The world’s largest wind-powered cargo ship has embarked on a transatlantic voyage, loaded with a cargo hold full of fancy wine and jam. Sailing Vessel
There aren’t many in the animal world that would like to go toe to toe with a lion. However, despite what Disney movies would have
Ultraprecise timekeeping has made major leaps in the last several years. There are clocks that are hundreds of times more accurate than the standard atomic
Puffling season has returned to Iceland and with it comes a peculiar site: humans tossing the baby birds off of cliffs. It sounds like cruelty
Without an immune system, we wouldn’t be here. It is the crucial way our bodies defend against microbes and parasites that aim to use our
Wade out into the waters of western and northern Australia and, if you’re lucky, you might just stumble across the biggest snail in the world.
Colors are not a static entity, but are subjective both in personal and in cultural terms. So it is no surprise to see a little
A man found frozen in a cave in Pennsylvania, USA, has been identified by authorities, 47 years after his death. On a bitterly cold day
BepiColombo is a revolutionary mission that will study the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System like never before. But its fate became uncertain
A new model suggests that the universe did not undergo a Big Bang followed by inflation, as the prevailing model suggests, but a cycle of
Earlier this year, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore departed for the International Space Station (ISS) for what was meant to be an eight-day trip.
Saturn is one of the nicer objects to gawp at when you have access to a telescope or binoculars, being large enough to get a
New research is opening a window into the brain’s prediction machinery, showing how two brain regions work together when something unexpected happens. As well as
Iceland has been having something of a bumper year when it comes to volcanic activity, with lava flows causing all sorts of bother, even leading
The ocean wasn’t a fun place to be during the Mesozoic era, which featured a string of periods during which its waters were extremely depleted
Do you ever find yourself wondering what prehistoric slugs would’ve looked like? Yeah, us too. It’s hard to place them on the ancient Earth and
We live in an age where things like “the Earth orbits the sun” and “Kepler’s third law” are well known, and yet the majesty of
