What does the passage of time look like for a truly quantum object? The world’s best clocks may soon be able to answer this question, testing how time can stretch and shift in the quantum realm and ...

Controversial plans to ditch separate science GCSEs in Wales have been put back from 2026 to at least 2028 to allow for further consultation. Exam regulator Qualifications Wales said further ...

Getting rid of Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been a much talked about subject for years, with people mainly residing in two camps: Make DST permanent or get rid of it entirely. Now, a new study from ...

Not all rats are sewer or subway denizens skittering away with someone’s slice of pizza (and then going viral for it). In the remote mountain rainforests of Papua New Guinea, there is a creature that ...

Mark Thompson is known for his tireless enthusiasm for making science accessible, through numerous TV, radio, podcast theater appearances, and books. He was a part of the award-nominated BBC ...

The white pickup truck pulls up to a decommissioned space observatory on top of Mount Blue Sky, one of Colorado’s famous “14ers,” mountains that reach more than 14,000 feet high. The scene is stark on ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

In the long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill repute—a companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster. Though naturalists ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity is famous for predicting some really weird but true phenomena, like astronauts aging slower than people on Earth and solid objects changing their shapes at high ...

What skills do you use every day in your job? As a planetary scientist, I use mathematics, physics, geology and atmospheric science. But as the principal investigator of Juno, I also have to manage ...

Few shark species have ever been caught mating on camera. So when marine biologist Hugo Lassauce stumbled upon a trio of Indo-Pacific leopard sharks copulating in quick succession, he knew he had the ...

He added that "trial results come through in numbers and graphs, but behind each datapoint is an incredible patient who volunteered to undergo major neurosurgery to be treated with the first gene ...