Science

From how constipation affects the mating prospects of scorpions to an analysis of what makes legal documents unnecessarily difficult to...

After trundling around the Jezero crater for 550 Martian days, NASA’s Perseverance rover has amassed nearly half its planned rock...

Planetary scientists are racing to establish the origin of a bright fireball seen over parts of the UK on 14...

“I remember years ago, in the ’60s, when I was a teenager, minding so much about all the things that...

Every country worldwide needs an early warning system for climate-related disasters within five years. That statement by the United Nations...

Photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station show that streetlights are getting gradually more blue-tinged in many countries...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has also created challenges for space diplomacy. At the UN meeting, several diplomats expressed support for...

Day after day, week after week, the United States faces a barrage of climate extremes: wildfires in California. Drought on...

Several companies are making plans to mine and sell lunar resources, like rock and water ice. Now the race is...

I was first just reading about how MRIs have got really big magnets in them, and thinking: I know that...

The skeleton of a person who lived 31,000 years ago bears hallmarks of the deliberate removal of their lower left...

Diamonds found in four meteorites in north-west Africa probably came from an ancient dwarf planet, and they are expected to...

Dan Preston logs in to our video call in a respectable, nondescript button-up shirt. His personal style may lean toward...

“This is interesting. Not too thick,” said Jim Crawford, an atmospheric chemist wearing a motion-sickness patch behind his ear. It...

Astronomers are concerned that the BlueWalker 3 satellite, which will use an antenna the size of a squash court to...

During a late summer heat wave in California, golden hour becomes danger hour. In the offices of the California Independent...