Lab-grown fat could give cultured meat real flavor and texture

Researchers have successfully bulk-produced fat tissue in the lab that has a similar texture and make-up to naturally occurring fats from animals.

Webb captures detailed infrared view of Uranus

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to wow astronomers and the public alike with its infrared view of deep space targets. Now its Uranus.

Second 'Giant Hole' Appears on Sun

  • 30 Mar 2023

A giant 'hole' has appeared on the surface of the Sun, and it could send 1.8 million-mph solar winds toward Earth by Friday.

Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI "digital minds"

More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts have joined a call for an immediate pause on the creation of “giant” AIs for at least six months, so the capabilities and dangers of systems such as GPT-4 can be properly studied and mitigated.

China Research Mission Finds New Source of Water on Moon

Scientists report they have discovered water in materials collected during a Chinese moon mission. The water is in extremely small glass beads that were found in the dirt where many meteorites have hit the moon. 

The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return

Releasing 1000 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere will cause the southern portion of the ice sheet to melt. If it melts entirely, global sea level would rise about 7 meters. We've emitted about 500 gigatons of carbon already.

Brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed

Scientists believe the gamma-ray emission, which lasted over 300 seconds, is the birth cry of a black hole, formed as the core of a massive and rapidly spinning star collapses under its own weight.

The Origins of Human Empathy May Go All The Way Back to The Ocean

A new study has provided evidence of the chemical mechanisms behind the spreading of fear among zebrafish, hinting that human empathy could have originated in our aquatic ancestors hundreds of millions of years ago.

Two moons of Uranus may have active oceans, new study finds

Scientists now believe Miranda and Ariel, the smallest and second-smallest of Uranus’s five major moons, could be expelling vapour plumes - which on other moons in the solar system are thought to come from subsurface oceans.

Scientists open door to manipulating 'quantum light'

International researchers have manipulated small numbers of bound photons, scattering off an artificial atom. This unprecedented achievement represents an important landmark in the development of quantum technologies.

Mysterious Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field is Deepening

The South Atlantic Anomaly is growing, according to data that appeared in a government report published earlier this year.

Neutrinos made by a particle collider detected

In a scientific first, a team led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine has detected neutrinos created by a particle collider.

Risk of Giant Asteroids Hitting Earth Could Be Worse

NASA's scientist, James Garvin, thinks we might have been misreading traces of some of the more serious asteroid strikes that have occurred within the past million years. If he's right, the odds of being hit by something nasty could be higher.

One of the biggest black holes ever found

A UK team of astronomers found an ultramassive black hole, an object over 30 billion times the mass of our Sun, in the foreground galaxy – a scale rarely seen by astronomers.

Millions of dead fish are washing up in Australia

The mass fish death is the latest illustration of how climate change is combining with mismanagement to blight Australia’s fragile environment.