Another Reason Why We Might Have Never Seen Alien Probes: They’re Tiny Micro-Machines
What if alien spacecraft are already in our midst – and we don’t know about them because they’re tiny nano-structures? That’s the new idea put forward by one scientist seeking…
Scientists Create a Material That Captures CO2 And Turns It Into Organic Matter
Scientists have come up with an innovative way to try and counter the massive amounts of carbon dioxide we’re still pumping into the air, even as a climate crisis unfolds…
MH370 news: How plane’s co-pilot was ‘known to break aviation rules’ | Weird | News
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The missing Boeing 777 has not been located…
The First Peer-Reviewed Paper on Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Has Just Been Published
We’ve been hearing a lot about interstellar comet 2I/Borisov after its amazing discovery on 30 August 2019. Now the first analysis has hit peer-reviewed publication, landing a description of the…
Upside-Down ‘Rivers’ Are Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves From Beneath
Antarctic ice shelves are being destabilised by hidden, upside-down ‘rivers’ of warm water that course below the shelves and melt them from underneath, new research shows. Scientists have known about…
Astronomers Observe in Incredible Detail a Black Hole Flickering in Our Own Galaxy
A black hole flickering in the Milky Way galaxy has been filmed in unprecedented detail, with a new high frame-rate technique that is helping us understand the wild dynamics of…
Orangutans Can Play The Kazoo, And It’s Changing Our Knowledge of How Speech Evolved
A kazoo might seem a world away from the spoken word. But our ability to produce its buzzing, Donald Duck-like sound at will was key in us ever developing the…
We Just Found Out That The Milky Way Has Been Repeatedly Stealing Smaller Galaxies
Orbiting is par for the course in our universe. The Earth orbits the Sun, the Moon orbits the Earth, and more than 50 galaxies orbit the Milky Way, the biggest…
There’s a Genius, Sustainable Economic System We Could All Be Using. Here’s How
In her Hugo-finalist novel Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers envisions a future where humanity travels the galaxy in generational ships, their entire civilisation dependent on a well-oiled system…
Babies Who Are Cuddled More Seem to Have Their Genetics Altered For Years Afterwards
The amount of close and comforting contact that young infants get doesn’t just keep them warm, snug, and loved. A 2017 study says it can actually affect babies at the…