Scientists tested Galileo and Einstein’s theories by dropping two objects inside this satellite named MICROSCOPE (artist’s impression). In the 17th century, famed astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed to the top of the Tower of Pisa…
Here, a close-up of one of the engravings (in green contrast) in Peru that was scanned reveals a circular design with a hole in the center and lines radiating outward. A sprawling, stone monument decorated with swirls, circular patterns and…
Researchers prepare to launch the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, which picked up signals of impossible-seeming particles as it dangled from its balloon over Antarctica. Our best model of particle physics is bursting at the seams as it struggles…
Research has revealed that people who are good at lying are likely to possess three very specific characteristics – do you do these things? It’s no secret that some people have a talent for telling lies, while others are hopeless…
Our reporter describes the ongoing catastrophe of record bushfires on Australia’s wildlife. 3 p.m. (New Zealand time), January 5 This is the day of the tangerine sky. It is midsummer, mid-afternoon, and the sky above Auckland, New Zealand, has turned…
Tragic Cillian O’Driscoll died as a result of a viral infection, having been taken ill at Kinder Care creche in Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland Tragic Cillian O’Driscoll was taken ill at his creche in Cork, Ireland (Image: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision)…
The rich assemblage of grave goods indicates that the person buried here held a high status. Archaeologists have found the remains of an entire iron-wheeled war chariot in a newly discovered Iron Age tomb in central Italy, a new study…
Bacteria enter our homes, gyms and workspaces by hitching rides on our skin or blowing in through an open door. Once inside, these invader microbes might help indoor germs in the surrounding dust become resistant to antibiotics, a new study…
The rock shelter at Shum Laka in Cameroon. Surprisingly, the ancient people who lived at this rock shelter are not related to the people in the region today. During the Stone Age in what is now western Cameroon, four children…
A bright supernova flares across the sky in this illustration. In 2006, researchers detected one of the brightest supernova explosions ever — and they may finally be able to explain it. In September 2006, an exploding star 50 billion times…