China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft Capable of Penetrating US Missile Defence Systems
The purpose of the aircraft was not disclosed, but it has undeniable militaristic implications.
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The purpose of the aircraft was not disclosed, but it has undeniable militaristic implications.
A new study out of Switzerland suggests that keto diets might have an unintended effect on the ability to process insulin.
It probably wasn’t from aliens, but it's still pretty cool and the first of its kind.
“As a scientist, I find myself continually wondering: how much more synthesis and good evidence do we need to cause society to take this issue seriously?”
"Proving that a site is related to a past tsunami could lead to a fundamental rewrite of how we interpret coastal human settlement in prehistory"
Geoengineering our planet to solve climate change is one of the riskiest propositions humanity has ever considered
There are lots of strange things in our stellar neighbourhood, and brown dwarfs continue to challenge scientists’ definitions of “planet”.
Given their current popularity, you may think that probiotics are perfectly harmless, but new research is challenging that assumption.
The resulting images show a scene that’s surprisingly packed with astronomical activity.
The system is an utterly inhospitable enigma.
A midterm review of NASA's progress over the last decade suggests it needs to step up its discovery mission game.
These photos offer an unprecedented view of the asteroid’s boulder-strewn surface.
A team of scientists recently spotted a kind of planetary nebula that looks to be inside out.
Spacecraft gather data, but it’s up to humans to turn it all into images that look nice.
There’s a strange gender paradox at the heart of cardiovascular disease.
Is the implementation of truly non-racist (as opposed to just “colourblind”) face recognition really possible?
