The glow-in-the-dark bats you’re hanging to decorate for Halloween might be more biologically accurate than you thought. A new study from scientists at the University of Georgia in the US has confirmed that some North American bats glow under UV light.
The team examined 60 museum specimens…
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland recently taught the one-armed, four-legged ANYmal search and rescue robot to play badminton against a human.
Fans of the sport may be relieved to learn that ANYmal’s skills are unlikely to oust humans from the court any time soon, but training the robot…
Not to be all gothic and theatrical, but the darkness is coming. Come the end of October, the clocks go back. Suddenly, the Sun will set before 5pm and we’ll walk around in astonishment as though it hasn’t happened every year previously.
The shock is real, however; we feel it in our very…
A 40-year-old male tourist was swimming and filming about 100m from shore in Hadera off the coast of Israel in April when he was suddenly…
The idea that eating less might make us live longer has been around for thousands of years. Even Hippocrates, the Ancient Greek physician, argued that, “When a patient is fed too richly, the disease is fed as well. Any excess is against nature.”
Scientists have now spent decades testing whether…
Astronomers have discovered a peculiar ‘moon’ shadowing Earth as it moves through space. Known as a quasi-moon, it doesn’t orbit our planet directly but stays nearby as both travel around the Sun.
According to new research published in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society,…
The Earth has just added its seventh confirmed quasilunar moon. It is 2025 PN7, a small Apollo-type asteroid detected in August solely by its brightness, thanks to the Hawaiian Pan-STARRS 1 telescope.
After analyzing its trajectory, scientists concluded that the object maintains a 1:1 resonance…
The visible signs of ageing – wrinkles, greying hair, aching joints – are only the surface expression of something far more intricate happening inside our cells. Beneath the surface, every organ in the body undergoes its own subtle molecular transformation as we grow older.
Now, scientists…
Hundreds of seal pups have been discovered dead on Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic, with Australian scientists investigating whether a
