A university team ‘immediately thought that it might be something new’ when they saw the giant insect

It was clear forecasters on ITN and BBC late news used different computer models as tracks of storms differed by 50 miles

Isotopes can be detected at airports and borders even in large containers and are harmless to the animals

‘We’re already being exposed to it daily.’

“Who knows what else we might discover?”

Panic over declining honeybee numbers is making headlines, but our love for the humble bee might be keeping us from seeing the bigger picture

James Webb Space Telescope image of the dying star NGC 6072, a beautiful planetary nebula shedding its layers into space.

Despite recording one of the strongest earthquakes in a century, the Pacific escaped major damage.

The event released 23.8 billion gallons (90 million cubic meters) of meltwater over the course of 10 days.

Before better teeth, there were tougher snacks.

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes

New imaging technology has allowed scientists to decipher the tattoos of an Iron Age mummy—and study them like never before.

The tomb-dwelling fungus sparked rumours of a ‘pharaoh’s curse’ that has endured for decades. Now it might be used to fight cancer

“These single atoms are like the smallest slits you could possibly build.”

A new technology known as Geochemical Energy Storage (GES) could provide months-long storage for renewable energy, increasing grid reliability.

Parents of boy born in Ohio, US, used ‘adopted’ IVF embryo that had been stored away for more than 30 years

Employees at the site in South Carolina where the US used to construct nuclear weapons have discovered a radioactive wasp nest.

The final frontier just got a little bit more quantum.

The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations.

SpaceX will try again on Friday (Aug. 1) at 11:43 a.m. ET.

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn’t so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe’s tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable

Strange shapes of spaghetti and other pasta types thread their way around neutron stars. These strange formations are known as nuclear pasta.

Study suggests the underwater valleys have a major impact on ice loss and ocean circulation

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

The vertebra from Spain’s Gran Dolina cave may show that an ancient human relative cannibalized its own kind, though not all scientists agree.

At a conservative estimate, it contains three times the amount of water of all the oceans on our surface. A new study may have found the source.

The previous record was set just three years ago by a pair of twins

The woman, aged about 50, was buried in a Siberian ice cave and discovered millennia later.

The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

Archaeologists in race to study HMS Northumberland as shifting sands expose part of well-preserved wreck

Lightning, which can heat the atmosphere to five times the temperature of the surface of the sun, is the result of a powerful chain reaction

The X-37B will launch into orbit on August 21.

The tsunami warning triggered evacuations in the US and Japan.

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests we could use NASA’s existing Juno spacecraft to intercept the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Looking for life beyond Earth changes the way we perceive life right here at home.

Newly appointed expedition botanist Matthew Jeffery feels ‘daunted’ but inspired by his unique globetrotting role collecting wild species

When sun-like stars reach the end of their lives, they blossom into beautiful planetary nebulas.

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

“The huge success of Artemis 1 is actually something we need to think about as a risk or even a threat to Artemis 2.”

The feathers can emit two frequencies of laser light from multiple regions across their colored eyespots.

Roman concrete produces as much, if not more, CO2 as modern concrete, fewer air pollutants.

We’ve finally mapped all of Zealandia.

Water usually flows downward, but something strange happened under Greenland’s ice sheet when a deluge punched through the surface to scour an area nearly twice the size of New York’s Central Park

Recent studies show that chronic heat exposure accelerates biological aging, but experts say there are ways to stay protected.

Hypothetical Dyson swarms could end up self-destructing into dust if abandoned.

Scientists have successfully extracted the world’s oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the fourth drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project, funded by the EU, the team members drilled 2800 metres into the ice until they hit bedrock below, before returning the sample. Over the next few years, …

Hexagonal diamond up to 60 per cent stronger than normal diamonds could be used to create super-tough drilling and cutting tools for industrial applications

Pulaosaurus qinglong is only the second non-avian dinosaur to be discovered with a preserved bony voice box

“They could be a resource in the future if humanity tried to access them.”

Satellites don’t stop at borders and neither should science.