Mercury’s magnetic field nearly 4 billion years old
Mercury’s magnetic field is between 3.7 and 3.9 billion years old, according to new data from the spacecraft that orbited the Sun’s nearest planet...
Colossal gas halo surrounding Andromeda galaxy discovered
A massive halo of gas has been found surrounding the Andromeda Galaxy, which is next door to our Milky Way, scientists from the Universities...
Antarctic ozone hole getting smaller but C02 levels reach new record high
This week has seen some encouraging news regarding the size of the ozone hole over Antarctica, which appears to be shrinking. However, the amount...
Meet Dextrous Blue – the robot that sorts and folds clothes
Dextrous Blue is an 8-foot tall robot designed to do one of the most mundane household chores – sorting and folding clothes. Its creators, from...
Beautiful Gentoo penguin chicks hatched in Edinburgh Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo announced the arrival of the season’s first penguin chicks – two Gentoo penguins - that hatched this week, one in the early...
Scottish flower shows origin of species is a repeatable phenomenon
A new species can start at one place and also another and evolve separately, says a scientist from the University of Stirling in Scotland...
Rorqual whales have nerves like bungee cords that stretch and recoil
Rorqual Whales have an amazing nerve structure in their mouths and tongues that can stretch out to double their length and recoil like a...
Giant exoplanet orbiting small star challenges ideas about planet formation
Researchers have discovered a huge exoplanet, about the size of Jupiter (317.8 Earth mass), orbiting super-close to a small cool star approximately 500 light...
Warp Drive may turn from science fiction to fact, says NASA
NASA believes it might eventually achieve Warp Drive, transforming a science fiction idea into fact. Warp Drive is a hypothetical FTL (faster-than-light) propulsion system,...
World’s Largest Radio Telescope to be headquartered at Jodrell Bank in England
The world’s largest radio telescope is to be headquartered at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank site in England, members of the Square Kilometre...