Astrophysics

Zombie galaxy came back to life after 20 million years

Galaxies that stop making stars don’t usually start up again, but now we’ve seen...

Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof

The first ever full-scale demonstration of a nuclear reactor designed to passive...

Green belts around cities help keep them cool

Areas of rural countryside around cities are intended to prevent urban sprawl, b...

Windows computers around the world are failing in a maj...

An update to a piece of software called CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor appears to be ...

New species of Portuguese man o' war discovered in the ...

Genetic analysis shows that there are four varieties of Portuguese man o’ war, o...

How to unsnarl a tangle of threads, according to physics

A jiggling robot has revealed the ideal vibrating speed to free jumbled fibres

Retinol's anti-ageing effects may work by changing your...

Retinol, which is commonly added to anti-ageing skincare products, may improve h...

NASA's cancelled moon rover calls 2026 crewed landing i...

The VIPER moon rover was due to launch in 2025 but NASA has suddenly cancelled i...

Why the UK was so ill prepared for the covid-19 pandemic

The UK had no plans for preventing or limiting the spread of a covid-19-like inf...

Is sharing your smartphone PIN part of a healthy relati...

Smartphones contain some of our most intimate data, but are you willing to share...

Many people think AI is already sentient - and that's a...

A survey of people in the US has revealed the widespread belief that artificial ...

Are animals conscious? We’re finally realising that man...

Science is at last confirming what many people have long suspected - that mammal...

Watch bees defend their nest by slapping ants with thei...

When ants try to invade their nest, Japanese honeybees flutter their wings and t...

Blood-thinning drug heparin may stop snakebite victims ...

Giving mice the blood-thinning drug heparin after they were injected with venom ...

Tiny jellyfish robots made of ferrofluid can be control...

Researchers combined hydrogel with magnetic ferrofluid to make small jellyfish r...

Butchered bones hint humans were in South America 21,00...

Prehistoric mammal bones found at a construction site in Argentina appear to hav...

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