If there’s one thing our Solar System doesn’t have in short supply, it’s rocks. Small rocks, chunky rocks, dry rocks, icy rocks. Rocks that are like...
When the Nobel Prize-winning US physicist Robert Hofstadter and his team fired highly energetic electrons at a small vial of hydrogen at the Stanford Linear Accelerator...
Pre-human history is immensely hard to untangle. There are no early writings from the Neanderthals handily summarizing all the differences between the Australopithecus and the Orrorin. While we’re finding more...
In the beginning, there was … well, maybe there was no beginning. Perhaps our Universe has always existed – and a new theory of quantum gravity...
A new kind of chemotherapy derived from a molecule found in a Himalayan fungus has been revealed as a potent anti-cancer agent, and may in the...
AstraZeneca’s antibody drug cut the risk of severe COVID-19 by at least 50 percent in a late stage study, the company announced on Monday. The injection, called...
Some problems are so big, you can’t really see them. Climate change is the perfect example. The basics are simple: the climate is heating up due...
Astronomers have found a collection of stars doing something unexpected. Within 160 light-years of the Solar System, four red dwarf stars that should be quiet in...
On October 8, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured something strikingly rare from on board the International Space Station (ISS). The photo – which is a single frame taken...
As winter looms and hospitals across the US continue to be deluged with severe cases of COVID-19, flu season presents a particularly ominous threat this year....