Nearly a million years ago, some devastating event nearly wiped out humanity’s ancestors. Genomic data from 3,154 modern humans suggests
Weeks after a cybersecurity incident was detected by researchers at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a number of telescopes
The abilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems are advancing at an astounding rate, nearing or bettering what humans can do
Climate change has sharply boosted the risk of fast-spreading wildfires, according to a Californian study published Wednesday that offers lessons
A newly observed isotope of oxygen is defying all our expectations for how it should behave. It’s oxygen-28, with the
Wild boars in southeastern Germany are known to contain high levels of radioactive cesium, which has been widely attributed to
The fossil fuels that humanity burns today will be a death sentence for many lives tomorrow. A recent review of
India only landed on the Moon last week, but its Chandrayaan-3 mission has already made its first scientific observations of
The Whirlpool Galaxy, aka M51, is one of the most well-known objects in the night sky. It’s close enough and
A rare type of particle has emerged from proton collisions in the Large Hadron Collider. Between 2016 and 2018, physicists
A forest blaze in Greece is “the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU” and the bloc is mobilising nearly
A piece of ancient space rock that ended up on Earth is giving scientists the clues they need to understand
Strange loops in the fabric of reality have finally been witnessed forming in a super cold gas, providing physicists with
In all our explorations of Mars to date, no evidence has been found that meets the rigorous standards to claim
Rumours that there are big cats in Britain stubbornly keep cropping up. The thought of a large predator lurking in
Days after becoming the first nation to land a craft near the Moon‘s largely unexplored south pole, India’s space agency
The Moon is known for its numerous craters that preserve the scars of turbulence from above. But just beneath the
Forecasters were closely watching Tropical Storm Idalia as it passed Cuba and headed toward exceptionally warm waters in the Gulf
Never let it be said that scientists don’t have an eye for the sublime. Encoding and deciphering a Chinese symbol
The biggest search for the Loch Ness Monster in five decades got underway in the Scottish Highlands Saturday, as researchers
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was zipping through space when a “hole” opened up in the sun’s atmosphere near its south
On Wednesday, a full, luminous moon will appear in the sky. While experts debate the exact definition of a supermoon,
For the first time, researchers have been able to extract DNA fragments from an ancient clay brick, demonstrating how these
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of unique early Neolithic burial practices in Galería del Sílex in Spain, following an analysis of
We’ve been warned that our planet will change in unimaginable ways if we don’t act soon, and new research shows
It may seem like the ultimate in bling, but a new technique for tattooing gold onto living tissue is a
An analysis of antibodies extracted from 800-year-old teeth has provided a new way to identify pathogens our ancestors contended with.
Glass might look and feel like a perfectly ordered solid, but up close its chaotic arrangement of particles more closely
Seismology has been ubiquitous on Earth for decades, and missions such as InSight have recently provided the same data for
In 1997, a lone wolf crossed an ice bridge that briefly connected Canada with the remote Isle Royale, which lies
In early 2023, the Guardian published an article suggesting that more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets are worthless. These
Nothing can go faster than light. It’s a rule of physics woven into the very fabric of Einstein’s special theory
Scientists at Stanford University have designed a new paint that could help reduce our growing reliance on air conditioners and
Most spiders pose very little danger to humans, including the notorious noble false widow (Steatoda nobilis). But the half-inch predator
Crafting organic molecules into a bizarre kind of magnet, physicists from Aalto University and the University of Jyväskylä in Finland
India made history as the first country to land near the south pole of the Moon with its Chandrayaan-3 lander
Mars is a wondrous world full of mysteries. We’re getting closer to solving some of them, but others remain baffling.
Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, prompting a furious China
Ever since Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989, the giant dark smudges that appear in the distant planet’s atmosphere
Sea ice loss in Antarctica during 2022’s emperor penguin breeding season resulted in the complete failure of four out of
Personally witnessing the contorted forms of Vesuvius’s human and animal victims drives home the horror of their final moments like
We have a problem. Ever since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, we have been launching debris into space.
When a magician tells you there’s nothing up their sleeve, you’re invited to look past the arm sweat and stale
Forests, it’s often said, are the lungs of Earth. Tall trees stretch skyward to find sunlight, sucking water up from
India’s space agency successfully landed their Chandrayaan-3 lander on the lunar surface, becoming the fourth country to touch down on
Since the sale of the platform formerly known as Twitter in October 2022, almost half of its ‘environmentalist’ users –
At the Davidson Seamount, off the coast of California, a world of wonder lurks on the seafloor. There, in the
A giraffe born without spots sounds like the plot of a children’s book – and actually is one – but
