The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...

In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...

Concept illustration of a laser-driven lightsail. This is an artist's concept, not a spacecraft that has reached relativistic speed. Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives. Source and project information. A ...

Every animal that can hear does it more or less the same way. Something inside the body, an eardrum, a stretched membrane, a cluster of tiny hair cells, catches a shift in air pressure and turns it ...

A living root bridge starts out looking like something somebody forgot to pull up. A single pale root, no thicker than a shoelace, gets threaded by hand through a hollowed-out betel nut trunk laid ...

The question came from a woman I’d never spoken to before, both of us standing on our pedals mid-class in a dark spin studio that smelled like clove deodorant and someone else’s protein shake. I was ...

Artist's impression of supersonic jet winds circling the equator of WASP-127b. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada. Source. Astronomers have measured atmospheric motion around the equator of WASP-127b at close to ...

Somebody, at some point, took a tape measure to the teller windows at HSBC’s branches in Mexico. The Justice Department’s own announcement lays out the timeline. From 2006 to 2010, HSBC Bank USA ...

Here’s a number that surprised me more than it probably should have. Among single Americans age 40 and older, 71 percent of women say they aren’t looking to date right now, compared with 42 percent of ...

Representative staged image of an astronaut in a desert landscape on Earth. It does not depict Mars, a mission design or a member of any future crew. Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels. Human ...

Illustration of Titan. Photo by Zelch Csaba via Pexels. I wrote last week about the strange fact that Titan is the one place beyond Earth where a person could stand outside without a pressure suit, ...

Commercial airliners are designed to conduct lightning current across their exterior. Representative photo by Puneet Singh Rawat via Pexels. A modern airliner can become part of a lightning channel, ...