Science

James Webb telescope pinpoints the most distant ‘fast radio burst’ ever seen, more than 10 billion light-years away

Astronomers have detected the most distant burst of radio signals ever seen: an explosion that's emitting waves of energy from more than 10 billion light-years away.The event, named FRB...

THE GEARBOX: The Revolutionary Power Expander That Helped Move Mankind Forward

By Gracus Bloom | Industrial Technology News There is a wonderfully misleading phrase sometimes used to describe a gearbox:...

Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests

The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a...

Star Metal: When Ancient People Worked Metal From the Stars

By Gracus Bloom | Historical Science & Archaeology Long before modern metallurgy gave humanity steel mills, electric furnaces and...

To Blend or Not to Blend? Four Vegetables Worth Eating Whole

Health News | Nutrition, food preparation and what really happens inside your blender The blender debate: Are we missing...

‘We’re rapidly running out of time’: 7 of Earth’s 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns

Earth's life-support systems are in peril — and they're getting worse — but although the window for action is closing, we still have a...

‘Call it Genghis Khan’s final victory’: Why the tomb of the ‘Disturber of the Universe’ remains hidden after 800 years

History is rife with lost treasures, from Aztec gold hidden during the Spanish conquest to the Ark of the Covenant, which vanished during the...

How did Hurricane Polo get so powerful?

A Pacific cyclone dubbed Polo exploded from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours on Tuesday (Sept....

‘On our way to groundbreaking science’: Stars turn neon-green in first test image from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

(Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Tyler Desjardins (STScI))Quick factsWhat it is: Hundreds of stars, captured in the Nancy Grace Roman Space...

A space shark, ‘royal’ auroras and a ‘Venusian pearl’: See the winners of the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest

A picture of a distant, shark-shaped cloud of gas in space has earned the top prize in a Royal Observatory Greenwich contest for amateur...