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...

NASA’s experimental X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for 1st time in step toward ‘quiet supersonic’ technology

NASA's X-59, an experimental supersonic aircraft developed in partnership with Lockheed Martin, has broken the sound barrier for the first time. The test represents...

‘Just defies belief’: 5 million-year-old whale graveyard stretches for 750 miles in the Indian Ocean

Scientists have discovered a vast whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean, with some fossil bones dating back over 5...

AI could consume up 3% of world’s electricity the UN warns

One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centers is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will...

New Velociraptor cousin was a ‘4-winged’ dragon that hunted prey from the trees of ancient China, fossil find hints

A newly discovered feathered dinosaur with four wing-like limbs may have prowled the lakeside forests of what is now northwestern China, gliding between trees...

‘He is so very expressive’: Viking Age game piece from Harald Bluetooth’s time may depict a mustached Viking king

The 1,000-year-old "king" piece from a Viking board game is one of the few depictions of a ruler from the Viking era, according to...

NASA confirms fireball meteor exploded over northeastern US with force of 230 tons of TNT

NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of...