In case you haven’t heard, the world ends tomorrow. Friday 21 December 2012 is the date that the Maya Long…
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It is the world’s biggest haul of human fossils and the most important palaeontology site in Europe: a subterranean chamber…
SpaceX founder/Tony Stark movie inspiration Elon Musk made some heads turn this week, as heads are wont to do when…
Scientists trying to unravel the mystery of life’s origins have been looking at it the wrong way, a new study…
By Jim Miklaszewski and Alan Boyle The object that North Korea sent into space early Thursday appears to be “tumbling…
What is it that has struck in Värmland? SOS, police and air rescue center has received calls from concerned Värmlandsbor…
The notion of the “new normal” of extreme weather is a farce, according to a recent report by the environmental…
Light reflected by the Amazon rainforest’s vegetation could help an orbiting satellite find the elusive fertile patches of soil known…
An ambitious project to catalogue every habitable planet has discovered seven worlds inside the Milky Way that could possibly harbour…
When researchers sent plants to the International Space Station in 2010, the flora wasn’t meant to be decorative. Instead, the…
We’ve seen bio-inspired hummingbird robots, turtle robots, squirrel robots and more… enough to start an extremely profitable robot zoo. But…
The 12 matter particles we know about are all the types there are, according to researchers analysing CERN data.
The secretive U.S. Air Force X-37B robotic space plane has been cleared to lift off Tuesday (Dec. 11).
North Korea has succeeded in launching a ‘weather satellite’ into space. Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said…
An international team of astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard…
After plans were announced for private investment to be the driving force for a return to the lunar surface, speculation…
The loss of ice covering Greenland and Antarctica has accelerated over the last 20 years, shrinking three times as much…
Possible caverns have been recently identified on Mars, and their existence has caught much scientific and public attention because of…