A hand-copied version of Fujiwara no Teika’s diary, Meigetsuki, from the Edo period. The page shown includes references to “red lights in the northern sky” on the right-hand side.

Reconstructed solar cycles based on carbon-14 records, relative to baseline activity level at y=0, overlaid with historical records: orange circles denote the timing of aurora sightings, blue and red ...

Until last week, Apollo 17 was the last time humans left low-earth orbit to visit the Moon. Several solar proton events occurred in the same year as Apollo 16 and 17; had these coincided, the ...

Southern California hybrid honeybee hive hanging from a tree in the wild.

Researchers inspecting honeybee colonies as part of long-term monitoring of Varroa mite infestations.

The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology ...

Scientists have found new genetic causes for diabetes in babies – in a part of the genome that has historically been overlooked in genetic studies. Until recently, most research has investigated ...

EANM has joined as co-organiser of the European Multidisciplinary Congress on Urological Cancers (EMUC26), bringing nuclear medicine expertise to Europe’s leading congress on urological ...

In what looks like a pile of rocks in Shark Bay, UNSW scientists have discovered a hidden clue to how the ancestors of plants ...

A new study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland highlights the challenges faced by older immigrants in Finland when seeking social and healthcare services, employment and citizenship.

Fans of Korean skincare may be familiar with ‘hero ingredient’ Madecassic acid for its skin-soothing properties, but researchers at the University of Kent have revealed its greater potential for use ...

A new study from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg offers a likely explanation for why ...