Scientists have long been intrigued by why people tend to naturally favour the use of one hand over the other. We still don't fully understand what causes people to be left or right handed, but for decades researchers have assumed that the origin l

One Laysan albatross is brazenly defying the norms for her species. Wisdom, the world's oldest known wild bird, has returned to home port and laid an egg - at the magnificent age of 67 years old. It's a feat that gets more impressive every year she does it…

When exposed to weightless conditions, astronauts can really pick up a temperature, new research reveals. This kind of 'space fever' comes on even when the body is at rest, and this strange finding is giving us more insight into how human beings co

Your gut microflora isn't just sitting silently waiting for you to wolf down your next meal – it turns out there's a constant conversation going on between these bacteria and your body's genetic code.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of our Universe's most confounding mysteries - but astronomers may have just figured out the incredible environment where one of the most famous and well-studied FRBs is coming from.

We're not going to fly through a nebula, not in the lifetimes of anyone alive today. Possibly not ever in anyone's lifetime.

She was flying home from a holiday in Samoa when she saw it through the airplane window: a "peculiar large mass" floating on the ocean, hundreds of kilometres off the north coast of New Zealand.

A study using epilepsy patients undergoing surgery has given neuroscientists an opportunity to track in unprecedented detail the movement of a thought through the human brain, all the way from inspiration to response. The findings confirm the role of the…

If you were awestruck by the New Year's Day super moon, hold onto your pants. On January 31, around midnight, the full moon will not only be super, it will be a blue moon and a blood moon. The blue moon comes as it will be the second full moon in a month.…

In the early years of the 20th century a Russian scientist – now known as the father of astronautics and rocketry – wrote a fable exploring what life in space might be like in the future.

A skateboarding helmet with nonfunctional wires attached has nevertheless proven to have a powerful placebo effect - especially among people who describe themselves as spiritual.

For those working in the field of advanced artificial intelligence, getting a computer to simulate brain activity is a gargantuan task, but it may be easier to manage if the hardware is designed more like brain hardware to start with.

Holograms are pretty cool, sure. But they're still just two-dimensional projections that hover in the air, and as soon as you step to the side, the magic disappears, revealing how flat the thing really is.

For years, researchers have known that carbon, when arranged in a certain way, can be very strong. Case in point: graphene. Graphene, which was heretofore, the strongest material known to man, is made from an extremely thin sheet of carbon atoms arranged…

This year gets off to a relatively slow start when it comes to seeing the annual major meteor showers. The Quadrantids, one of the big three annual showers, are lost to the vagaries of the full Moon in early January. But the year's other two most active annual…

Shortly after NASA was established in 1958, the nation's top scientists compiled a list of missions they thought the brand-new space agency should pursue. The proposals were heady, considering at that point only three satellites had ever been launched. Researchers…

If you're one of the unlucky millions of people burdened by allergies, you know that sometimes there's only so much antihistamines can do to help. Researchers have been working to find more effective allergy treatments, and now they've discovered how a particular…

The Earth is overdue for a pole reversal, and the switch could have a devastating impact on our satellites, perhaps causing decades-long blackouts.