An international team is building a colossal magnet, a core component in the development of nuclear fusion energy.
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Who is entitled to call themselves an astronaut? Private space travel has boomed in recent years and has rekindled the debate over the use of this prestigious title.
Flares from an object called a magnetar can produce a planet's worth of heavy elements, such as gold and platinum.
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks on May 6. Associated with Halley's Comet, it promises dozens of shooting stars before dawn in dark skies.
A plume of incandescent rock, which erupted from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago, helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time, allowing land-dwelling animals, like the ancestors of elephants and others, to cross between the two continents.
Scientists know that cattle are a source of greenhouse gases through their belching and flatulence, particularly methane emissions. Various studies have attempted to reduce this significant source of methane.
A historic blackout left Spain, Portugal, and parts of France without power on Monday. While work continues to restore power, questions are growing: Was it a technical failure or a large-scale cyberattack?
In times of record climate change and ecosystems in crisis, Earth Day 2025 reminded us that the cure is in our hands.
New music has been launched on Spotify to raise money for conservation. Nature is an artist and should be compensated as one, artists say.
The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, in the heart of Rome, where Pope Francis will be buried, was built almost 1,600 years ago after a surprising meteorological phenomenon.
If you have an orchid at home and its leaves are wrinkled like raisins, the solution isn't expensive fertiliser or radical pruning. The best-kept secret of plant lovers is to take it to the bathroom.
Hidden at the back of a museum in London is the oldest museum cafe in the world. You can still visit today.