There have been around 945 episodes of Star Trek, spread across more than a dozen shows, aired over sixty years. Yet for all the times Starfleet crew members have probed the intricacies of alien civil ...

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the ...

A vortex tube splits a stream of air into hot and cold! This is how it works and why it doesn't violate the second law of thermodynamics.

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are “mind ...

Ever since ChatGPT’s debut in 2023, concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) potentially wiping out humanity have dominated headlines. New research from Georgia Tech suggests that those ...

For scientists who study the Southern Ocean, a long-standing silver lining in the gloomy forecast of climate change has been ...

Scientists think Venus once had oceans, water, and a climate that may have resembled early Earth. But something pushed the ...

A new study of carbon-based molecules in a Martian rock offers new hints about the possibility that the red planet once ...

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilised egg as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a disordered tangle of ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) If the headlines are to be believed, kids these days are getting dumber. Some of the data – which indicate that Gen Z individuals are performing worse than their parents in ...

The Lunar Gateway is planned space station that will orbit the Moon. It is part of the Nasa‑led Artemis programme. Artemis aims to return humans to the Moon, establishing a sustainable presence the ...