Halo 18 is an example of a galaxy that had a head-on collision (see the panel at z=1.2) and had a disc flip (you can see this by comparing the disc orientation at z=1.4 and z=0). This image and Image ...

An artist impression of a red dwarf with a white dwarf binary companion peeking out from behind. The diameters of the two stars are shown to scale. Credit: Mark A. Garlick/University of Warwick But ...

In the mudstones of St Bathans, Central Otago, scientists have uncovered a fossil goose that adds a surprising twist to the evolutionary story of New Zealand’s birds. The deposits, dating to the early ...

Artificial sweeteners have long been marketed as harmless substitutes for sugar, but new evidence suggests they may not be as physiologically neutral as once believed. A sweeping review and ...

With the increased energy output, we would all wonder how long Earth can remain habitable now that the Sun is slowly getting more energetic. In the new study, conducted by using three-dimensional ...

This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was taken on 18 January 2026 with the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). It is a stack of several images spanning 14 minutes. As the comet ...

For nearly fifty years, scientists have known that malaria parasites slip into human red blood cells through a fleeting ring-shaped structure called the moving junction. The structure appears, does ...

Much of the semiconductor industry has operated for decades via Moore’s Law, the foreshadowing that transistor counts effectively double about every two years. Yet, as engineers moved toward the ...

Walk into any pharmacy aisle in America, and you’ll see rows of glossy bottles promising sharper memory and healthier brains. Fish oil supplements, abundant in omega‑3 fatty acids, the same nutrients ...

For more than ten years, a mysterious pink world has puzzled astronomers. Discovered in 2013, GJ504b, nicknamed the Pink Planet, orbits a Sun‑like star about 57 light‑years away. Despite its name, ...

A Martian meteorite has unveiled something extraordinary: a previously unknown rock type containing garnet, the first time this mineral has ever been identified on Mars. This discovery is more than a ...

Physicists have been trying to use quantum mechanics for decades to build computers that could solve problems currently out of reach of classical machines. Options are many, including superconducting ...