Inside a Chinese cubic press, graphite is squeezed at 50,000 atmospheres and 1,500 degrees Celsius for two weeks, producing a one-carat diamond chemically identical to a mined stone — and collapsing a price the De Beers cartel had defended since 1888.
The twin earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela caused catastrophic damage to buildings in Caracas and across Yaracuy state for a reason that has little to…
The collaboratory has produced peer-reviewed work before. As Space Daily previously reported, the same network identified a giant double-ring radio galaxy halfway across the universe earlier this year, also through LoTSS.
The signal arrived at LIGO on January 14, 2025. Two laser beams running down 4-kilometer vacuum tubes in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana…
In 2025, astronomers reported one of the largest rotating structures ever found: a cosmic filament some 50 million light-years long, holding close to 300 galaxies, with many of them turning in step with the filament as a whole.
PSR J0125−5854 is a neutron star spinning roughly forty times per second, locked in an 833-day orbit with the burned-out core of a star whose outer envelope it long ago pulled away.
The bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus), washed up on British beaches after storms, has been measured at up to 55 metres long — longer than any blue whale — and secretes a neurotoxin, nemertide α-1, potent enough to paralyse crabs and kill cockroaches on contact.
The first dinosaur ever confirmed from Antarctica had been sitting in a drawer for forty years.
In 2025, astronomers found one of the closest molecular clouds to the Sun, and it had been sitting almost on our doorstep the whole time, unseen.
The proposition that another animal species besides humans uses personal names was, for essentially the entire history of comparative animal cognition research before the 1960s, considered a category error.
Americans in 1916 did not believe sharks attacked people. The dominant scientific consensus among the marine biologists of the American Museum of Natural…
The most successful film franchise in the recorded history of American cinema opened in fewer theaters than essentially every other summer release of its year — and Fox had to force theaters to show it.
The teddy bear that smuggled Katalin Karikó's life savings out of communist Hungary in 1985 still exists.
During US Spacewalk 95, flight engineers Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will spend about six and a half hours swapping out a joint that drew too much current and stopped moving on May 27.
Among musicians who improvise, there is a description of a certain quality of playing that comes up often enough to constitute its own category: moments when…
In 1946, Soichiro Honda had absolutely nothing left except the idea that powering a bicycle with a leftover army engine was going to work.
