New Material Gets Tougher When You Hit It

Electronic wearables and sensors could one day be made from a material that toughens up as it gets hit or stretched, thanks to new research carried out by a team from the University of California, U.S

Mysterious Stars at The Heart of The Milky Way Hide a Dark Secret

A study of the stars crashing around in the Milky Way's galactic center suggests that they are much, much older than they appear – and that their youthful good looks are the result of cosmic cannibalism.

Climate Change Threatens Antarctic Meteorites

For every tenth of a degree of increase in global air temperature, an average of nearly 9,000 meteorites disappear from the surface of the ice sheet.

Clash of stars solves stellar mystery

Star pairs are typically very similar, but in HD 148937, one star appears younger and is magnetic. New data from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) suggest there were originally three stars in the system, until two of them clashed and merged.

Incredibly Rare Cosmic Object Detected in Gravitational Waves For The First Time

A gravitational wave detected in May of last year has given us a type of cosmic collision we've never seen before.

NASA Is Set to Launch Its Next-Gen Solar Sail Into Deep Space

NASA is about to launch a new solar sail design with a better support structure. Called the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3).

Unprecedented behaviour from nearby magnetar

Researchers using CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field.

March is tenth straight month to be hottest on record

Europe's climate monitor said Tuesday that March was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high.

A New Measurement of Expanding Space-Time

The thick once again plottens in the quest to narrow down the expansion rate of the Universe.

The Moon Turned Itself Inside Out, Scientists Confirm

Scientists seem to have figured out why the Moon is made up of such weird and heavy rocks - way back in the day, it turned itself inside out.

AI Could Explain Why We're Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes

The Great Filter is a hypothesized event or situation that prevents intelligent life from becoming interplanetary and interstellar and even leads to its demise. Artificial Super Intelligence could be the Great Filter. 

How fasting makes the brain and gut work together

The intermittent energy restriction (IER) diet changes the human brain-gut-microbiome axis. There are highly dynamic changes in the gut microbiome and in the activity in addition-related brain regions during and after the diet.

Desperate Nations May Unilaterally Begin Hacking The Global Climate

A single country or coalition of countries witnessing the harms of climate change could make a cost and geopolitical calculation and decide to begin climate engineering on its own.

It could well be a blockbuster hurricane season, and that's not a good thing

The Atlantic hurricane season does not begin for another eight weeks, but we are deep in the heart of hurricane season prediction season.

Comet Pons-Brooks, the eclipse-day comet, appears to be in outburst

Comet Pons-Brooks visits the inner solar system every 71 years. Its next perihelion (when it’s closest to the sun) will be on April 21, 2024.