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Switching off can be surprisingly expensive. Much like the smoking cessation boom of the 1990s, the digital detox business – spanning hardware, apps, telecoms, workplace wellness providers, digital “wellbeing suites” and tourism – is now…

Astronomers have found a compact new cluster of objects inside the Kuiper belt, which is a distant band of icy bodies at the edge of our solar system beyond Neptune. The cluster sits 4.0 billion miles from the Sun, about 43 astronomical units.

The…

Scientists in Sweden recovered RNA from an extinct, 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, also known as a thylacine. They then traced which genes were active in its tissues. 

DNA can show what genes exist, but gene expression, which genes are active in a…

If all goes according to NASA’s plans, 2026 will finally be the year that astronauts once again launch to the moon.

In a matter of months, four astronauts are poised to fly around the moon on a roughly 10-day mission — the closest humans will…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.

The holiday season is often painted as an idyllic vision of rest, conjuring images of warm beverages and bountiful time…

Two dinosaur eggs, each about five inches (13 centimeters) across and almost perfectly round, have surprised scientists in eastern China. Instead of fragile shells packed with embryonic bone, the fossil eggs were hollow cavities stuffed with…

Every so often, astronomers will witness an incredible and mysterious phenomenon – startlingly bright, electric blue flashes in the night sky that blaze for days and then fade away, leaving behind a whisper of X-rays and radio waves. 

With…

At 15 years old, Belgian researcher Laurent Simons earned a PhD in quantum physics from the University of Antwerp. He says the degree is a means to a larger goal: building longer, healthier lives by enhancing human biology.

Simons research…

About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The study focuses on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast body of land ice in East Antarctica.

Altogether, Antarctica’s…