in its wings to

Astronomers have taken actual, direct images of a pair of planets being born

PDS 70, the star that last year gave us the first ever confirmed direct image of a planet being born,

New York is Poised to Become the First US State to Ban Declawing Cats

New York is one signature away from becoming the first state in the country to ban cat declawing, a practice

Could Chernobyl happen again? These 10 reactors have scientists concerned

The world has learned many lessons from the Chernobyl disaster, a devastating nuclear power plant accident that recently rejoined our cultural

Experiment shows bees can understand a symbolic language for mathematics

Do you need another reason to love bees? Not only can our fuzzy little flower friends perform basic arithmetic, scientists

Ancient humans may have made cutting tools thousands of years earlier than we thought

If the dating of a number of East African artefacts turns out to be correct, the emergence of our genus

Climate change could end human civilisation as we know it by 2050, analysis finds

A doomsday ending to climate change is not inevitable, but the situation is becoming ever more desperate. Without immediate and

What HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ gets right (and wrong) about the worst nuclear accident ever

Retelling the 1986 Chernobyl disaster is an exercise in unburying the truth. In the wake of the world’s worst nuclear

Australia’s First Known Dinosaur Herd Discovered Hidden in Glittering Fossils

Australia’s dinosaur record is one of the most poorly understood, with only a handful of species discovered in the past