The world's most powerful space telescope on Saturday blasted off into orbit , headed to an outpost 1.5 million kilometres (930,000 miles) from Earth, afte…
Read moreSince early this year, skywatchers on Earth have been tracking Comet Leonard, a kilometer-wide dirty snowball made of ice, rock, and dust. Now, as it heads t…
Read moreA vast system of canyons that dramatically scars the face of Mars could be harboring reserves of hidden water. An unusually high quantity of hydrogen has bee…
Read moreThe anti-seizure qualities of the cannabis plant can likely not be boiled down to a single compound, like cannabidiol (CBD), according to emerging research. …
Read moreThe joke about "needing longer arms" when you grow older and try to read small print is common enough. The cause – a natural decline in our eyes'…
Read moreIn an incredible historic first, a human-made spacecraft has swooped in and made contact with the Sun. On 28 April 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe actuall…
Read moreMicro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuz…
Read moreA major milestone has been breached in the quest for fusion energy. For the first time, a fusion reaction has achieved a record 1.3 megajoule energy output –…
Read moreThe Sun hasn't set in Antarctica since October. Earth's southernmost continent is currently experiencing a long summer's day, one that stretches …
Read moreThe UK has officially recognized octopuses and crabs as sentient beings – finally catching up to well-established science on these intelligent animals. "…
Read moreLast seen around 80 years ago, the Xerces blue butterfly has been presumed extinct ever since. Its extinction has been considered the first in an American inse…
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