Heatwaves: why British trees are shedding branches and dying
If you visit the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, on the edge of London, you will see a…
‘Astronomers have to revise estimates’: The Milky Way may be larger, heavier and more lopsided than we realized
Two of the Milky Way‘s gigantic spiral arms appear to be much farther away than we realized, scientists…
Physicists Discover Superconducting States That Get Stronger Under Conditions Meant to Kill Them
Superconductivity, the ability for materials to conduct electricity with zero resistance, is a valuable scientific treasure. Researchers have…
This huge hairy-legged Australian arachnid may be the fastest spider on the planet | Australia news
If arachnophobes were not frightened enough by the horrific ability of Australia’s huntsman spiders to drag dead mice…
Physics says time travel into the future is not a thought experiment — every astronaut who has orbited Earth has returned a fraction of a second younger than they would have been if they had stayed on the ground
Time travel into the future sounds like a fiction problem until it is written in the language of…
Creature washed up on Newton Beach believed to be critically endangered
A wildlife expert has given their verdict on what they think the creature is 15:57, 09 Jul 2026Updated…
Sick of Earth? NASA is recruiting volunteers for a yearlong Moon and Mars simulation
For anyone who has ever wondered whether they could handle life on another planet, NASA is offering a…
Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusion
Using a quantum computer alongside a supercomputer, scientists have developed a breakthrough pathway for modeling the physics inside…
An Adorable Puppy-Eyed Seal Is the Star of These Award-Winning Photos
This seal is very cute. So adorable, in fact, that public voters couldn’t help but award it the…
Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should live in NASA’s lunar outpost?
The success of NASA’s future moon base depends in large part on mission design, which should allow astronauts…
Flooding from Tropical Storm Maysak kills 39 in southern China | Floods News
About 130,000 people have been evacuated from the Guangxi region while thousands of rescuers have been deployed. By…
A “Smart Ruler” Could Help Swarms of Space Telescopes Image Exoplanets
We’ve talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image…