Category: 9. Sci/Tech

There may not yet be telescopes capable of unlocking all the secrets of supermassive black holes, but AI is now on the case. Recently, an international team of astronomers successfully trained a neural network with millions of black hole…

Scientists have demonstrated after decades of theorising how light interacts with vacuum,…

Humpback whales have been documented for the first time creating large bubble rings in water…

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 10th-century Viking woman in Norway who was…

An asteroid that burst onto the scene with an unusually high risk of striking Earth has just had its collision risk upgraded.

In February 2025, asteroid 2024 YR4’s maximum collision risk with our homeworld when it swoops back around in 2032…

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by physicists and mathematicians, the theory…

It’s not something people often talk about at the dinner table, but your gut health plays a huge role in your overall wellbeing. And one of the most common conditions affecting the large intestine is diverticular disease.

Diverticular disease…

You may hear references to playing the world’s smallest violin when someone is being overly whiny or wallowing in self-pity, and now scientists have turned the joke into an actual microscopic object.

Physicists at Loughborough University in…

Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica have shrunk by almost a quarter as global warming transforms their icy habitat, according to new research on Tuesday that warned the losses were far worse than previously imagined.

Scientists…

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for thousands of years.

Found in my home state of…