Cormac McCarthy knows a thing or two about good writing. He’s the visionary who gave us The Road, No Country
Time, as far as we know, moves only in one direction. But last year, researchers found events in some gamma-ray
At the edge of our Solar System, some unknown object is manipulating the paths of chunks of ice as they
Superconductivity (passing charges through materials without losing heat) promises to revolutionise electronics and power, if we can get it working
The Tyrannosaurus rex had the strongest bite of any known land animal – extinct or otherwise. The king of the
Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, addressed planet Earth on Saturday night about his latest plans to “extend
Some people can’t sleep if they know there’s a spider in their house. Imagine being in Beaumont, Tex., and thinking
As Tropical Storm Karen withers away, Hurricane Lorenzo has become “one of the largest and most powerful hurricanes of record
Most of the 24 million annual visitors to Queensland don’t notice the series of seemingly innocuous yellow buoys at many
Former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge has pulled off an astonishing career change. In 2017, after quitting the band, he co-founded
Astronomers have spotted three supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the center of three colliding galaxies a billion light years away
For all our perception of supermassive black holes as gravitational vortices ravenously devouring stars, it doesn’t actually happen that often.
You ever watch your pets sleeping? When they twitch their paws and whiskers, and yip and mewl? Well, cats and
Global warming has put a glacier in the Italian Alps at risk of collapse, officials warned, leading to road closures,
Like the deserts of the Antarctic, or the deepest parts of the sea, Mono Lake in California is an inhospitable
We humans have officially entered uncharted territory. In the roughly 2.5 million years our kind has walked the Earth, never
These days we’re used to jaw-dropping photos getting snapped from the International Space Station, but the latest one NASA astronaut
Autonomous driving will bring us a number of freedoms. Passengers will be able to watch movies, read newspapers – if
In the search for the earliest life on Earth, it can be hard to tell whether you’re looking at an
There is such a thing as not enough chaos. In a new study, scientists have discovered that complex calculations performed
The first-ever direct image of a black hole‘s event horizon was a truly impressive feat of scientific ingenuity. But it
As beautiful as Machu Picchu is, it’s not the easiest place to get to, high up in the Andes with
Climate change is already having staggering effects on oceans and ice-filled regions that encompass 80 percent of the Earth, and
After months of debate, the Australian Capital Territory has become the very first jurisdiction in the nation to pass a
We’ve watched the Spot robot quadruped grow up and evolve, from its earliest days as a larger, more cumbersome beast
You don’t belong here. They’re onto you. Everybody is going to find out the truth. It’s only a matter of
For several years now, physicists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been running a landmark experiment, recording tens of
Gigantic underground masses of rock the size of hidden continents could have been concealed inside the planet in virtual isolation
It’s hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of
We just entered a fundamental new epoch in computing. Maybe. Google scientists said we did. Then their declaration mysteriously vanished.
The verdict is in: after conducting a thorough round of observations, the comet suspected of being an interstellar alien has
The map of the world looked very different 240 million years ago. Earth’s modern-day continents were joined together in one
The crypt-keeper wasp is hardly a fussy eater. Given the chance, this creepy parasitic insect will chew through the heads of
There could be another force, even stronger than a hydrogen bond, holding our DNA together, new research suggests. First discovered
When KIC 8462852 – affectionately known as Tabby’s Star – arrived on the scene in 2015, it made one heck
Diamonds are hardly ever perfect. Like us, they carry blemishes and flaws: tiny ‘inclusions’ of ancient chemistry trapped inside their
The second-fastest pulsar ever discovered has been caught spitting out gamma rays, and this surprise discovery could help astronomers better
In a kind of odd man-versus-nature moment, a Russian navy boat was attacked and sunk by a walrus during an
Some 2,500 years ago, in what is today southern Germany, a small child’s body was laid to rest. A bronze
Days after millions of young people took to the streets around the globe to protest for more aggressive action on
For the second time in a month, the world is mourning yet another one of Europe’s majestic glaciers. Once a sight
Many think of dogs as loyal, love-filled companions, and cats as cute beasts that tolerate us – but we might
Venus is not a nice place, by human standards. For a world named after a Roman goddess of love and
For decades, an ancient circle of stones has lain just out of sight beneath the waters of Spain’s Valdecañas Reservoir,
The tiny hole aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that caused so much drama in August of last year is
On 27 June 2018, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency‘s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. As part of JAXA’s
It’s easy to feel hopeless about the future of our world, especially when the latest IPCC report warned that we
In the most extreme regions of the Universe, galaxies are being killed. Their star formation is being shut down and
