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…
Scientists have created superheated rings of plasma that mimic the shining accretion disks that rotate around black holes at incredible speeds. The …
Once we've overcome all the challenges involved in getting to Mars, we'll then have to figure out how to make life sustainable there – and gr…