NASA postponed a spacewalk on Tuesday due to a threat that’s becoming routine: space debris that might fly too close
We’ve seen how 3D-printing can revolutionize certain manufacturing processes – whether on Earth or anywhere else – but there’s a
Knowing when to head out looking for food and when to stop and eat instead is an important judgment call
Even though jellyfish don’t have brains, scientists have figured out a way to read their minds – in a manner
Without an explosion in ocean life more than 2 billion years ago, many of Earth’s mountains might never have formed,
Scientists have unearthed the oldest fossils to date of the mysterious human lineage known as the Denisovans. With these 200,000-year-old
Scientists have engineered what they say are the first self-replicating ‘robots’ ever made from living cells. At first, these freaky-looking
Earth is our Solar System’s bluest planet, and yet no one really knows where all our water came from. The
The self-help industry is booming, fueled by research on positive psychology – the scientific study of what makes people flourish.
A major milestone in particle physics has just been made at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). For the first time,
About 5,300 years ago, an ancient civilization emerged in the east of China, building a brilliant city the likes of
We just got a little more insight into stellar death by black hole. In a series of simulations, a team
A quick and easy parent survey has allowed psychologists to track how children first develop their sense of humor –
Humans have amazing fingertips. They are sensitive and can be moved over objects to feel their softness, texture, size, and
Scientists have developed an entirely new soft-yet-strong, squishy material that’s able to regain its original shape after being run over
They were the largest animals to ever walk the Earth: sauropods, a dinosaur clade of such immense size and stature,
With its large crater lake of turquoise water, plumes of smoke and sulfurous bubbling of mud and gases, the Krafla
After a few years of avoiding physical touch, you’d be forgiven if you’re feeling a little out of practice. A
Between music, podcasts, gaming, and the unlimited supply of online content, most people spend hours a week wearing headphones. Perhaps
There’s a dead star behaving very oddly 1,300 light-years away. It’s a white dwarf named KPD 0005+5106, and X-ray data
She was flying home from a holiday in Samoa when she saw it through the airplane window: a “peculiar large
Barely a year after the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) broke one record for fusion, it’s smashed it again,
After years of painstaking work, we’re homing in on bringing the total of confirmed exoplanets – planets outside the Solar
To the untrained eye, it may have looked like a giant wood log. In reality, scientists had spotted something unusual
In spite of what most Australians would have you believe, the land Down Under isn’t a hot-bed of venomous arachnids.
A group of scientists biked around Costa Rica’s tropical forests, hanging chunks of raw chicken from the trees, in April
It doesn’t look like much. A little shorter than your thumb, perhaps, yellowed and scarred with age, and cracked clean
The UK has officially recognized octopuses and crabs as sentient beings – finally catching up to well-established science on these
The Pentagon is creating a new office to investigate unidentified flying objects (UFOs) amid concerns that after broad probes it
The space around the Milky Way isn’t vacant. It’s swarming with dwarf galaxies – small, faint, and low in mass,
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared to life and soared through the dark California skies early Wednesday, carrying a small
The poisonous toxins of milkweed plants seem to have caused an evolutionary cascade through multiple layers in the food web,
Peering deeper below the surface of Earth can tell us a lot about its history and geological make-up, and it’s
A newly discovered exoplanet is one of the most extreme discovered yet. Its name is TOI-2109b, an absolute beast of
Sometime between 7-6 million years ago, our primate ancestors stood up and began to walk on two legs. A defining
Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it
Most humans alive today are never going to go to Mars. It’s probably for the best, really. Without some serious
In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant
The rate of childhood death in prehistoric times was not nearly as dire as we’ve been led to believe, according
Albert Einstein’s handwritten notes for the theory of relativity fetched a record 11.6 million euros (US$13 million) at an auction
When it finally launches, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will give us our best look yet at the Universe
A dead star is spinning so rapidly, it officially has the fastest known spin rate of any star of its
Distances in space are hard. Unless you know precisely how intrinsically bright something is, working out how far away it
Meteor impact sites might seem like easy things to recognize, with giant craters in Earth’s surface showing where these far-flung
Beginning in the second trimester of pregnancy, an expecting parent may feel their unborn baby kicking, rolling over, and even
Terraforming Mars is one of the great dreams of humanity. Mars has a lot going for it. Its day is
A weird quantum effect that was predicted decades ago has finally been demonstrated – if you make a cloud of gas
In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered
