The amount of close and comforting contact that young infants get doesn’t just keep them warm, snug, and loved. A
When the end of the world comes, how will you tweet? Thankfully for those of us who didn’t have a
A strange, undulating blob found in the waters of Ørstafjorden in Norway has turned out to be a rare sight:
You might not know the term ‘oobleck’, but it’s highly likely you came across it as a kid. Also known as
It’s been a busy week for astrophysicist Michel Mayor. On Tuesday, he won a Nobel Prize for his work detecting exoplanets. Then, on
There’s a fish that can live on land. Georgia officials want you to kill it immediately. A northern snakehead fish
Unlike some creatures, humans can’t regenerate their limbs – but a new study suggests we do have a hidden ‘salamander-like’
Ninety-nine per cent of all freshwater ice on Earth is sitting on top of Greenland and Antarctica, and each year,
Those Knightscope security robots may not be so great at their jobs. When a woman in a park near Los
The Moon is a pretty inhospitable place for humans. It’s all dry and dusty, and there’s no atmosphere for us
NASA astronomers have used data from the Voyager probes to measure the bustle of particles rippling at the very edge
With red-flag warnings in place and an “extreme” fire risk for parts of Northern California on Wednesday that is expected
A seemingly strange demise has befallen five cattle on the Silvies Valley Ranch in remote eastern Oregon. Reports from NPR and
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the
Some of the strongest magnetic fields ever detected in the Universe come from magnetars. Now, we might finally know how
At its heart, climate change denial is a conflict between facts and values. People deny the climate crisis because, to
Over millions of years, humans have developed a talent for transforming bits of nature into objects that make daily tasks
Humans have been mining diamonds for a long time, but a new stone hauled from the belly of the Earth
A cosmologist who revealed that the universe was made mostly of invisible matter and energy, and two scientists who detected
Space food is notoriously lacklustre, but new technology is slowly revolutionising the way astronauts eat. Whereas the first astronauts in
Scientists have observed a quantum vibration at normal room temperature for the first time, a phenomenon that usually requires ultra-cold,
Following the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown – the world’s worst nuclear accident – authorities cordoned off the most contaminated areas around
In early September 1859, something world-changing occurred. Earth was wracked by a monumental solar storm, which lashed our magnetosphere with
When the last of Earth’s woolly mammoths expired, they were isolated on Wrangel Island in the frigid Arctic Ocean, north of
Six elephants died while trying to save each other after a baby elephant fell from a waterfall in a Thai
For the first time, astronomers have obtained high-resolution images of a binary star system in the early stages of formation,
Blind people who use echoes to map their surroundings, akin to how bats or dolphins navigate, have an adapted brain
Saturn has unseated Jupiter as the Solar System’s most moon-bearing planet, the Carnegie Institution for Science announced on Monday. Scientists
Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) rarely get a break from their cramped quarters. Only on occasion do they
According to the most widely-accepted cosmological models, the first galaxies began to form between 13 and 14 billion years ago.
Our diets can have a big environmental impact. The greenhouse gas emissions involved in producing and transporting various foods has
Not unlike the movie “Okja,” where a company breeds massive pigs to maximize profits, some Chinese farmers are growing larger
Research suggests there could be a good scientific reason why some of us struggle to look someone in the eye
From its red and rugged surface, Mars looks like a lifeless planet, both dry and desolate. But that hasn’t always
Twinship has become a cultural phenomenon in the United States over the past three decades, with a higher proportion of
Scientists have been able to teach birds simple songs they’ve never heard before by selectively activating specific neurons in their
When China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft landed on the lunar far side on 3 January 2019, it made history. It was the
In a death-defying maneuver for the spacecraft, NASA’s Juno has completed an unprecedented and unplanned engine burn. The purpose? To
Just less than 13,000 years ago, the climate cooled for a short while in many parts of the world, especially
We know that our planet has experienced warmer periods in the past, during the Pliocene geological epoch around three million
You might be familiar with the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, where the eponymous feline in a box can be both
The centre of the Milky Way galaxy is a relatively calm place now (compared to other galactic centres), but that
In April, an international team of scientists captured the first-ever photo of a black hole. In September, they won a US$3
According to local news reports in Chile, something was seen blazing a trail across the sky over the island of
A new study comparing human skulls with those of other animals claims that the dimensions of our heads appear to
The most significant pterosaur fossil ever discovered in Australia has been unearthed in the Winton area of central western Queensland.
They may not have the muscles and reflexes of the animal kingdom, but that doesn’t mean plants just passively sit
Astronomers across the globe were quick to begin studying 2I/Borisov – the second known interstellar object to visit our solar
