Scientists have developed a nuclear fuel source no larger than a seed, which NASA will test for use in future moon missions. | Continue reading
Apple's desktop line-up gets some love, and it's students that will win out with the Mac Mini M2 and Mac Mini M2 Pro. | Continue reading
Nicotine vapes and two drugs called varenicline and cytisine were found to be the stop-smoking aids most likely to help people quit. | Continue reading
"By colonizing the continents and moving to the source of the elements whose availability constrained their ocean-dwelling ancestors, land plants set themselves up to become the second great world-changers." | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered human bones and animal remains dating to around 7,000 years ago in Arabian stone structures known as mustatils. | Continue reading
The comet Nishimura, which was only discovered in August, will soon be slingshotted around the sun and back out toward the edge of the solar system where it will remain for centuries. | Continue reading
Archaeologists analyzed a number of artifacts from a pilgrimage camp in Israel that they think "sorcerers" used for magical purposes. | Continue reading
An immune-related gene variant has been tied to a reduced risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's across a huge, diverse population of people. | Continue reading
A modern reinvention of a legendary model, the OM System OM-1 is the best Micro Four Thirds camera ever made — and one of the best cameras, period. | Continue reading
If video is important to you, look no further than the Panasonic Lumix S5 IIX — which is arguably Panasonic's greatest camera ever. | Continue reading
Henon bamboo flowers only once every 120 years then vanishes for years, and researchers have no idea how it comes back to life. | Continue reading
The enormous alligator was over 13 feet long and weighed 920 pounds — the second heaviest ever to be caught in Florida. | Continue reading
ESA's wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica. | Continue reading
Scientists grew early-stage human kidneys inside pig embryos and found the kidneys were "structurally normal" and made up of around 60% human cells. | Continue reading
Researchers have shown that if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at Earth from a distant star, it could detect the signatures of intelligent life in our planet's atmosphere. | Continue reading
More than 2,500 people died when a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco on Sept. 8. | Continue reading
Sir Ian Wilmut was key to the successful creation of Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, in 1996. | Continue reading
Save big on the Apple Watch Series 8 at Amazon while stocks last. | Continue reading
Some of these aquatic reptiles of the dinosaur era had dozens of individual bones running down their long necks. | Continue reading
Many tortoise beetle larvae create shields for themselves using faeces and old skin. Scientists have now looked at how and why they create these poop parasols. | Continue reading
The remains have been identified as those of a gunner killed when the badly damaged aircraft crashed into the sea in 1943. | Continue reading
"We aren’t going to see little green men but rather spectral signatures of these key chemicals, or what we call biosignatures." | Continue reading
Earth is the only rocky body in the inner solar system with strong magnetic poles. But where do these poles come from, and what do they do? | Continue reading
Sept. 8, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. | Continue reading
Two planet-sized sunspots peer out from behind what will be the world's largest telescope, currently being built on a mountaintop in Chile. | Continue reading
Mayflies are famous for cramming an entire life into a single day, but that's not strictly true. | Continue reading
In camera trap footage captured in the Alaskan wilderness, the moose appears to try to fight off the bear, as the wolf goes after the calf. | Continue reading
The "yeti" crab is white and hairy, as its nickname suggests, and it thrives in hydrothermal vents in Antarctica's frigid waters. | Continue reading
The answer depends on the design of the bullet and the gun, as well as on what happens once the bullet leaves the muzzle. | Continue reading
An amateur metal detectorist hit pay dirt in Norway, finding a collection of 1,500-year-old gold jewelry. | Continue reading
NASA's Perseverance rover has generated 4.3 ounces of breathable oxygen while on the Red Planet — enough to sustain an adult human for three hours. | Continue reading
These human remains may hint at the collapse of the 'magnificent' city of Ayanis. | Continue reading
The five asteroids range from plane to bus-size, and one is expected to come to within half a million miles of Earth. | Continue reading
The winner of the Bird Photographer of the Year was Jack Zhi, who caught the moment a peregrine falcon took on a large brown pelican. | Continue reading
The East Anatolian fault — the source of the earthquake that killed over 59,000 people in Turkey and Syria in February, 2023 — was created when the Eurasian and Arabian plates collided around five million years ago. | Continue reading
Legend has it that "rainbow cups" are drops of gold that fall to Earth at the end of a rainbow. | Continue reading
Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning. | Continue reading
During thunderstorms, leaves from trees and other plants create mini electric discharges that can significantly alter the surrounding air quality. But researchers are unsure if this is beneficial or harmful. | Continue reading
Evidence points to the map being made by Hipparchus, the "father of scientific astronomy." | Continue reading
The Black Death pushed certain protective genetic variants to become more common in survivors' descendants, DNA from the Middle Ages reveals. | Continue reading
The hybrid consists of the omicron variant's spike protein attached to the original virus | Continue reading
The CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences, a company that wants to bring woolly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers back from extinction using DNA editing. | Continue reading
The human remains trade is thriving on Facebook and Instagram. | Continue reading
The scientists need lunar samples from future Artemis missions to confirm their hypothesis. | Continue reading
It could disrupt satellites, cause power outages and lead to problems for airplane navigation systems. | Continue reading
The bizarre blob was traveling at 30% the speed of light. | Continue reading
Astronomers observed dozens of objects that "cannot be scientifically identified." | Continue reading