Human languages are complex and versatile.

Near-mystical musings from a scientist who believes we are on the brink of a revolution in understanding ourselves

Science has strengthened theories that the ingredients for life could have been brought to Earth by comets impacting into our home planet.

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

Tiny Galaxies That Speak Volumes Our Milky Way is surrounded by dozens of smaller “satellite” galaxies. These aren’t mere clusters of stars, but true galaxies in their own right—though, compared to ou...

Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support life

In this part-time online Astronomy Certificate Course you will receive a comprehensive introduction to astronomy.

Dr Tiago Costa explains why many of the Universe's first massive galaxies stopped forming stars far earlier than expected.

Foundational postulates of the path-integral formulation observed in the lab

No matter how free we are, human existence will always be confined.

Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into human virus and cancer treatment

A federal judge has ordered the White House to immediately restore access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. NBC News’ Nikki Battiste and Gary Grumbach report on the judge’s ruling.

Radio signals have been detected coming from a planet beyond our Solar System, giving astronomers insight into exoplanets' magnetic fields.

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The finding pushes this selective planet-building process back to within the Solar System’s first million years.

We're one step closer to interstellar weather forecasting.

Gone was any shred of US idealism. It was a spectacle of raw power – a power that is likely to only diminish in the years ahead

President Trump said in his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly that the U.S. would "only encourage superintelligence" when it comes to AI development, a notable declaration as warnings abo...

Alzheimer's disease is starting to be considered as a treatable and preventable condition, a major new report says.

Genetic evidence has revealed a previously unknown gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands and shown that gentoos actually consist of four distinct species. The discovery also highlight...

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter, born in the Netherlands. It is surprising to know that though he's now seen as one of the most important artists in history, he remained mostly unrecognised durin...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

Tech billionaires are treating us all as guinea pigs in their AI experiment. A global coalition of experts, artists, and workers is fighting back. Let's join them!

A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs unexpectedly from another leading result, deepening a 225-year-old physics puzzle. The discrepancy is tiny, but for one of nature’s most fundamental constants, it is large enough to keep scientists wondering whether hidden experimental errors or something more surprising is involved.

Journalists from MS NOW, CNN and Politico were barred from accessing the White House grounds and had their passes confiscated on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump said that he had banned th...

All of Sheeran’s supporting acts pulled out of the tour after Macklemore was cancelled as a support act for making pro-Palestine comments on stage.

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