JWST celebrates first year of science with awesome star-forming image
After a year of producing incredible imagery, the James Webb Space Telescope team has released a picture of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, Earth’s cl
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Why is Twitter becoming X and should you move to Threads or Bluesky?
Elon Musk is once more plunging Twitter into turmoil, this time by changing its very identity B
A curious history of famous body parts
Suzie Edge is a medical historian who frequently surprises (and sometimes shocks) her TikTok followers with health stories of famous people from the p
Pesticides in soya farming may be behind leukaemia deaths in Brazil
The replacement of cow pastures with soya plantations in parts of Brazil has corresponded with an increase in leukaemia deaths among children, possibl
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launch delayed due to rocket fault
Two astronauts will have to wait to set off for the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule, following a problem with the Atlas
Astronomers baffled by bizarre ‘zombie star’ that shouldn’t exist
A newly discovered neutron star is behaving so strangely that it may alter our understanding of the dense remains left behind when stellar objects die
Prehistoric Spanish people transported 2-tonne stone by boat
An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the monument’s builders must have had
Earth’s carbon sinks are being eroded by climate change feedback loops
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have risen an extra 15 parts per million since 1960 due to the declining ability of the land and sea to soak u
Ancient pots found near Pompeii contain 2500-year-old honey
A mysterious residue inside a set of ancient Greek pots from Paestum, Italy, has now been identified as honey thanks to modern chemical analysis
There might be a ‘Planet Y’ hiding in the outer solar system
Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet X, that might be warping
Humans were kissing at least 4500 years ago, reveal ancient texts
Many sources claim sexual kissing spread worldwide from South Asia 3500 years ago, but there is evidence it was practised in ancient Mesopotamia and E