The Martian atmosphere, in its current state, is not Earthling-friendly at all. It’s extremely thin, over 100 times less dense
A new method for entwining the fates of fragments of light has overcome some serious obstacles on the road to
Hydrogen fuel promises to be a clean and abundant source of energy in the future – as long as scientists
A crime scene can present itself in any form and size. In recent weeks, an Aotearoa New Zealand family who’d
Well, it had to happen eventually, and now it has. Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have this
They found his body in a hammock, adorned by feathers, the last remaining member of his tribe. For 26 years,
The Perseverance rover is enjoying a bit of a winning streak lately! For the past year and a half, the
A mysterious ancient writing system called Linear Elamite, used between about 2300 BCE and 1800 BCE in what is now
A new study has discovered a ‘frat-boy culture’ in dolphin society to rival our own. Beyond humans, researchers say dolphins
Seeing the famed pyramids of Giza as they stand today – immovable, impenetrable fortresses surrounded by windswept sands and a
The Universe, truly, is full of wonders, and the James Webb Space Telescope has just given us our best views
It’s a common misconception that the Moon has a “dark” side. Like a rotisserie chicken, the Moon’s rotation ensures a
For over a century, astronomers have known that the Universe has been expanding since the Big Bang. For the first
Paleontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilized skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe. The
Second only to Antarctica’s frozen cap in size, Greenland’s ice sheet is several million cubic kilometers of fresh water held
On Monday morning, NASA scrubbed its first attempt to launch its historic Artemis 1 mission due to an engine bleed
The weird behavior of a galaxy around a billion light-years away suggests that it might contain one of the most
Crops including cucumbers, potatoes and lettuce can have yields up to four times as high when they’re grown in urban
Archaeologists in Romania have discovered an extraordinary cache of ancient gold rings that a 6,500-year-old woman wore in her hair.
No animals are immune to the effects of climate change, but some are significantly more sensitive than others. They may
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is poised to take a key step toward returning humans to the Moon after a half-century
Although we’re more connected than ever, hatred and bigotry towards social groups seen as ‘Other’ remain rife in our world.
There are two theories about where teeth originated: They either evolved from external scales (the outside-in hypothesis) or from somewhere
As we approach the end of the school holidays, parents across the country are saying the same thing: “If I
Since the first James Webb Space Telescope images were released in July, our feeds have been flooded with mind-bogglingly gorgeous
Scientists have developed an ‘atomic television’ that uses lasers and atom clouds to carry a video signal that meets the
The relentless accuracy with which some mosquito species hunt down humans may result from their bizarrely wired olfactory system, which
If we had been around and able to see into the heart of galaxy cluster Abell 980 around 260 million
Getting atoms to do what you want isn’t easy – but it’s at the heart of a lot of groundbreaking
Changing the number of chromosomes an animal has can take millions of generations to happen in nature through the course
“To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an
Three skeletons uncovered in a rock shelter adorned with red pigment rock art reveal burial rituals of early humans who
The animal kingdom is practically dripping in mucus. Amphibians, snails, and slugs are among the more famous masters of mucus,
A person’s nose could play an important role in their sex life, according to a new international study. In China,
When asked to write the numbers from one to ten in a sequence, how do you order them? Horizontally? Vertically?
An exoplanet just 100 light-years from Earth appears to be the best candidate yet for a sloshy, water-covered ocean world.
The world is heating up, and it’s threatening habitability in many regions around the equator. At this stage, even if
Dogs get dementia too. But it’s often difficult to spot. Research published this week shows how common it is, especially
An early – and exciting – science result from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was announced today: the first
Massive swathes of wilderness and the lives of billions of animals were extinguished into ash and smoke during Australia’s Black
The discovery of incredible fossils of a giant marine lizard reveals how this ancient extinct beast would have ruled the
Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from
The switch to walking on two legs, instead of four, is a major moment in the evolution of our species,
Astronomers may have detected a previously undiscovered ‘mini moon’ in the Solar System: a rocky object orbiting a small asteroid
This new image, taken of the skies above Chile’s Atacama Desert near the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla Observatory,
Time to upgrade your wallpapers, people. Two astrophotographers have just dropped what they call “the most ridiculously detailed picture” of
Lungs. We can’t live without them, nor can most animals that wear their skeletons on the inside. However, some extraordinary
A drought in Texas dried up a river flowing through Dinosaur Valley State Park, exposing tracks from giant reptiles that
