Back in 2017, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure
You’ve probably heard before that Earth has witnessed five mass extinctions. It’s a number plucked straight from the fossil record,
What comes to mind when you hear the words “artificial intelligence”? Perhaps you think of Apple’s digital assistant, Siri, or
Silicon has had a very good run as the material upon which all of our electronics are based, but it’s
Last Wednesday, a gravitational wave detection gave astronomers quite the surprise. As researchers were going about their work at the
Sounds like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was just kicked out of mom’s basement. In an inexplicable tweet, DARPA
Given the extravagant profusion of moons in our own Solar System, it seems likely that there are way more exomoons
We’re sure you have your favourite animal. It may even be a really smart one. But corvids – such as
Examples of how human societies are changing the planet abound – from building roads and houses, clearing forests for agriculture
Across the Caribbean this week, island residents docked boats, emptied grocery stores, and boarded up buildings in preparation for Hurricane
The brain is the ultimate computing machine, so it’s no wonder researchers are keen to try and emulate it. Now, new
Here’s a simple how-to on how to construct a traversable cosmic wormhole that could send your spaceship to the furthest
With the Cold War over and our future on fire, few of us devote much thought to nuclear winter in
How are black holes born? Astrophysicists have theories, but we don’t actually know for certain. It could be massive stars
A new study has revealed an unsettling truth about the citation metrics that are commonly used to gauge scientists’ level
For the first time, brain tissue grown in a lab has spontaneously exhibited electrical activity, and it looks startlingly similar
Development of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been beleaguered by delays since the project started all the way
In 2017, the Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn, ending an exploratory mission that had lasted nearly two decades. But even
Fundamentally, the cranes that dot city skylines today aren’t hugely different from the ones that the Greeks invented sometime around
It was supposed to be extinct by now. The invasive tumbleweed Salsola ryanii only popped up on scientists’ scopes in
Astronomers have found an exoplanet with an absolute doozy of an orbit. Rather than a nice, more-or-less circular path around
Another face of our Australopithecus ancestors can now peer at us from further back in time than ever before, after
Fires in the Amazon rainforest have captured attention worldwide in recent days. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office in
After what SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk called an “embarrassing” glitch with Starhopper, an experimental rocket ship, the company pulled off
Manta rays usually like to swim on their own, but that doesn’t mean these creatures are complete loners. Despite their reputation
If all the hydro-power dams in the United States were removed and replaced with solar panels, it would take up
Amongst all of Earth’s abundant life, microorganisms have proven time and time again that they can live just about anywhere.
Water is a weird molecule, and no matter how many strange things about it we discover, it seems like there
There’s more than one way to look at a galaxy. Once you strip out all the lowest-energy electromagnetic radiation, you’re
It was the largest, most elaborate society the Americas had ever seen. And it was about to come to an
An uncrewed, solar-powered military plane has just broken its spaceflight-duration record, having now spent more than 719 days in orbit
Three new exoplanets have been found orbiting a nearby star, and one of them is ranked pretty highly for potential
An international team of scientists trying to save the northern white rhino from extinction has just announced another significant victory. Yesterday
“Why don’t we nuke them?” President Donald Trump asked during a White House briefing about hurricanes, according to an Axios
Black holes are some of the most powerful and fascinating phenomena in our Universe, but due to their tendency to
When two neutron stars collide, it’s not like we can just pop up there with a thermometer to measure the
There are only two of them now: Najin, and her daughter, Fatu. This small family unit is all that remains
Saturday 24 August 2019 marked a vexing anniversary for planetary scientists. It was 13 years to the day that Pluto’s
A gigantic floating raft of volcanic rock that emerged from an underwater volcano eruption in the Pacific Ocean is slowly
Many of us know that feeling of waking up, headache in tow, struggling to remember what we said and did
In the digital age, connectivity and bandwidth are important, even if you’re in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). And when you’re
A NASA satellite captured harrowing images of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere due to the wildfires that continue to rage
Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and
In 2014, we travelled to the northern boreal forests of Canada to set experimental fires that would help us understand
Palm tree-like Cycads are flowering and could possibly reproduce in the UK for the first time in human history –
No matter how many images we see of our Solar System, we never get tired of gazing out into space,
A magnetar that recently erupted with a storm of activity may have given us a lead on the mystery of
The study of exoplanets has matured considerably in the last 10 years. During this time, the majority of the over
