The fast-moving wildfires are burning long after the regular fire season is over due to an unlikely sequence of extreme ...

SpaceX’s most ambitious Starship flight yet will see reused hardware, the deployment of 10 fake satellites and another ...

This beautiful image shows Saturn re-emerging from behind our moon after a lunar occultation on 4 January. These occur when ...

Our readers dig into what makes someone – or thing – a redhead, and speculate as to what might make red fur useful ...

Fossil footprints uncovered at a quarry were left by huge herbivores and carnivores that walked Earth around 166 million ...

Sticks found in a cave that date back 12,000 years and other archaeological evidence show how humans have long viewed the ...

We need to stop ignoring young people's firsthand experience with artificial intelligence. They are already at the sharp end ...

In Land of Marble, photographer Alessandro Gandolfi explores the past and future of Italy's striking marble quarries ...

Our readers have a lot of fun getting to grips with this one, working out how such an Earth would look – and what its ...

A fascinating exhibition at Oxford’s Bodleian Library explores archaic ways of telling the future. It is tiny, but explores ...

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