Of all the senses we love to indulge, scent is often neglected – but the right smells could be just what your brain needs to keep it whirring in old age. Researchers at the...
More than 100 medical journals across the world issued a rare joint call on Thursday for urgent action to eliminate nuclear weapons, warning that the threat of nuclear catastrophe was “great and growing”. The...
A record-breaking binary system has been found with a rotation so tight, both objects could comfortably fit inside the Sun. Called ZTF J2020+5033, its just 457 light-years away and consists of a high-mass brown...
The bones of a whale that lived 39 million years ago are seriously testing what we thought was possible for the size of vertebrates. The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) has long been considered the...
A young star is lashing its orbiting exoplanet with so much fury that it’s sporadically ripping away vast amounts of atmosphere. The exoplanet is AU Microscopii b (or AU Mic b), and it’s orbiting...
The way that a young child’s brain hums along at rest could predict their active intelligence later in life. Researchers in the United States and Germany have followed up on a past study in...
Scientists are constantly searching for better ways to store renewable energy, and MIT researchers have now found a way to turn cement and an ancient material into a giant supercapacitor. Potentially, this electrified cement...
The earliest impact scars from asteroids that bombarded Earth’s surface may be lost forever to the ravages of time. According to a new analysis, there’s a reason scientists have been unable to find any...
The Euclid space telescope, launched July 1 on a mission to shed more light on elusive dark matter and dark energy, has reached its destination orbit and on Monday its European operators revealed its...
A 54-year-old Florida man diagnosed with leprosy adds to a growing number of cases detected in the south-eastern United States, which appears to be a new hotspot for the disease. It follows recent alerts...