Research exploring how people forget things appears to have unintentionally stimulated better memory among its participants, a new study suggests.
When it comes to the weather report, it’s not just tomorrow’s weather that meteorologists try to discern. As well as
A comet so huge it was initially mistaken for a dwarf planet is on an inward-bound trajectory from the outer
Space exploration requires all kinds of interesting solutions to complex problems. There is a branch of NASA designed to support
A cave chamber sealed off by sand for some 40,000 years has been discovered in Vanguard Cave in Gibraltar –
Younger generations are going to grow up in a very different world to that of their parents – and through
Modern-day imaging technology is able to uncover ancient buildings and structures not visible on the surface, and we just got
It may be dry as desert bones these days, but Mars was once so wet that entire landscapes were shaped
The Vinland Map, once thought to be one of the earliest depictions of North America after its discovery by Europeans,
Paleontologists in the UK have found bones at the Isle of Wight that they believe belong to two new species
With powerful legs tipped by dagger-like talons, capable of eviscerating you with a single kick, cassowaries are the bird that
A huge seismic event that started in May of 2018 and was felt across the entire globe has officially given
The Great Red Spot visible on Jupiter is a swirling anticyclonic storm, the largest of its kind in the Solar
The most energetic light and particles in the Universe represent an enduring mystery: we don’t know where they come from.
On the frozen surface of Lake Baikal in Siberia, nature makes art. There, on the frozen lake, stones can be
An ecologist’s blunder led to the release of a ‘Russian doll’ set of stomach-bursting parasites onto a remote Finnish island,
Astronauts on the International Space Station see remarkable views of Earth every day, but one phenomenon never fails to awe them: the aurora.
If you live at a high latitude, it’s time to break out the camera. Space weather agencies are predicting a
DNA evidence has finally ended the debate about where the ancient Etruscans – an ancient civilization whose remains are found in
There are many reports based on scientific research that talk about the long-term impacts of climate change – such as
It’s something that has long been suspected. Now, we have evidence from a new study – once the Autopilot self-driving
A new telescope system has managed to capture the highest resolution image of the Moon ever taken from Earth using
Let’s face it. Sex isn’t always worth the effort. For many animals, the whole mating game is so inconvenient, going
Researchers have managed to keep tabs on 1 million different neurons in the brains of mice at one time –
They’re incredible. Amazing. Magical. But perhaps the most fantastic thing about lucid dreams – in which the dreamer becomes aware
One of the most spectacular Einstein rings ever seen in space is enabling us to see what’s happening in a
Our planet and everything that lives on it is buckling under the weight of all the plastic waste we’re producing.
Using data from multiple telescopes, scientists have detected clouds on a gas giant exoplanet some 520 light-years from Earth. So
Culturally, this is an era in which people are held in high esteem when they stick with their beliefs and
Nobody ever said parenting was easy, but depending on circumstances, some people can find it much harder than others. In
A new discovery offers definitive evidence that humans were in North America far earlier than archaeologists previously thought – a
NASA’s Mars InSight lander has detected its three most powerful quakes yet. On 25 August, InSight detected two quakes, at
As the polar ice sheets melt, the process is not just raising sea levels – it’s also warping the underlying
Easter Island’s famous megaliths have relatives on islands thousands of miles to the north and west – and so did
Microplastics are everywhere. Even what should be untouched wildernesses – the icy plains of Antarctica, the crushing depths of the
Now, perhaps more than ever, engineers and scientists have been taking inspiration from nature when developing new technologies. This is
Cracks are appearing on the International Space Station (ISS), and retired NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd says they’re a “fairly serious issue.” After
The magnificently long, spined tails of ancient dinosaurs are unlike anything that’s alive today. New research suggests that they elegantly
Reservoir computing is already one of the most advanced and most powerful types of artificial intelligence that scientists have at
It may not appear so to us, but the space between the stars isn’t completely empty. Tenuous and not-so-tenuous clouds
Catchy songs that ‘go viral’ are downloaded in a way that closely resembles the spread of an actual virus, according
NASA is embarking on a new Moon shot, aiming to one day build a permanent crewed station on the lunar
About 1,500 years ago, Maya builders crafted a massive pyramid out of rock that had been ejected by a volcano,
The unusually large hole that opened up in the ozone layer over the Arctic last year seems to have been
Modern roads and developments share more similarities with ancient urban centers than we often realize – which is certainly the
The death of a massive star has to be one of the most beautiful endings in the Universe. They eject
A tabletop gravitational wave detector based around a piece of ringing quartz has recorded two mysterious signals in its first
Researchers have rewritten Japanese history after uncovering a third, and previously unknown, group of ancestors that migrated to Japan around
