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Empires can fall for all kinds of reasons – invasion, over-expansion, corruption, economic troubles, climate change – but new research suggests the Akkadian Empire may have been brought low by…
No humans live on Mullion Island off the coast of Cornwall in Britain. No humans are even allowed to set foot on the remote island without a permit. Mullion Island…
The days of Sesame Street’s resident counting vampire are numbered. It turns out toddlers a little older than a year already have a good sense of simple accounting – they…
It’s a lovely thought – a tunnel connecting two regions of space-time, a sort of cosmic shortcut. Such wormholes are mostly thought to belong in the realm of science fiction,…
Rigorous testing is at the heart of any successful space mission. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be a million miles away when it deploys its mission-critical sunshield, and…
Hydrogen peroxide, water’s short-tempered sibling, has helped humans to fight infection since we discovered its antiseptic properties nearly two centuries ago. Unfortunately, it’s pretty unstable, making it tricky to transport…
It’s hot in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar. Like, really hot. On summer nights, temperatures rarely dip below 32 degrees Celsius (that’s 90 degrees Fahrenheit), and during the day…
The singer previously released videos of “unidentified” objects as part of his To The Stars Academy (TTSA), which where acknowledged by the US Navy. TTSA have now signed a deal…
Seared into the brain of paleontologist Tyler Lyson is the date he cracked open the skull: 10 September, 2016. Before that discovery, Lyson and his colleagues had struck out at…
Pumpkins are, first and foremost, a food. Right? Well, in the UK and the US, the vast majority of pumpkins actually end up in landfill – right after October 31.…
To be an ant is to never get stuck in traffic. It’s one of the many perks (along with super-human strength, an armour-like skeleton and two stomachs, of course). As…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The evidence suggests that the plane carried on…
Few composite materials forged by nature are as tough as mother-of-pearl, or nacre. Now, scientists have finally figured out just how the minuscule layers of this pearlescent substance make it…
Air pollution worsened in the United States in 2017 and 2018, new data shows, a reversal after years of sustained improvement with significant implications for public health. In 2018 alone,…
Look, Mars is great. It’s full of great rocks, and those blue sunsets are just top-notch. But there’s no denying it: Mars definitely gets way more attention than other planets.…
Have you ever sat down to complete your morning crossword or Sudoku and wondered about what’s happening in your brain? Somewhere in the activity of the billions of neurons in…
Nobody really knows what a Tully monster is. It’s maybe a squid thing. Or like a lamprey. Only it has these weird eye stalks, and a… is that a tentacle…
A powerhouse team led by researchers from Google, NASA, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is officially claiming to have achieved the technological milestone of quantum supremacy. In a new…
It has only just opened its eyes, but already a new X-ray observatory is revealing incredible details about the Universe. The ‘first light’ images from the eROSITA X-ray telescope have…
The Universe bathes in a sea of light, from the blue-white flickering of young stars to the deep red glow of hydrogen clouds. Beyond the colors seen by human eyes,…
To the pig-tailed macaque, there’s nothing better than sweet fruit plucked from a sprawling palm oil plantation. Except maybe fresh rat. That’s good eating too, apparently. Researchers have found that…
A team of astronomers has accidentally discovered an invisible monster galaxy from the beginning of the Universe. The researchers were taking observations with the Atacama Large Millimetre Array, a group…
Where oh where has India’s moon lander gone? Over a month after Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander had an unlucky crash landing, somewhere near the unexplored lunar south pole, NASA still can’t…
We’ve made plenty of progress with sustainable energy in recent years, but there’s still a lot of work left to do. Now, there’s encouraging news on the development of an…
BD +20 307 should not have been so bright. For such an old binary star system, it should have appeared cool in our scopes. Instead, it looked hot. The discovery…
We all know that Earth is old, but it’s hard to put into perspective just how old it is. After all, what does 4.5 billion years really mean? How do…
Climate change is reshaping the evolution and intensity of El Niño events in a way that favors the occurrence of more “super” El Niños, according to a study published Monday.…
In August, Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 discovered something strange on the far side of the Moon: a mysterious substance that the Chinese space agency referred to as “gel-like” and “colored”.…