A Powerful Solar Storm Likely Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
It’s a stark reminder of the Sun’s potential to disrupt our technological activities in unexpected ways.
It’s a stark reminder of the Sun’s potential to disrupt our technological activities in unexpected ways.
A decade before Adolf Hitler rose to power, famed physicist Albert Einstein was already sensing imminent peril for his country and his own welfare.
It’s the oldest known case of lead exposure in hominin remains, which presents the question: How could this have possibly happened so long ago?
At an estimated 13.53 billion years old, it’s among the first generation of stars to have appeared after the Big Bang.
The ability to put our clothes on is something most of us take for granted, but when AI is involved, it’s a surprisingly complicated task.
Roboticists obviously have a long way to go before the sci-fi vision of Transformers are realised, but this research is a positive step in that direction.
It’s a dream experiment, but one grounded in real science.
It now holds the record for the closest approach to the Sun by a human-built object – and also the record for the fastest spacecraft ever sent into space.
Not quite as tasty as Pedigree Chum.
New evidence suggests that humans made their way into North America up to 2,500 years earlier than previously believed.
This latest study is adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting a South American origin of human-cultivated cacao.
A new scanning technique sheds fresh light on a dino fossil first discovered in 2009.
Humans, as history shows, are good at making the stuff that makes even better stuff.
The fishy discovery could tell us something about how life emerges on other habitable planets
Bask in all their cosmological glory.
New photos are offering the full picture of this now-famous Antarctic structure.
