Atoms may not have bones, but we still want to know how they are put together. These tiny particles are
Since its founding in 2016, Elon Musk‘s neurotechnology company Neuralink has had the ambitious mission to build a next-generation brain
The potent cocktail of toxins in the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders seems to vary depending on
In addition to everything else that winemakers have to consider in the production of a perfect bottle is the smell
Today, 80 percent of Australia is arid, but it was not always that way. In the early Pliocene, 5.4 to
Physicists have long puzzled over why there is more matter in the Universe than its flipped twin, antimatter. Without this
For most of us, this would be a nightmare. Imagine being curled up inside a 90 centimeter (36 inch) fabric
The DNA of a strain of bacteria responsible for the infamous Black Death plague has been found in the teeth
It doesn’t take a huge leap of imagination to see why M64 is better known as the Evil Eye galaxy.
Archaeologists have mapped a hidden landscape where Australia’s first people made inroads more than 60,000 years ago. This now-inland region
Parrots can get a lot out of video calls with their feathered friends just like we can from Zoom meetings
A harness-wearing Beluga whale that turned up in Norway in 2019, sparking speculation it was a spy trained by the
Glaciers in the Arctic are not nearly as devoid of life as they might appear at first sight. In fact,
A refined hunt for the extremely rare transformation of the Higgs boson has delivered results, providing the first evidence of
Scientists observed unusual behavior in an octopus that they said looked similar to it waking up from a nightmare. The
A new study challenges the idea that marsupials are more ‘primitive’ than mammals by showing their development has changed more
There’s a harsh, brutal reality to the poultry industry, which in 2021 alone supplied about 286 eggs per person in
Astronomers studying black holes have serendipitously found another rarity: A dead star rocketing away from its birth supernova, leaving a
Can a computer learn from the past and anticipate what will happen next, like a human? You might not be
Tigers may not change their stripes, but Jupiter sure does. The giant planet’s surprisingly neat, alternating bands of dark and
Engineers have demonstrated something marvelous. Almost any material can be used to create a device that continuously harvests energy from
Ask anyone living in a coastal area of the UK and they’ll confirm that seagulls can be a nuisance. These
A reconstruction of oral microflora genomes spanning a whopping 100,000-year period of human history may have revealed a surprising shift
Uranus takes 84 years to orbit the Sun, and so that last time that planet’s north polar region was pointed
The pressure to publish or perish has led some desperate researchers to pay for fake papers to pad their resumés.
Fungi pose a significant threat to crops worldwide, scientists warn in a new commentary, with increasingly “devastating” effects on our
Astronomers have found a planet a mere 87 light years away that is almost exactly the same size as Earth,
Cats have a reputation for aloofness (and flooffiness), but if you and your feline friend aren’t bonding, maybe you’re just
Diplomats from 175 countries gathering in Paris for plastics treaty talks on Monday may want to pack an umbrella, but
New research reveals that mushrooms and other fungi can keep themselves cooler than their surroundings. The discovery could tell us
With technology increasingly embedded in our everyday lives, it is becoming more important to understand space weather and its impacts
At the heart of a glob of stars drifting through the Milky Way lurks a beast. Located some 6,000 light-years
Orcas living off Europe’s Iberian coast recently struck and sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar. Scientists suspect that
We don’t know what the first stars in the Universe were like. Peering into the distant reaches of the early
What started as a single cell in 2018, invisible to the human eye, has now evolved into a multicellular beast
A sunspot four times the size of Earth is lined up with the Sun right now and it’s so big
‘Flesh-eating’ bacteria have been found thriving on seaweed blooms and plastic pollution in the open Caribbean Ocean, and researchers worry
Nurturing a forest ecosystem back to life after it’s been logged is not always easy. It can take a lot
Since what has come to be known as the Great Dimming that took place in the latter half of 2019
A decades-old global environmental pact has averted huge amounts of sea ice loss in the Arctic, new research shows. Banning
Current policies to limit global warming will expose more than a fifth of humanity to extreme and potentially life-threatening heat
Scientists using ultraviolet photography say they have found an old version of a chapter of the Bible that was hidden
There’s a fair amount of water in the Solar System. Several moons and planets are loaded with it, while comets
The next time you whisper sweet-nothings into someone’s ear, you might want to target their left side. Neuroscientists at the
The largest and most powerful solar telescope on Earth has just given us breathtaking new views of the surface of
France is preparing for temperatures of 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels in the country by century’s
The Tyrannosaurus rex is dinosaur royalty, an iconic and instantly identifiable species – and according to a new study, as
The feathers, fur, and scales that adorn different members of the animal kingdom may look quite different, but they’re all
