Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and scientists don't know why. This has critical impacts not just...
The discovery of multiple exoplanets that appear to be shrinking appears to resolve a 'missing link' in planetary evolution. Four mini-Neptunes in close proximity to their stars have been found...
Giant squids are notoriously hard to find and film, thanks in no small part to the depths they live at, and the very first one wasn't caught on camera until 2004. Although the crushing pressures and...
NASA's James Webb Telescope has discovered the oldest galaxy in the universe that existed 13.5 billion years ago. The collection of stars – called GLASS-z13 – dates to just 300 million years...
Woodpeckers spend most of their day digging in tree trunks, using their beak to poke holes from insects to quench their hunger. Scientists have always wondered how woodpeckers can hit the bark and...
It was thought that humans were unique amongst mammals when it came to farming – but depending on how strict we are with definitions, it turns out we might not be alone when comes to tending the...
The dawn of a new era in astronomy is here as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA...
Life on the blood-thinning agent warfarin involves the careful calculation of each dose. Too little, and it could be ineffective. Too much, and there is the risk of uncontrollable bleeding....
Octopuses are brainy creatures with sophisticated smarts, and now scientists have uncovered a clue that may partly explain the cephalopods' remarkable intelligence. The neural and cognitive...
Astronauts lose decades' worth of bone mass in space that many do not recover even after a year back on Earth, researchers said Thursday, warning that it could be a "big concern" for future missions...
If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly stormy fallouts you might have even hoped it was a sign that you were...
Typhoid fever might be rare in developed countries, but this ancient threat, thought to have been around for millennia, is still very much a danger in our modern world. According to new research,...
With enough training, most humans can learn how to echolocate, using their tongue to make clicking sounds and interpreting the echoes that come back, reflected from the surrounding environment. In...
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes,...
A supermassive black hole growing so fast it shines 7,000 times brighter than the entire Milky Way has just been found, hiding in plain sight. This supermassive black hole consumes the equivalent of...
Physicists has discovered a new particle – or previously undetectable quantum excitation – known as the axial Higgs mode, a magnetic relative of the mass-defining Higgs Boson particle, the team...
Humans are unrivalled in the area of cognition. After all, no other species has sent probes to other planets, produced lifesaving vaccines or created poetry. How information is processed in the...
Astronomers have found only the second example of a highly active, repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) with a compact source of weaker but persistent radio emission between bursts. The discovery raises...
The Curiosity rover has found an outstanding rock formation piercing the alien landscape of Mars. Amongst the shallow sands and boulders of the Gale Crater rise several twisting towers of rock –...
The mere thought of barbecue’s smokey scents and intoxicating flavors is enough to get most mouths watering. Summer is here, and that means it is barbecue season for many people in the U.S. I am a...
