Science

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has delivered one of the most detailed views ever captured of our galaxy’s crowded heart, revealing more than 60 million stars in a single extraordinary image. The observation offers astronomers an unprecedented look into the densely populated central regions of the Milky Way, a part of the galaxy … Read more

Interest in returning astronauts to the Moon has changed considerably over the past few years. What was once centred on individual landings is gradually becoming a much broader effort to establish a lasting human presence beyond Earth. NASA’s latest announcement reflects that shift. Instead of focusing only on the next mission, the agency is preparing … Read more

Niels Bohr, one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century, is remembered not only for his groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory but also for his insightful observations about learning and expertise. Among his most quoted remarks is: “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in … Read more

Thomas A. Edison (Image: Wikipedia) Most people know Thomas Edison as the inventor of the light bulb and the phonograph, not as a thinker about health. Yet more than a hundred years ago, he made a prediction about medicine that still sounds strikingly modern. The doctor of the future, he said, would give no medication, … Read more

Deep in the rainforests of far north Queensland, Australia, scientists have discovered a tiny spider with an extraordinary hunting strategy. Nicknamed the “ballista spider”, the newly described species uses a silk-powered trap that launches prey into its web with accelerations reaching up to 140 times the force of gravity. Researchers say the spider specifically targets … Read more

A vast stretch of the Pacific Ocean has begun showing signs of a powerful shift beneath its surface, with satellite observations revealing a growing bulge of unusually warm water spreading across the equatorial region. From space, the change appears as an enormous band of elevated sea levels extending from the central Pacific towards the coast … Read more

The Sun would rise in the west on Venus, but that is only the beginning of how strange a day there would feel. A day is usually one of the simplest measurements we have. The Sun comes up, crosses the sky and disappears below the horizon. We mark the passing hours almost without thinking about … Read more

A few years ago, the idea of reviving extinct animals sat closer to speculative science fiction than anything investors would normally put money behind. Yet it has steadily been pulled into boardrooms, laboratories, and funding rounds at a scale that now feels difficult to ignore. At the centre of it is Colossal Biosciences, a company … Read more

For decades, forests have occupied a central place in discussions about climate change. Trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, convert it into organic matter and store part of that carbon in their trunks, branches and roots. The process seems straightforward enough. More photosynthesis should mean more growth, and more growth should mean more carbon … Read more

A Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus in 1972 finally completed its journey more than half a century later, though not in the way its builders intended. Kosmos 482, part of the Soviet Union’s ambitious Venera programme, was supposed to explore the Solar System’s hottest planet. Instead, a rocket malfunction left the spacecraft trapped … Read more