In 2026, a team of astronauts will float inside a glossy white cylinder orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth.
They’ll gaze down at the planet through a 1.1-metre domed window, sleep in inflatable beds designed for zero gravity, and carry out experiments on the human body, plant growth…
New Jersey is the new Roswell – or so it might seem after a swarm of bright lights, glowing orange-red orbs and unidentified flying objects filled the skies throughout December 2024.
As expected, these strange orbs gave rise to a flood of conspiracy theories involving UFOs and foreign…
Suppose you could speed up Earth’s rotation so that a day was only half as long? What would happen? Well, for starters we’d have to make new clocks that only have hours 1 to 6 for am and pm. If you had tickets to an 8 o’clock concert, you’d be out of luck: 8 o’clock no longer exists.
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have succeeded in transforming certain plastic waste into acetaminophen using the natural properties of the common bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli). This breakthrough represents a milestone with the potential to drive more sustainable methods of
A belt of swirly, stripey rock in the northeast reaches of Canada looks like it contains some of the oldest minerals ever found on our planet’s surface.
A new dating analysis of minerals in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt suggests that parts of the formation could be as old as 4.16 billion…
It’s fertility on ice. Egg-freezing boomed in the last decade, with a 400 percent increase since 2012. Now, research about sperm…
The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according…
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been…
A new study has pinpointed what could be the oldest rocks on Earth, found within a remote Canadian rock formation, offering fresh insights into…
Mice with two fathers and no mother have now had offspring of their own. The study is a breakthrough in androgenesis – that is, asexual reproduction using only genetic material from male animals.
We’ve seen androgenesis in mice work in the lab before: earlier this year, researchers were…