Science

It's a strange tale of two hemispheres. New research shows the Pacific hemisphere is losing heat faster than the African hemisphere. The heat is from Earth’s molten interior, which causes continental drift. Landmass traps more heat than seafloor surface, indicating a...

You’ve probably heard that NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history this year by becoming the first spacecraft to “touch the Sun.” Now there’s video of the probe whizzing through the Sun’s corona, and to say it’s breathtaking is an...

Bringing the beasts back from the dead is a tempting prospect. But genetic evidence suggests we may not fully understand what makes a mammoth. Can We Bring Back Mammoths From Extinction? Probably Not — Here’s Why Bringing the beasts back from...

It has just rained at the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history, in yet another worrying milestone in our ecological unravelling. Like much of the Northern Hemisphere, Greenland’s been experiencing a massive heatwave with...

From Earth's vantage point in one of the Milky Way's spiral arms, the structure of our galaxy is pretty difficult to reconstruct. That's because gauging the distance to something in space when you don't know its intrinsic brightness is really,...

A crucial ice shelf shielding the Thwaites "doomsday glacier" (pictured here) from rising could be destroyed in a few years, causing global sea levels to rise. NASA   One of the ever-looming threats of climate change is sea level rise, which already...

It’s often said Earth’s resources are finite. This is true enough. But shift your gaze skyward for a moment. Up there, amid the stars, lurks an invisible bonanza of epic proportions. Many of the materials upon which modern civilization is...

What if Humans are the aliens we’ve been looking for all along? According to experts, humans were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to...

  Narrator: Astronomers have found dozens of potentially habitable planets outside of our solar system. That's dozens of chances to discover the first alien life! Or plenty of places we could park our first interstellar colonies!   But with so many options, how do...

In zero-gravity, fluids float into the head and squash eyeballs over time. Image caption, The sleeping bag has a solid frame and sucks fluid down from the brain towards the feet Scientists have developed a hi-tech sleeping bag that could prevent the...