Will we finally be able to answer one of astronomy’s hardest questions: what is most of the matter in the universe made of?

Imagine peering into the night sky with a powerful telescope and seeing galaxies scattered across the cosmic landscape. Some are so distant that their light has been travelling for over 13 billion ...

For millennia, human beings stared up at the night sky and were held in awe by the Moon. To many ancient cultures, it represented a deity, and its cycles were accorded divine significance. By the time ...

Dementia is an umbrella term for a neurodegenerative condition, with cognitive problems (problems related to thinking) that usually start off mild but decline further over time. To get diagnosed with ...

NASA's InSight spacecraft has given us a peek into Mars like never before! Before it wrapped up its mission last December, it sent back some fascinating data, now published in the peer-reviewed ...

Scientists at the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University are developing a light-based communication system to interact with plants. Using a new optogenetics tool called Highlighter, they aim to ...

Sleep researchers agree that a good night's sleep is essential for a healthy brain. Although we generally sleep long enough, unfortunately, we are not good sleepers. Research by the Dutch Brain ...

Have you ever wondered how changing the way we draw the world—using different map projections or even flipping the globe upside-down—can expose hidden biases, challenge traditional views, and reshape ...

Generating electricity outside cities and transporting it into the city comes with a lot of power loss. Ideally, as much of it as possible should be generated locally. Scientists have found a way to ...

Many of you may remember the interstellar object ʻOumuamua (Hawaiian for 'messenger') that visited our solar system in 2017. The object was unlike anything we had seen before, as it was the first ...

Jupiter has 79 known moons, the four largest of which are known as the 'Galilean moons'. These four worlds are among the most fascinating in our entire solar system. In this article, we will attempt ...

The human brain, our most complicated organ, has gone through several growth spurts throughout the eons. But about 3000 years ago, something remarkable happened. Instead of the typical continued ...