Dark Splotches on Venus Could Be Signs of Life
Our planetary neighbour may not be so unfriendly after all.
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Our planetary neighbour may not be so unfriendly after all.
Like many silly ideas, it all started with a tweet—but it’s all real science, we promise!
This is the second set of dino tracks discovered on the Scottish island.
The country’s small size and high-tech abilities make it the ideal place to try and launch such an initiative.
A red dwarf star came within 0.8 light-years of our Sun some 70,000 years ago, marking what could have been the closest known flyby of a star to our Solar System.
Two teams of scientists report seeing single, twinkling stars in galaxies billions of light years away with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope.
It’s the first time that scientists have ever seen such a thing in a jawed terrestrial animal.
During World War I, the British economy was in tatters after the predominantly male workforce had been sent to the front lines. With the men gone, the task of keeping the country ticking over fell to women.
Tiangong-1's much discussed descent to Earth ends with an anticlimactic plop into the Pacific Ocean.
Stay far, far away from synthetic marijuana products.
USDA are happy to approve CRISPR-edited foods, as long as said edit could have been hypothetically achieved through more natural means.
It's hoped the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will help astronomers discover habitable planets–and perhaps even life–beyond the Solar System.
A dreaded superbug nightmare has become reality for one man in the UK.
The controversial paper is retracted after a new journal found its authors made "careless mistakes".
Research has suggested that certain phthalates can muck with the organs and glands.
If you haven’t taken a moment to really look at butterflies, you’re missing out.
