A newly developed method of levitating and manipulating tiny objects using sound waves could represent a major step forward for the technology. Engineers in Japan have...
In 2018, a message in a bottle dating back to 1886 – 132 years ago – was found half-buried in the sand of a Western Australian...
Planetary formation is a complicated, multilayered process. Even with the influx of data on exoplanets, there are still only two known planets that are not yet...
The “little helicopter that could” has done it again. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, a tissue-box-sized rotorcraft that landed with the Perseverance rover in February, completed...
Making sense of the world after birth, let alone navigating it, isn’t something we expect human infants to do. Baby mice, however, seem to have a...
Spanish prison authorities were baffled after a prisoner who was declared dead by three separate doctors woke up in the morgue – just hours before his...
Space is full of hazards. The Earth, and its atmosphere, does a great job of shielding us from most of them. But sometimes those hazards are...
As a child grows and develops, the neurons in their brain are said to branch like trees. Being around this very type of foliage could actually...
Many of us enjoy a cup of coffee or two throughout the day, but a new study suggests that too much of the stuff could shrink...
Dig a teaspoon into your nearest clump of soil, and what you’ll emerge with will contain more microorganisms than there are people on Earth. We know...