“Under federal law, the FAA is prohibited from issuing regulations for commercial human spaceflight occupant safety," the ...

For decades, most who asked have accepted a simple story for how these prized objects form, but the truth may be much more ...

The landslide itself is probably caused by climate change, Svennevig and co-authors believe. The extreme temperature swings between Greenland’s summer and winter mean that avalanches have always been ...

With a total of 19 humans, it beats the previous record for the most amount of humans in Earth’s orbit at one time. That ...

A single dose of the psychedelic drug LSD appears to alter the brain activity of dogs with autism-like traits during social ...

In the newest breakthrough in prosthetic technology, researchers in Italy have unveiled a robotic hand that is magnetically controlled. There are no wires or electrical cables to be seen here – ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology. The humans belonged to a group known ...

The idea that the universe is expanding was first proposed by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s and has been repeatedly backed up by empirical observations over the past century. Despite this, an ...

Recreating the cold, low-pressure conditions of Mars is not easy, requiring the team to use a liquid-nitrogen-cooled test chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) known as the Dirty ...

D eep in the ocean lives an unusual isopod that’s known to swim upside-down while going backwards with the help of peculiar paddle-like legs as long as your fingers. Scientists recently captured ...

L eonardo Da Vinci was pretty much the definition of a Renaissance man, and not just by virtue of being a man who lived during the Renaissance. He was an artist, a scientist, a musician; a dick pic ...

I n 2023, a first-of-its-kind clinical trial used a brain implant and artificial intelligence ( AI) to return movement and sensation to a man with quadriplegia. Now, a year on, it's been announced ...