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Meg 2: the truth about the extinct mega shark – and why even this ridiculous film could inspire future palaeontologists
Otodus megalodon, the biggest shark of all time, has long captured the imaginations...
Antarctica is missing a chunk of sea ice bigger than Greenland – what’s going on?
Deadly heatwaves, raging wildfires and record global temperatures are upon us. But...
Voyager 2 has lost track of Earth. Only one antenna in the world can help it ‘phone home’
In 1977, five years before ET asked to “phone home”, two robotic spacecraft began...
How your genes may determine whether you can be an endurance athlete
For some of us, no matter how consistently we train, running never seems to get...
How swarming animals can help humans and AI make better decisions
The word swarm often carries negative connotations – think biblical plagues of locusts...
X marks the unknown in algebra – but X’s origins are a math mystery
Even though x is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears...
How does ice cream work? A chemist explains why you can’t just freeze cream and expect results
Ice cream seems like a simple concept. Take some dairy, add some sugar and flavours,...
Viral room-temperature superconductor claims spark excitement – and skepticism
Last week, a group of South Korean physicists made a startling claim. In two papers...
What happens if someone dies in space?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d...
Meet the gigantic extinct reptile that weighed as much as an adult black rhino
Around 262 million years ago, during the middle Permian Period, a new family of...
The Atlantic is at risk of circulation collapse – it would mean even greater climate chaos across Europe
Amid news of lethal heatwaves across the Northern Hemisphere comes the daunting...
China successfully sends liquid oxygen-methane carrier rocket into planned orbit
China on July 12 successfully launched a new carrier rocket into space from the...
China's FAST telescope finds key evidence for existence of nanohertz gravitational waves
China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) recently found...
Your genetic code has lots of ‘words’ for the same thing – information theory may help explain the redundancies
Nearly all life, from bacteria to humans, uses the same genetic code. This code...
A mysterious interstellar radio signal has been blinking on and off every 22 minutes for over 30 years
Last year, we made an intriguing discovery – a radio signal in space that switched...
65 years of NASA – an astrophysicist reflects on the agency’s legacy
Sixty-five years ago, in 1958, several government programs that had been pursuing...