Every morning, a gigantic cloud stretches across the Martian sky, reaching up to 1,800 kilometres before vanishing just hours ...

A forested mountain stream can be far from busy roads and still receive plastic pollution from the air. A study in western ...

Microplastics are everywhere—in our water, food, and even the air we breathe. A new scientific review highlights a growing concern: microplastics and nanoplastics are accumulating in human brain ...

A few of the deeper returning questions people engage with in conversations and discussions about cosmology relate to what happened before the big bang and what instigated the big bang in the first ...

Have you ever asked yourself why nearly all familiar planets have a round shape and not, say, the shape of a cylinder or a cube? Interesting fact: planets appear perfectly round to the eye, but in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester and The Australian National University have created a new molecule that may soon enable ultra-compact hard drives (the size of a postage stamp) by allowing ...

Have you ever wondered how animals adapt to urban life, with its traffic jams and busy streets? A fascinating observation by researcher Dr. Vladimir Dinets sheds light on how some birds might not only ...

Scientists at the Monash Energy Institute have developed a longer-lasting, lighter, and more ecologically responsible alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries. By employing a glucose-based ...

Among many innovative concepts exists the idea of solar power satellites - massive orbiting structures designed to harvest the sun's energy from space and transmit it to Earth in the form of microwave ...

Although it has been hundreds of years since its initial outbreak in the 1300s, many of us are familiar with the infectious disease known as the bubonic plague (or black death), the most deadly ...