It’s no secret that bottled water has more of an impact on the environment than filling up a bottle from
Abrupt disruptions to Earth’s climate thousands of years ago that caused extreme sea-level rise and mass ice cap melting can
Particle accelerators are hugely important in the study of the matter of the Universe, but the ones we think of
One of the annoying things about global warming – besides the likelihood it will ravage life on Earth – is
The ocean is vast, and deep, and dark, and inhospitable to us feeble land-dwelling creatures. There’s much that remains unknown
A network of strange features discovered underground at the south pole of Mars may not be lakes of liquid salty
Paleontologists have uncovered an enormous fossil graveyard of squiggly, alien-like Jurassic sea creatures beneath a limestone quarry in the UK’s
A new Russian space-station module malfunctioned after it docked on Thursday. The module, called Nauka, starting unexpectedly firing its thrusters
Pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Yes, water found in nature conducts electricity – but that’s because of the
When Derek Muller took an experimental land yacht for a spin this spring, he wasn’t aiming to stir up scientific
Exoplanets are tricksy little beasts. As they are very small, very dim, and very far away, seeing them directly is
Iceland may be the last exposed remnant of a nearly Texas-size continent – called Icelandia – that sank beneath the
So extreme is the magnetic and gravitational environment around a black hole that we should see light bend around it
What makes one person more creative than another? Creativity is hard to define and perhaps even more difficult to measure,
Polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are known as ‘forever chemicals’ because they don’t naturally break down in the environment. Now
Within the remains of 890-million-year-old microbial reefs – a world that was dominated by bacteria and algae – lie possible
In the hands of a trained archeologist, a well-preserved grave can be read like an obituary, detailing the health, death,
The jawbone of a bat that lived 100,000 years ago has been confirmed as belonging to an extinct species of
Charles Darwin famously discussed the “imperfections” of the geological record in his book On The Origin of Species. He correctly
A wall of sand over 100 meters (300 feet) high swallowed a city on the fringes of the Gobi desert
Earth is swallowing up more carbon from its atmosphere than scientists previously thought, new research suggests. This discovery may change
Push materials to their limits, and strange things can occur – such as the discovery of a previously unknown phase
A new study by scientists has demonstrated how researchers may be able to create an accelerating jet of antimatter from
Archaeologists have discovered the 2,200-year-old wreck of an ancient Egyptian ship that sank after being struck with giant blocks from
Astronomers have discovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede for the first time. Ganymede, the
In April 1998, light from the explosive death of a massive star 120 million light-years away irradiated Earth. This was
A lagoon in Argentina’s southern Patagonia region has turned bright pink in a striking, but frightful phenomenon experts and activists
In a strange turn of events, researchers in Mexico have announced they plan to rebury an unusual archaeological monument found
In 2018, a message in a bottle dating back to 1886 – 132 years ago – was found half-buried in
A newly developed method of levitating and manipulating tiny objects using sound waves could represent a major step forward for
Planetary formation is a complicated, multilayered process. Even with the influx of data on exoplanets, there are still only two
The “little helicopter that could” has done it again. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, a tissue-box-sized rotorcraft that landed with
Making sense of the world after birth, let alone navigating it, isn’t something we expect human infants to do. Baby
Spanish prison authorities were baffled after a prisoner who was declared dead by three separate doctors woke up in the
Space is full of hazards. The Earth, and its atmosphere, does a great job of shielding us from most of
Dig a teaspoon into your nearest clump of soil, and what you’ll emerge with will contain more microorganisms than there
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before
An immobile probe sitting like a squat turtle on the surface of Mars has finally delivered a comprehensive picture of
Scientists on Thursday unveiled the most exhaustive database yet of the proteins that form the building blocks of life, in
The Tollund Man is one of the most famous ‘bog bodies’ ever discovered in northern Europe. Even though the 30-
Average life expectancy in the US plummeted by a year and a half in 2020 – the largest single-year decline
Australia’s sulphur-crested cockatoos have rapidly turned into big city birds. In Sydney, these large, white, and noisy parrots (Cacatua galerita) have fully
The world’s coral reefs have reached a precipice, and only we can pull them back from the brink. According to
At the bottom of the Treporti Channel, meters beneath the waves of the Venetian Lagoon, a series of surprising ancient
Fifty-two years after the first historical Moon landing, we’ve been given a brand new perspective of a classic Apollo-era photo.
Looking like the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, an ancient undersea volcano was slowly revealed by
Extreme weather is striking all over the world, illustrating how vulnerable swathes of humanity are to natural disasters. Some events
A mangled trilobite, found fossilized in Czechia, looks like it narrowly escaped becoming lunch more than 450 million years ago.
