By making a strange kind of particle that is its own antiparticle out of a time crystal, physicists aim to develop a quantum computer that's not only more reliable, but far more lightweight than anything currently in the pipeline. Time crystals and quasiparticles…

Steelhead trout, members of the salmon family that live and grow in the Pacific Ocean, genetically adapted to the freshwater environment of Lake Michigan in less than 120 years, according to new research.

China's Tiangong-2 space station just spent 10 days much closer to Earth than its usual orbit, a manoeuvre that seems to have baffled experts - and China's government isn't talking.

NASA's 15-year-old Opportunity rover has had a rough couple of weeks on Mars. Back on May 30, a pretty big dust storm was spotted on the Martian surface, and Opportunity was right in its path. Since then, it's only gotten bigger. On June 12, it had reached…

In 2014, Xiaomi announced the first-gen Mi Band. It was capable of providing some common features including the pedometer, alarm, and so on. It was priced at 79 yuan, which was an unheard pricing for a wearable. In 2016, the manufacturer came in with the…

It's no secret that our brains are exceptionally flexible and can adapt to new situations. Whether it's a brain reusing parts of itself for surprising purposes, or helping someone live normally with only 10 percent of the brain undamaged, we've got

One of the world's leading plasma research facilities just broke a new record, showing we really are getting closer to the wonderful goal of fusion power - a virtually limitless supply of clean energy.

The first known interstellar visitor to our Solar System, 'Oumuamua, which buzzed past the Sun last September, has proven evasive to define. First it was a comet. Then it was an asteroid. Then it was maybe both.

It seems inevitable. When we grow older, time seems to speed up as we experience the same things over and over again, and part of it's because even our favourite things in life have become, sadly, no longer new to us.

What would actually happen to your body if you stopped drinking water, including all beverages that contain water, like juices, soft drinks, and tea?

Underneath our feet, deep down in the Earth, liquid iron is producing the magnetic field that we all take for granted.

For the very first time, astronomers have captured an image of a baby planet as it carves a path through the disc of dust that surrounds its star, an orange dwarf 113.4 parsecs (370 light-years) away from Earth.

All the planets in the Solar System are more or less oriented the same as the Sun, with North and South pointed in the same direction. Not Uranus though. The blue planet's north-south axis is tilted 98 degrees from the Sun's orbital plane - it's pr

It turns out that our galaxy looks the way it does today thanks to a run-in with something called the 'Gaia Sausage'.

Sometimes, when it rains or when they feel the urge to migrate, spiders get out their little silk knapsacks, and balloon away. This ballooning behaviour is well understood by spider scientists, but researchers have recently discovered that electric fields…

Why do many problems in life seem to stubbornly stick around, no matter how hard people work to fix them?

Astronomers have found the brightest object ever discovered in the early Universe, 13 billion light-years away - a quasar from a time when our Universe was just seven percent of its current age.

Scientists have identified a key molecule exploited by HIV when the virus infects human cells, and the discovery could represent a major step forward in defeating the deadly disease.

Data recorded during Cassini's final months is still giving us gold. New research from the probe's Grand Finale mission has uncovered a previously unknown interaction between Saturn and its moon Enceladus - plasma waves, travelling between the two.

The discovery of some rather large dinosaur bones in Argentina has got scientists wondering whether the creatures may have grown to their biggest sizes earlier in history than we previously thought.

An Egyptian archaeological mission found an enormous sarcophagus - the largest ever to be found in Alexandria - made from a striking black marble.