A team of research physicists at Princeton University may have found a new way to control fusion reactions inside doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors — an incremental step towards making fusion energy, the 'holy grail of energy production', a r

Diagram of a proposed network of solar-sailing "statite" craft, which would look for interstellar objects zooming through the solar system and potentially allow up-close study of such visitors. (Image: © Diagram of a proposed network of solar-sailing "statite"…

Businesses from Milan in Italy to Roswell in Georgia have begun opening up after weeks and months of coronavirus-induced shutterings.

In November 2019, before the world had even heard of the novel coronavirus, 14 children on the Pacific island nation of Samoa were hooked up to ventilators. They were each fighting for their lives against a different, but also highly infectious vir

A class of stars that jangled out discordant frequencies across the galaxy have just been untangled. Using data collected by NASA's TESS space telescope, astronomers have finally found a rhythm in the pulsations of strange, young stars.

A team of scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has developed a brain implant that allows both blind and sighted participants "see" the shape of letters.

Our planet wears its magnetic field like an oversized coat that just won't sit comfortably. All that sliding means the north magnetic pole is destined to move ever closer to Siberia's coastline over the coming decade.

Quantum entanglement – that strange but potentially hugely useful quantum phenomenon where two particles are inextricably linked across space and time – could play a major role in future radar technology.

Neutrinos are mysterious and elusive particles. They have a tiny mass, no electric charge, and they interact with other matter only rarely. They are also extremely common.

Waking up and not being able to smell the coffee could be a sign of COVID-19. The World Health Organization recently announced that a sudden loss of sense of smell (anosmia) should be added to the symptoms of COVID-19.

Because we are normal people living in normal times, normal things are happening. Like news tabloids reporting that the Sun is in "lockdown", and that Earth is doomed to crazy weather famine and… earthquakes, for some reason.