Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space. Pictured is an artist's illustration showing how the MeerKAT telescope detected this record-breaking megamaser. … [+29207 chars]
An event described in the Chinese Bamboo Annals is considered by some a description of a bright aurora. If so, at almost 3,000 years old, this would be the earliest account of such an event whose dat… [+3577 chars]
image: Circadian rhythms of the phosphorylation cycle (red circle with P indicating the phosphor transfer) and the ATP hydrolysis cycle (blue circle with ATP and ADP indicating the conversion of Aden… [+4862 chars]
The ability to visually represent artefacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic and metal, or organics such as bone and plant material, has always been of great importance to the field of anthrop… [+3586 chars]
The contraption known as the Antikythera mechanism, often dubbed the worlds first computer, was first turned on on 22 December 178 BC, claims a study published in preprint online journal arXiv. An el… [+5255 chars]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Follow the pollen. Records from past plant life tell the real story of global temperatures, according to research from a climate scientist at Washington University… [+3950 chars]
For all their death-defying abilities, one thing that tardigrades are pretty rubbish at is walking long distances, though new research suggests that the podgy little moss piglets may be able to overc… [+3316 chars]
Scientists have discovered a so-called "missing-link" supermassive black hole hidden not in the depths of space, but in archive data. According to the international research team behind the discover… [+2209 chars]
While we all know that dinosaurs died because of a massive asteroid strike against the Earth, many of us still do not understand how an asteroid that impacted one local geographic location can kill a… [+2087 chars]
By Doug Norrie | 1 hour ago As we peer out into the cosmos, into the furthest reaches of the known (and even unknown) galaxies, it stands to reason that we will continue to new objects for the firs… [+2760 chars]
Standing on Earth almost 4 billion years ago would have been an incredibly hot, desperately lonely, and very short experience what with there being no oxygen. Now, new research suggests there would h… [+3118 chars]
image: Circadian rhythms of the phosphorylation cycle (red circle with P indicating the phosphor transfer) and the ATP hydrolysis cycle (blue circle with ATP and ADP indicating the conversion of Aden… [+4862 chars]
