Gigantic superflares burst out of Sun-like stars roughly once every 100 years, releasing as much energy as a trillion hydrogen bombs exploding. Could this mean
Imagine knowing you’ve already made an important contribution to biomedical research before you’ve even started high school. This is a reality for a young Chicago
Hailed as “another feat in human history”, China has announced the completion of a 3,046-kilometer (1,892-mile) sand-blocking green belt along the Taklimakan Desert, the nation’s
This week on Break It Down: fishers discover a mysterious tablet bearing an unknown language, sequencing the oldest human genome reveals when we first bred
Spit in a tube and we’ll tell you where you come from: that’s the basic premise being offered up by DNA ancestry kits, which have
Microplastics are everywhere, which is why scientists have been dedicating a lot of time to trying to figure out a way to safely extract them.
A group of 38 leading experts in fields ranging from synthetic biology to the existence of life beyond Earth has come together to determine the
Being stocky can have its advantages, especially when it comes to hunting prehistoric game. According to a new reconstruction of the Neanderthal ribcage, our extinct
NASA’s Juno flew by the little volcanic moon Io multiple times between December 2023 and February 2024. It was the closest approach in decades and
If you own a car, you may have noticed that a little warning light, depicting a flat tire with an exclamation mark in the middle,
As large parts of the Northern Hemisphere play the game of wondering if it will snow for Christmas, we thought it might be time to
Academics and armchair archaeologists still can’t agree on the date when Pompeii was destroyed in a shower of volcanic hellfire. It was almost certainly sometime
A collection of particles known as a quasiparticle has been detected behaving as if it has mass when it moves in one direction, but becomes
On Olkiluoto island in the west of Finland, a tomb will soon be opening. When it is sealed, the hope is that it will remain
A new study has warned that consuming more ultra-processed foods could potentially accelerate biological aging. Ultra-processed foods have been getting more media attention in recent
Palolo worms must have one of the strangest life cycles in the animal kingdom, although there is plenty of competition. Driven by the cycles of
On a cold morning, if you can think anything beyond “I’m cold”, you may have noticed that frost doesn’t form very much in areas underneath
