Gravitational wave detectors have already spotted mysterious black holes. But something even stranger might be next: wormholes. A black hole spiraling into...
Temporary loss of smell, or anosmia, is the main neurological symptom and one of the earliest and most commonly reported indicators of...
Most of the laws of physics don’t care which direction time is travelling. Forwards, backwards… either way, the laws work exactly the...
Electric cars absolutely do produce less CO2 than gas guzzlers, a new study has confirmed – countering claims that carbon emissions from...
The ice sheet that sits atop Earth’s deepest land canyon stands on shaky ground. A detailed mapping of Denman Glacier in East...
A search for the ‘missing link’ in the chain of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has uncovered two close cousins of the new...
Once again, a search for signs of dark matter outside its gravitational effect has turned up zilch – but this time it’s...
In another lifetime, if they had been allowed to follow their natural development, the stem cells taken from embryonic frogs would have...
Dozens of injured koalas arrive at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park’s makeshift animal hospital each day in cat carriers, washing baskets or...
To detect the quantum friction of empty space, scientists are going for a spin.A twirling nanoparticle, suspended in a laser beam inside...
Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are incredibly useful – and usually incredibly huge – instruments for studying some of the...
Playing with a tiny human is one of those small pleasures in life where you really feel like you’re connecting with a...
The European Parliament declared a climate emergency on Thursday, in a largely symbolic move that nonetheless increases pressure on member states to...
More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui’s attempt to use CRISPR technology to modify human...
After keeping a dead star under close observation for over two decades, astronomers have finally caught it acting out. A pulsar called...
A unique material that appears to decouple an object’s temperature from the amount of thermal radiation it produces could provide a new...
Australia may set a record for its hottest day this week, as temperatures soar past 104 degrees (40 Celsius) in most of...
The surface of the Sun is never still. Upon this burning ball of gas, a continual flow of super-hot plasma creates ropes...
Oregon State University research has provided the first complete, cellular-level look at what’s going on in joints afflicted by osteoarthritis, a debilitating...
Within seconds, you’ve ordered a tub of the stuff and have eaten several handfuls.Impulsivity, or responding without thinking about the consequences of...
The desperate search for ways to help the world’s coral reefs rebound from the devastating effects of climate change has given rise...
How typical is our Solar System? The question bedevils planetary scientists, but making detections of analogous features in other planetary systems is...
Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these...
There are no gender differences in the brain when it comes to maths processing ability, a new study has confirmed. This could...
Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have even infected science – at least the quantum...
It took just 2 1/2 hours for the Titanic to sink after it collided with an iceberg in 1912.Before the disaster, the...
Immersed in a ‘drug soup‘ of pharmaceutical pollutants, aquatic wildlife acts in ways that puts them at risk of becoming an easily...
CHICAGO — It’s a strange mash-up, but it works: Algae living inside tadpoles’ blood vessels can pump out oxygen for nearby oxygen-starved...
Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first...
Flame retardants are going green. Using compounds from plants, researchers are concocting a new generation of flame retardants, which one day could...
In a different reality, space might smell like almonds. After all, scientists surveying the chemicals in the cosmos have found benzonitrile; just...
When things heat up, most solids expand as higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate more dramatically, necessitating more space. But some solid...
Two sets of cosmic discoveries have garnered the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics. Half of the prize of 9 million Swedish kronor...
An elusive hypothetical particle comes in imitation form. Lurking within a solid crystal is a phenomenon that is mathematically similar to proposed...
Ice comes in many shapes and sizes, from mountainous icebergs to tiny flurries of snow. But few of us will ever come...
There seems to be something large lurking in the far reaches of the Solar System, messing with the orbits of some of...
Shifting tectonic plates, not atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, controlled the strength of the powerful East Asian monsoon throughout its history, scientists say....
Quantum supremacy is here, researchers from Google claim. For the first time, a quantum computer has solved a problem that can’t be...
Fiction is full of robots with feelings. Like that emotional kid David, played by Haley Joel Osment, in the movie A.I. Or...
We are quite literally having our brains washed every night. Neuroscientists have now produced a fascinating video that shows this nocturnal pulsing...
Lightning is one of the most unpredictable phenomena in nature. It regularly kills people and animals and sets fire to homes and...
For the first time, a chemical potentially responsible for widespread vaping-related lung injuries and deaths in the United States has been found...
A leaky galaxy might be offering up clues about a vast cosmic makeover foisted on the universe during its youth. Within about...
Step aside, whiskey connoisseurs. Scientists have a new way to discern quality among bourbons. An analysis of residues from evaporated bourbons reveals...
By watching how atoms behave when they’re suspended in midair, rather than in free fall, physicists have come up with a new...
Sea levels rose 10 metres above present levels during Earth’s last warm period 125,000 years ago, according to new research that offers...
A forest watered by acid rain may be less able to slake its thirst. That’s one finding from a decades-long experiment in...
It has long been thought that one of the reasons we humans developed large brains was to allow us to maintain complex social...
Software detected the woman almost six seconds before Uber’s self-driving car struck her, investigators say, in the crash that would lead to...
Filling your house with potted plants might make you happier and more productive, but it’s not going to make the air you...
For the first time in more than 40 years, NASA scientists have opened up a sample of Moon matter collected during the...
If you suffer from neck pain, you’re not alone. Spinal pain is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide and its...
An estimated 6 percent of people in the US and UK suffer from vitamin B12 deficiency. The condition is recognised by the...
Everybody knows to get a good night’s sleep if they want to feel their best, but the emotional consequences of not having...
The world’s insects are in trouble. In recent years, growing evidence has found a scary number of bugs are missing from the...