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Back in 1966, Japanese physicist Yosuke Nagaoka came up with the idea of an unusual new mechanism that could cause ferromagnetism – the phenomeon that powers magnets as we know…
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected more than 92,300 people since it emerged in China last December. The rapidly spreading virus attacks the respiratory system with flu-like symptoms and has…
The world is in the grips of a coronavirus epidemic unlike anything seen since the outbreak of SARS in 2002. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected 92,314 people since last…
Confirmed cases of the deadly virus are etching towards 100,000, as more than 3,100 people have died. Today, Boris Johnson unveiled his 28-page “Action Plan” which included putting the Army…
The Milky Way isn’t like other barred spiral galaxies. Instead of a nice, tidy flat disc, it has a kink in its spine, a twist in its swagger. As we…
As we find more and more exoplanets in the Milky Way – numbering in the thousands now – astronomers are discovering some strange objects that don’t exist in the Solar…
When it comes to the challenges posed by interstellar travel, there are no easy answers. The distances are immense, the amount of energy needed to make the journey is tremendous,…
Climate change and sea level rise are currently on track to wipe out half the world’s sandy beaches by 2100, researchers warned Monday. Even if humanity sharply reduces the fossil…
Up until now, only human beings and other great apes have demonstrated an ability to understand probabilities – being able to weigh up the odds based on the available data,…
A new discovery could be a clue for us to see if life could emerge elsewhere in the Solar System. Using a new analysis technique, scientists think they have found…
Monty the python’s eyes ended up being bigger than her stomach when the snake swallowed an entire beach towel whole. A video that went viral this week shows doctors at…
By combing through data collected by NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, University of British Columbia astronomy PhD candidate Michelle Kunimoto discovered evidence of an impressive 17 new exoplanets – including…
When it was very young, the planet Earth looked rather different from the one we know and love today. For one, it had supercontinents – when the landmasses we currently…
The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has caused widespread alarm, travel bans, and the quarantine of multiple cities across the world. But there’s also been an unexpected effect on the environment, in…
For the swamp wallaby, mothering is a full-time business. While every other mammal on Earth gets a break between pregnancies, this particular species of Australian marsupial (Wallabia bicolor) is the…
In another quatrain, Nostradamus mentioned a “great plague” and the Italian city of Lucca. Century III, Quatrain 19 reads: “In Lucca it will come to rain blood and milk, “Shortly…
The scripture reads: “Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. “They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. “Then…
It’s hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little wonder then why science…
“And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”…
A boring, unremarkable star 26 light-years away has turned out to be not so boring after all. Astronomers have found that it has a planet – not just any planet,…
The Mars pictures were taken by NASA’s Curiosity Rover, which landed in the Gale Crater in 2012 as part of the space agency’s Mars Science Laboratory project. The curious spread…
The Gray Whale is the 10th largest creature alive today, and the 9 creatures larger than it are all whales, too. Gray Whales are known for their epic migration routes,…
The first rover ever to visit the far side of the Moon has discovered a layer of lunar dust up to 12 meters (39 feet) deep. The rover and its…
Recent reports from scientists pursuing a new kind of nuclear fusion technology are encouraging, but we are still some distance away from the “holy grail of clean energy”. The technology…