Smoke began billowing into the skies of northwestern Nevada in September, clouding the mountains, dimming the sun—and quashing residents’ hopes that they would be spared from wildfires and the awful…
Around 67 million years ago in what is now North Dakota, a duck-billed dinosaur keeled over and died, and crocodiles’ ancient relatives descended on the carcass, tearing holes through the…
Rats kept awake after exploring novel objects remembered the original items, but not where they’d seen them, raising interesting questions about human sleep.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the company can no longer pay for the Starlink satellites providing internet for Ukraine’s government and military. What you need to know Technology | Analysis…
A distant black hole shredded a star in 2018, and released a plume of plasma travelling around 50 per cent the speed of light two years later – astronomers don’t…
As more data centres are being built to meet growing demand, their water use is coming under scrutiny – particularly in regions of the US affected by the ongoing megadrought…
In a laboratory study, human epithelial cells were treated with the lubricant before being exposed to HIV or a herpes virus, with subsequent infection rates being as low as 20…
The world’s largest digital camera for astronomy is taller than a car, has as many pixels as 266 iPhones and will, over the course of the next 10 years, help…
A quantum engine built using two entangled quantum bits uses measurements as a source of energy. It could speed up the way some quantum computers process information Physics 12 October…
There are plenty of apps that offer mental exercises claiming to make users smarter the more they play. Not only are they not much fun, but studies show they have…