The discovery of a monster fatberg, lurking in the depths of Sidmouth, has hit global headlines.
Experts have blamed East Devon residents for a colossal build up of unflushable waste which has congealed into a 'fatberg.'
And water provider South West Water itself has also told locals to 'stop feeding the...
Paleontologists have identified a giant wombat-like marsupial that lived 25 million years ago (Oligocene epoch) in what is now Australia. Named Mukupirna nambensis, the prehistoric creature was at least five times larger than living wombats and so different that the researchers have had to create a new family to...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday lifted a 2014 temporary ban on funding research involving the flu and other pathogens in which scientists deliberately make them more transmissible or more deadly. The ban covered federal funding for any new so-called “gain-of-function” experiments that enhance pathogens such...
Turn your summer staycation into a cosmic holiday with a visit to one of the universe’s many exoplanets.
NASA has given UFO hunters, space boffins and astronomy enthusiasts an unprecedented opportunity to set foot on alien worlds and planets discovered by the incredible Kepler Space Telescope, with the aid of...
PARIS (Reuters) - ArianeGroup, the space-launchers joint-venture between Airbus and Safran, has passed an industrial milestone allowing it to move ahead with production of the first Ariane 6, Europe’s next-generation rocket, the company said on Monday. The first flight of the replacement for the Ariane 5 government and...
A new study describes how the mission became the first to make a fifth state of matter in Earth orbit, and the advantages of studying atoms in space.
This month marks 25 years since scientists first produced a fifth state of matter, which has extraordinary properties totally unlike solids, liquids,...
An astrophysicist at the University of Bologna and a neurosurgeon at the University of Verona compared the network of neuronal cells in the human brain with the cosmic network of galaxies... and surprising similarities emerged
In their paper published in Frontiers in Physics, Franco Vazza (astrophysicist at the University of...
According to a sophisticated new model, the Moon is far younger than scientists previously thought — to the tune of some 85 million years.
The moon formed a little later than previously assumed. When a Mars-sized protoplanet was destroyed in a collision with the young Earth, a new body was...
Irishman's €60 antique bought on holidays in Morocco turns out to be Ice Age relic worth €30,000.
In an antique shop that sold mostly “Islamic and Roman items, a high, carved figurine “that looked Chinese” caught his eyes.
The antique originally cost €70. However, the Irishman was able to bargain with...
A northern Ontario photography enthusiast captured two celestial events, aurora borealis and Comet NEOWISE, in one breathtaking time-lapse video.
Christina Emond has been capturing nature and wildlife in northeastern Ontario for more than four years as a hobby.
This week, she set up her Canon Rebel T7 camera with an 18...
