Science

PSR B1919+21, the first neutron star ever detected, was picked up by Jocelyn Bell Burnell in Cambridge in…

What would it be like to stand at the boundary between night and day on a planet locked…

After being cared for by humans since birth, an 11-week-old orangutan named Sibu Junior has now been moved…

How do you listen for something quieter than almost anything else in nature, a signal built from ghostly…

Dame Judi Dench has demanded that Iceland “turn the page” on commercial whaling and become a top destination…

We’ve had a quick first-look at the latest episode of The Sky at Night, due to be broadcast…

A $2.4 million research project will investigate Queensland’s shark population and behaviour in a bid to improve swimmer…

Danish researchers have identified a new beetle genus from China and Laos and named it Luffy after the…

French officials rushed two firefighting planes to the Paris region on Sunday after a “very virulent” fire of…

Topline Here comes a classic crescent moon-and-meteors week. Tuesday, July 14, sees a new moon — when our…

Infrared cameras can be used to spot useful information that our eyes can’t see, such as gases escaping…

Pollinators – including bees, flies, wasps, moths, butterflies and some nectar-loving birds – are a cornerstone of our…

A single teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about four billion tonnes on Earth — roughly the mass of a mountain — because the star has crushed the equivalent of the Sun into a sphere the width of a city