In an old Italian crypt from the 17th century, two mummified brains have been found containing traces of cocaine. This
All the normal matter in the Universe is made up of teeny tiny building blocks that are far too small
Warp drives have a long history of not existing, despite their ubiquitous presence in science fiction. Writer John Campbell first
We have a whole lot of weird moons in the Solar System. We have hot moons and cold moons. There’s
In an incredibly inhospitable lake, scientists have discovered a new tiny species that forms huge colonies. These strange creatures have
If you’ve been on Instagram or TikTok recently, you’ve likely come across those viral videos of dogs hitting soundboard buttons
Labradoodles, puggles, dorgis, cavoodles, cavapoos: whatever you call them, there’s no escaping the explosion of designer crossbreeds parading along our
An invisible, weak energy field wrapped around our planet Earth has finally been detected and measured. It’s called the ambipolar
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. During a visit to the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa in Israel, a
In January 1912, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposed an idea the scientific world thought was wack. After scrutinizing similar-looking fossils
However badly your day is going, spare a thought for the ancient sea cow that’s the subject of newly published
SpaceX’s stalwart Falcon 9 rocket has been grounded while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates why its first-stage booster tipped over
Scientists have created a ‘living plastic’ that self-destructs when the material begins to erode. In the composting process, the novel
Our ability to image the subatomic realm is limited, not just by resolution, but also by speed. The constituent particles
We think of planets as the inherently confined children of host stars. Space, however, is a strange and mercurial thing;
Earth and Mars will, hopefully, never meet, but that doesn’t mean they can’t engage in a little exchange program. Thanks
Antidepressants have helped millions of people worldwide since the 1950s. But have you ever wondered what happens to these drugs
The Polaris Dawn mission has been attracting lots of attention because it will feature the first ever spacewalk by commercial
In limestone caverns beneath a Mexican forest, pitch-black ponds are home to strange, eyeless fish with taste buds all over
In test images of distant galaxies, an array of Event Horizon Telescopes has achieved the highest resolution observations ever taken
The bubbles blown by humpback whales to confuse and snare their tiny prey should be classified as tools. That’s the
While the idea of a quantum internet has a huge amount of potential, getting it hooked up to the regular
SpaceX is poised to launch an all-civilian crew on a daring orbital expedition Tuesday, marking a new chapter in space
Right now, human population growth is doing something long thought impossible – it’s wavering. It’s now possible global population could
At around 3,300 meters (2 miles) below the surface of the ocean off the coast of Alaska, where the warm
A ruined building in Kafr El Sheikh was where ancient Egyptians once stood, gazing at the stars above. More than
Two US astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner will have to stay six more months
It’s winter in Australia, but as you’ve probably noticed, the weather is unusually warm. The top temperatures over large parts
A landslide and its resulting megatsunami in a Greenland fjord in September 2023 were significant enough to send waves around
For nearly 60 million years, our home planet was likely frozen into a big snowball. Now, scientists have discovered evidence
A persistent, nagging problem with the expansion speed of the Universe may not require a rewrite of everything we know
Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our planet. Their remarkable adaptability
Deep within our planet’s continents rise plateaus that defy easy explanation. No volcano, no continental collisions, no rising plumes of
A surprising number of us can sing with perfect pitch, according to a new study that analyzed the karaoke skills
Andromeda is the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way – and it’s getting closer. In fact, astronomers believe that
Connecting our dream worlds to our conscious realities might be entirely possible, according to emerging research. A new study by
Underwater avalanches are powerful natural events that happen all the time under the surface of the ocean. They are impossible
A 400-year-old mystery around the identity of four men found buried in England’s first permanent settlement in the Americas may
Countries where English is the official language have a lot in common due to their shared British colonial history –
Tardigrades, the microscopic little eight-legged beasties that are thought to be among the toughest organisms on the planet, have been
To step foot inside the Dolmen of Menga is to enter, awed, almost into another world. The ancient building was
On Sept. 26th, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroids Redirect Test (DART) collided with Dimorphos, the small moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid
Record breaking fossil fuel production, all time high greenhouse gas emissions and extreme temperatures. Like the proverbial frog in the
In 1971, English mathematical physicist and Nobel-prize winner Roger Penrose proposed how energy could be extracted from a rotating black
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sudden and intense blasts of radio wave energy from deep space that remain one of
When the Moon fully slips into Earth’s shadow, a king shall die. So warns an ominous prediction from Old Babylonia,
The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the
A little blob of squishy transparent gel can not only play the video game Pong, it can get better at
