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Cosmologists have known for decades that only a sliver of the universe is made of the same stuff as people, planets, and pets. Analyses of the cosmic microwave background by the Planck satellite pinned ordinary matter to just under five percent…

People were stunned when a video emerged of an orca (Orcinus orca) swimming backwards in Howe Sound, Canada.  

There’s a rather gruesome reason that transient killer whales – which hunt marine mammals – might ‘moonwalk’ like this,…

Earth might be about to spin out its fastest day on record. And no one knows why.

On July 9, 22, or August 5, our planet might complete the fastest spin on its axis ever recorded, breaking last…

A University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) scientist has proposed a “three-dimensional time” theory that replaces the traditional model of one dimension of time and three physical dimensions as the primary fabric of…

Mercury is definitely the troublemaker of our Solar System. The smallest planet orbiting our Sun is also one of the most perplexing, with characteristics so unusual that scientists are still scratching their heads about how it came to…

Deep beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have uncovered an extraordinary undersea world that may hold the key to understanding how life began on Earth. The discovery of the Lost City, a vast field of mineral towers, has…


It’s a day of firsts for incredible new scientific missions. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) new Biomass mission, launched into orbit just two…

Astronomers are investigating a little-known and largely unseen group of asteroids that quietly orbit the sun alongside Venus — and there may be many more of them than we thought.

“It’s like discovering a continent you didn’t know existed,”…

THE CONVENTIONAL way of making babies is no secret: a father produces a sperm which, when it comes into contact with a mother’s egg, gives rise to an embryo containing genetic material from both parents. The process is popular but not…