Stephen Hawking's most famous theory about black holes has just been given a sinister update — one that proclaims that everything in the univers…
A new search for extraterrestrial life aims to find out by listening for radio pulses from the center of our galaxy. Narrow-frequency pulses are n…
Physicists have long puzzled over why there is more matter in the Universe than its flipped twin, antimatter. Without this imbalance, the two types …
In the Oscar-winning movie "Interstellar", which was scientifically supervised by the theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, one of the most i…
A new species of dinosaur identified by Mexican palaeontologists is believed to have been "very communicative" and used low-frequency sou…
Since its founding in 2016, Elon Musk's neurotechnology company Neuralink has had the ambitious mission to build a next-generation brain implant …
Erik W Lentz , an astrophysicist from the University of Göttingen, Germany, proposed a theoretical solution to create Warp Engines , which will allow…
A large predatory dinosaur related to Spinosaurus may have scooped up prey "like a pelican" by extending its lower jaw, European researche…
The debate over the ancestors of sea sponges (left) and comb jellies (right) has been going on for decades. Scientists have made a groundbreaking dis…
Scientists have painstakingly constructed the world's biggest butterfly tree of life and discovered that the first butterflies evolved 100 millio…
Astronomers long thought that a peculiar star system observed by the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite was a simple case of a star orbiting …
Every color, every flash, every sunray exacts a toll on the light-sensitive tissues at the back of our eyes, producing toxic materials that risk dama…
Life reconstruction of Protathlitis cinctorrensis. Image credit: Oscar Sanisidro / Grup Guix. A new genus and species of spinosaurid dinosaur being n…