The natural world holds beauty even at a microscopic scale, and each year, Nikon’s Small World photo competition opens our eyes to a whole new realm...
So far we know of only two interstellar objects (ISO) to visit our Solar System. They are ‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov. There’s a third possible ISO named CNEOS 2014-01-08, and research...
As well as the local and immediate threat to life and property they present, bushfires can also have far-reaching, long-lasting consequences for the rest of the...
Two polished stone balls shaped about 5,500 years ago – linked to a mysterious practice almost unique to Neolithic Britain – have been discovered in an...
A stunning new video shows the giant ice sheet that molded the Scottish landscape during the last ice age, and it looks like something out of Game...
By disrupting the thermodynamic equilibrium of liquids, physicists have made them behave quite differently from how they do in nature – managing to coax liquids into...
Having evolved with storytelling as a means to pass information across generations, our brains are powerfully attuned to narratives, so much so that we can recall...
Physicists have created the first-ever atomic vortex beam – a swirling tornado of atoms and molecules with mysterious properties that have yet to be understood. By sending a...
Gravitational wave interferometers such as LIGO are deeply impressive feats of engineering, honed over years to measure the barely-detectable ripples in space-time generated by massive cosmic...
While quantum computers are already here, they’re very much limited prototypes for now. It’s going to take a while before they’re fulfilling anything close to their maximum...