A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

The team, from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, designed an experiment to test escape behavior in ...

L urking in the cooling canals of a Florida nuclear power plant, an unlikely population of American alligators has taken up residence and continues to thrive. Fear not – the crocodiles aren’t glowing, ...

Suni Williams conducted a record-breaking spacewalk outside the ISS. An amateur astrophotographer photographed her from Earth.

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Quantum devices use qubits (quantum bits), which allow computations to extend from the classical 0 and 1 options of bits. Papic and his group have used a 5,564-qubit quantum annealer to simulate a one ...

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

The super-low, super-loud songs of flight species like blue and fin whales are the perfect tool: they can attract a female from hundreds of kilometers away, while being acoustically invisible to ...

A trip to a local pond brings a whole new respect knowing the beaked inhabitants evolved when T-Rexes were still around.

B oiling an egg feels like walking a tightrope: misjudge it by just a fraction and you’ll end up with either a snot-like ...

The threat of Asteroid 2024 YR4 has not gone away just yet. The near-Earth object was discovered in December and calculations ...