Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data.
A fascinating parasitic plant found lurking in clusters around the bases of trees has optimized its living strategy so well
Picture the scene: it’s a dreary weeknight evening, you’re tired from work, and you want to watch something that will
To capture the first image of a black hole, researchers had to build a telescope as big as Earth by
In 1960, while preparing for the first meeting on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), legendary astronomer and SETI pioneer
The vast, mostly invisible network of filaments that spans and connects the Universe has finally been spotted gleaming in the
A distant supernova whose light has been magnified and triplicated by gravity may be a key to discovering the expansion
It’s been a special few weeks for sky-watchers, with a rare double supermoon and a spectacular Perseid meteor shower visible
Orcas have been killing great white sharks off South African shores. But lately, there’s been a mysterious disappearance of great
A strange pair of galaxies several billion light-years away could be evidence of a hypothetical ‘crease’ in the Universe’s fabric
Everywhere they look mathematicians seem to find patterns in nature. But a strange link between how zebra stripes form and
If you’re a whale, there’s often not too much to see out in deeper water. Perhaps that’s why so many
Earlier this year, the James Webb Space Telescope dashed hopes for life on one of the most Earth-like exoplanets discovered
For roughly 250 million years, some 20,000-odd species of trilobite scuttled across Earth’s ocean floor. Despite the huge abundance these
Caves were some of humanity’s first shelters. Who knows what our distant ancestors were thinking as they sought refuge there,
A dog running from a pack of feral dogs dove into an even more dangerous situation when it took a
Oxford today is known as a place of learning and elite scholarship. Several hundred years ago, the university town had
As far as gravity is concerned, both matter and its charge-flipped ‘mirror’ twin, antimatter, deserve a big, warm hug. A
On September 24, a strong storm of solar plasma struck Earth’s magnetic field and set the night sky on ‘fire’.
A stray canine in Brazil has turned out to be a whole new breed of adorable. According to a genetic
Deep beneath the ocean’s waves dwell creatures of pure horror. Sharp of tooth, screaming jowls, and flesh that shimmers with
One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s principal science goals is to observe the epoch where we think that the
India made history last month as the first country to land near the moon‘s south pole. But several days after
The ghost, at long last, is actually in the machine. Earlier this year, for the first time, scientists detected neutrinos
Antarctica is looking less and less recognizable with each passing year. On land, scientists have found flowering plants, moss, and
In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all
A new species of tarantula found scurrying around the forests of Thailand shimmers with dazzling blue highlights. Its discoverers have
Mysterious, bare patches of ground that polka-dot the deserts of Namibia and Australia are far more widespread than we knew.
For more than 300 million years, mammals of all shapes and sizes have flourished here on Earth. Today, this highly
In an exciting milestone for lunar scientists around the globe, India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down 375 miles (600 km) from
The Vikings were notorious raiders, but they were traders too, establishing vast trade routes that flourished from the 8th to
Our planet has changed a lot over billions of years, from the location of the continents to the makeup of
Well, they’ve done it. After seven years and 6.21 billion-kilometers, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx has officially delivered a capsule of precious Asteroid
Carbon dioxide detected on Jupiter‘s moon Europa comes from the vast ocean beneath its icy shell, research using James Webb
A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the
Even millions of years ago, Australia was a paradise for spiders. In the arid heart of the continent, scientists have
The Tasmanian tiger has a long, checkered history that now includes being the first extinct animal family from which scientists
Wi-Fi signals can do much more than deliver streaming movies and music around the home, it turns out: they can
After a long, successful, and fascinating journey, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is finally about to return its precious cargo to Earth.
A 3D model of a black hole’s erratic feeding pattern reveals a potential explanation for the bizarre behavior of quasars
In 1687, Isaac Newton formulated his laws of motion and universal gravity, bringing the movement of distant stars, moons, and
Over many thousands of years, a species of animal that shared a close relationship with wolves slowly morphed into something
In 1960, legendary physicist Freeman Dyson published his seminal paper “Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation,” wherein he
For such a lush, verdant paradise, the Amazon rainforest’s soil can be surprisingly barren. Yet mysteriously fertile “dark earth” called
In what could be excused as a dictionary definition of futility, scientists have tried to teach a species of boxed
If you saw grains of sand rolling uphill you might be forgiven for thinking you were watching a Christopher Nolan
A set of mysterious ‘hoofprints’ on the seafloor off the coast of New Zealand are not actually the work of
There’s a line of thinking that says you can mentally manifest your way to financial success through believing it will
