N ASA has just given an update on the status of Artemis II and the Artemis program in general. NASA administrator Jared ...

“The results demonstrate that Homo sapiens during the late [Middle Stone Age] mastered precise, pre-planned patterns anchored in specific geometric affordances: orthogonality [meaning the use of right ...

Their plight is a microcosm of the global crisis. Wild tigers now occupy less than 6 percent of their historic range, with 4,500 or fewer individuals scattered across just 63 fragmented landscapes. A ...

Once in power, Franco was largely uninterested in the Sagrada Família throughout his 36-year rule, and progress stagnated. It wasn't until 1976, the year after the dictator died, that the bell towers ...

“Stay tuned for an update from us,” ESA has announced, and we can’t wait to see what else will come from JUICE. This might be one of the closest observations of an object from deep space, unless a ...

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

"No matter how it happened, we do know that with a mother to protect it, feed it, and teach it how to be a polar bear, the cub’s chances of survival are far better now than if it was left on its own." ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.

“Our analyses show that the historical [human Rhinovirus] A genome represents an extinct lineage closely related to HRV A19 ...

To uncover these surprising sexual preferences, researchers examined the sex chromosomes of both modern humans and Neanderthals. In females, these consist of a pair of X chromosomes, while males ...

Protect independent science journalism. Gain access to all articles, ad-free and exclusive content! James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes ...

Comets are a trickier prospect. The first spots of direct evidence, collected in the 1990s by the Giotto spacecraft and later ...