For many people, total solar eclipses are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So if you are, or you are going to be, on the ...
The most powerful current on Earth is speeding up, and there’s a common feature to the last few times that it's happened.
At a third of the speed of light this jet is much slower than those from black holes, but could open the door to answering ...
An inability to visualize scary images means those with aphantasia may not react as strongly to spooky stories. It may also ...
The team that gave us the first-ever image of a black hole has released a new image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, this time seen in polarised light for ...
That tree is Methuselah, a bristlecone pine that’s quite aptly nicknamed after the biblical figure who was said to have lived ...
The idea that consciousness arises from the physical world is known as physicalism, although we remain uncertain as to what ...
It’s thought that people in ancient times began eating ashure as a way of commemorating the ark’s landing, and this has ...
Ocean currents move quantities of water that make the world’s largest rivers seem small by comparison. In the process, they ...
Orbital Reef is only one of the commercial space stations NASA is supporting – some of them through funded agreements, others ...
Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, ...
The small increase in mistrust in scientific expertise and science itself since 2016 has been offset by a greater rise in ...