Two new species have been discovered swimming off the coast of Western Australia and, like all deep-sea beasties, they are pretty unusual. Say hello to
If your first thought upon seeing the header for this article was “what the f**k is that?!”, don’t worry – we thought the same, and
The vicious claws of the hairy frog were first noted around 1900, but it wasn’t until after the turn of the millennium that scientists discovered
Magnets are probably the coolest “everyday” object you are introduced to as a child, and they don’t get any less awesome when you learn they
Money doesn’t grow on trees, so the old saying goes, but gold just might on the Christmas trees of Lapland. In a new study, scientists
Spiders are remarkable creatures. Resilient, innovative, and packed full of biological engineering that makes biomimeticists hot under the collar (and occasionally create grim “necrobots”). For
We have known about Comet 3I/ATLAS for just over four months, and astronomers across the world have been giddy with excitement. This is only the
Perhaps we should not be surprised by the strange ideas of conspiracy theorists, but we have recently come across a particularly odd belief that has
A new study of over 9,900 people with restless leg syndrome (RLS) has suggested that the condition appears to increase the risk of developing Parkinson’s
Life that has been frozen in Alaskan permafrost for up to 40,000 years has been “woken up” by scientists. In a recent mission to study
In May 2025, China began the construction of a new satellite constellation for what will eventually be a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer array in
The winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics are John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis, for the discovery of “Macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling
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It’s obvious the Sun is the source of both almost all the light by which we see, and most of heat that makes the Earth
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Albert Einstein, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the photoelectric effect and the great physicist behind general and special relativity,
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