New electron microscope SuperSTEM 3 is 100 times better than existing devices
A new, extremely powerful electron microscope that is 100 times better than any other device found at British universities can examine objects one million...
A red dwarf passed through our Solar System 70,000 years ago
A red dwarf passed through our Solar System just 70,000 years ago, researchers from Europe, US, South Africa and Chile reported. The old star...
Parental caring is lopsided in most animals due to evolution
Why is caring for young so lopsided among the sexes in most of the animal kingdom, including humans? According to British and German researchers,...
Interstellar movie visual effects technology discovers new black hole effects
New insights into the powerful effects of black holes have been provided by the technology used by the visual effects team involved in making...
Why emigrate to Mars and leave the comforts of Earth forever?
What motivates people to leave Earth, a planet they are genetically designed to live in, to settle down forever in the harsh environment of...
Australia should follow UK leaders’ climate change pledge, says Nobel Laureate
Australia’s political parties should follow the UK’s example by pledging to jointly combat climate change, says Professor Brian Schmidt, who was awarded the Nobel...
Limpet teeth are so strong they could be used for making airplanes, boats and...
Limpet teeth are probably the strongest natural material on Earth, and not spider silk, researchers from the University of Portsmouth reported in the Royal...
Wonderful Milky Way photos taken by Devon photographer
Lloyd W.A. Cosway, a British amateur photographer, took some spectacular photographs of the Milky Way over Dartmoor, an area of moorland in south Devon...
Mystifying giant plume above Mars leaves astronomers bewildered
Amateur astronomers across the world spotted a giant cloud-like plume more than 200 km (124 m) above the boundary of day and night (the...
Is a tiny ball filled with DNA an alien seed of life?
A British astrobiologist found a tiny metal globe full of biological material he and his colleagues believe could be an alien seed of life...