Category: Science & Technology

Along the coasts of Chile and Peru you may find a “living rock” that looks like it bleeds. Known to science as Pyura chilensis, it’s

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is expected to become brighter than Venus next week, and will probably be the brightest comet of 2025. It has already

The mystery surrounding one of the largest megalithic monuments in the Middle East has deepened significantly, as new research has just shattered the popular theory

It’s the “Bleak Midwinter” in the Northern Hemisphere – so, in case you’ve been living under a well-insulated rock, cold weather and snowfalls are hardly

One of Yellowstone National Park’s oldest gray wolves, a one-eyed matriarch dubbed 907F, has died after sustaining wounds in a fight with a rival pack.

Newly compiled records are spilling the beans on one of the CIA’s most notorious and shadowy programs: MKUltra, a wild attempt to develop mind control

When you die on Earth, you generally know what will happen to your body, even if you’d rather not. But what happens to it if

In the animal kingdom, it is often the case that males are bigger, louder, and more visually impressive to look at. All this posturing shows

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

Have you ever wondered how it is that plants avoid pollinating themselves? Walnut trees have evolved to avoid this by separating their male and female

The Magyars – or Hungarians – were among the most feared warriors of the medieval world, and were particularly renowned for their deadly skill as

Early Cambrian fossils reveal how a small, shelled animal evolved to deal with attacks from a predator. The finds confirm a popular hypothesis, until now

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced new draft recommendations to improve the accuracy of pulse oximeters – devices used to estimate blood

The horseshoe crab is a living fossil that’s been scuttling along shorelines virtually unchanged for 445 million years, long before dinosaurs ever stomped across the

A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space within a reasonable timescale, using relativistic electron beams. Space

Our Moon is surprisingly massive compared to Earth, but that ratio is dwarfed if we consider Pluto and Charon. The latter is about 12 percent

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the first light that was able to freely move across the Universe. Released around 400,000 years after the Big