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On the frigid landscape of Antarctica’s Ingrid Christensen Coast sits Davis Station, where 24 people are hunkered down for a long and dark winter. Although this happens every year, with…
A sunken ship found in the Nile river may have lain undisturbed for over 2,500 years, but it is finally ponying up its secrets. Scientists think that this ship has…
We’re all here only because reality is an imperfect reflection of itself. Thanks to a flaw in the symmetry of nature, plenty of material was available to clump into the…
Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua’s past may have been more violent than we know. New simulations reveal the peculiar chunk of space rock could have been torn apart by a star –…
Massive stars don’t die quietly. Their deaths are spectacular explosions that can outshine entire galaxies – and now, astronomers have identified the most powerful of these exploding stars we’ve ever…
Neanderthals were making string and cords from fibres long before early humans cottoned on to the technique, according to a new archaeological discovery. Researchers have found a 6.2 millimetre (0.24…
Hundreds of firefighters on Monday battled a forest blaze in Ukraine’s Chernobyl exclusion zone while officials insisted there was no risk to the ruined reactor and nearby storage facilities for…
There’s a small and exclusive list of places where crop cultivation first got started in the ancient world – and it looks as though that list might have another entry,…
The sound of people chewing, slurping, tapping, or humming can drive some people into a rage, and scientists have actually discovered the neurological wiring responsible for this strange condition. Called…
A lifetime ago, a Jewish girl confided in her diary as she spent two years in isolation from the outside world in a doomed attempt to escape mortal danger. Anne…
NASA and ESA’s incredible view of the ‘Pillars of Creation’, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope, has become one of the most iconic views of our cosmos since it was…
They found it buried in the muddy shores of the Potomac River more than three decades ago: a strange “sediment organism” that could do things nobody had ever seen before…
Space can be a horror show of cosmic violence, and now astronomers have captured the first photographic evidence of the carnage that can be unleashed when two heavyweight galaxies collide.…
Who hasn’t dreamt of escaping to the stars? Especially now, with most of us confined to limited spaces and steeped in tragic news. NASA and the ISS National Lab are…
There’s an iconic scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker looks out over the desert landscape of Tatooine at the amazing spectacle of a double sunset. Now,…
Since the Hubble telescope was first launched in 1990, it has made more than 1.4 million observations of various stars, planets and galaxies littering our Universe. As the school-bus-sized telescope…
Eight years after he first shared it online, Kyoto University mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki’s controversial, 600-page proof for a profound mathematical conjecture has been approved for publication in an academic journal.…
Astronomers have delivered the closest look yet at the extremely hot outer corona layer of the Sun, revealing never-before-seen structures hidden within regions once only seen as empty or dark.…
Human evolution is complicated, to say the least. It’s complicated by love, which makes us want to keep people alive. It’s complicated by science and technology, which give us the…
Saturn may be the most showy, but it’s not the only planet in the Solar System circled by rings. And last year we found out more about the 13 rings…
The pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus is creating all kinds of chaos for human society. But for the dear old Earth, and the humans and creatures that breathe its…
Almost 13,000 years ago, a group of prehistoric nomads in what we now call Syria embarked upon a historic change. They abandoned their hunter-gatherer ways, and became the earliest known…
A three-man crew docked successfully at the International Space Station Thursday, leaving behind a planet overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic. Russian space agency Roscosmos said the Soyuz MS-16 capsule docked…
Global warming will cause “catastrophic” biodiversity loss across the world if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t curbed, with some ecosystems liable to collapse as soon as 2030, according to new research…
Can you tell just by looking where a woman’s at in her reproductive cycle? For other primate species, such as the red-bottomed baboon, it’s pretty easy to see. For humans,…
Physics experts are working at Europe’s CERN lab to create a basic ventilator for mild coronavirus sufferers and recovering patients, the facility said on Wednesday. The Swiss-based lab says a…
Researchers working for industrial development company Carbios have created a mutant bacterial enzyme that can break down plastic bottles for recycling in only a couple of hours, according to The…
NASA just gave out a new round of grants for its favourite up and coming innovative space projects – one of which is a plan to fit a 1 kilometre…
The more we discover about giant viruses, the more questions we seem to have. Unlike most viruses, these giant strains are so large they can even be mistaken for bacteria,…