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“In this photo, I’m preparing drifting buoys for deployment. This was my main responsibility aboard the RV Falkor (too), during a 27-day research expedition in October 2025 exploring the Malvinas Current, an ocean current that runs alongside…

The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics Jason Socrates Bardi Basic (2025)

In the weeks leading up to September 1891, mathematician Georg Cantor prepared an ambush. For years he had sparred —…

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer’s disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest, with recent years witnessing several important controversies.

In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper,…

Scientists continue to push the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology, thanks to next-generation instruments that can see farther and clearer than ever before.

Through these efforts, astronomers have observed some of the earliest galaxies in the…

Dark, hungry and inescapable: black holes are often portrayed as the ultimate cosmic villains.

But now astronomers are preparing to capture a movie of a supermassive black hole in action for the first time, in observations that could help reveal…

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them, called phages, are locked in an evolutionary arms race. But that evolution follows a different trajectory when the battle takes place in microgravity, a study conducted aboard the International Space…

Nasa’s giant new moon rocket has moved to the launchpad in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century. The trip could blast off in February.

The 98-metre (322ft) rocket began its 1mph (1.6km/h) creep from…

The study, led by Martin Rahm and his team and published in ACS Central Science, reveals that frozen hydrogen cyanide (HCN) doesn’t just sit inert in the cold. It becomes a microscopic reaction engine, converting into more reactive forms and…