NASA's Parker Solar Probe has spent the past few years flying repeatedly through the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere where temperatures run to more than a…
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in March 2026 argues that the rate of global warming has risen sharply.
The air above Dublin contains, among other things, genetic traces of cannabis, poppy, and magic mushrooms.
Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and come back…
In June 2019, a team led by Mathew White of the University of Exeter's European Centre for Environment and Human Health put a number on something that had long been treated as common sense.
China produces about 99 per cent of the world's primary low-purity gallium, according to the United States Geological Survey, and on 3 December 2024 its…
In June 1959, the Auckland exporter Turners and Growers renamed the Chinese gooseberry "kiwifruit" to dodge US Cold War tariffs and the political toxicity of anything labelled Chinese. The fuzzy brown skin happened to resemble the plumage of New Zealand's flightless national bird, and the name stuck — globally, permanently, and across an entire industry.
EEG recordings detected auditory responses in some unresponsive hospice patients. The study could not determine whether those patients consciously understood voices around them.
In 2013, Jimo Borjigin's lab at the University of Michigan recorded a surge of hyper-coherent gamma waves in rat brains in the 30 seconds after cardiac arrest, a signal stronger than waking consciousness and potentially linked to near-death experiences.
The 420-foot Bulford Kiwi carved into a Wiltshire chalk hillside in 1919 by New Zealand soldiers is older than the fruit that shares its name — and was re-chalked in 2024 by an RAF Chinook helicopter.
Take a single sheet of ordinary paper, about a tenth of a millimetre thick. Fold it in half and it is twice as thick.
On 4 June 2026, a security researcher publishing under the name Buchodi released a technical analysis of Stella, the companion app for Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses.
Voyager 1, the first human-made object to cross into interstellar space, carries a gold-plated copper phonograph record holding music, spoken greetings, and the sounds of Earth.
In January 2026, a team of quantum chemists at the California Institute of Technology posted a preprint to arXiv titled "Classical solution of the FeMo-cofactor model to chemical accuracy and its implications.
The asteroid belt of the films is a wall of tumbling rock, the kind a pilot has to weave through at speed while boulders close in from every side.
In March 2026, China's National Medical Products Administration approved NEO, a brain-computer interface developed by Shanghai-based startup Neuracle…
