On April 12, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space and the first one to orbit the Earth. Weeks later ...

This week, the US ran a solar storm emergency drill and it turns out we’re woefully unprepared, a fluorescent Archaeopteryx ...

The exact number of times this occurs depends on the country's main electricity but generally ranges between 50 and 60 Hz.

The truth eventually came out, however. In 2004, DuPont was fined $16.45 million by the EPA – the largest civil penalty under ...

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There should be rocks showing both impact shock and high magnetism located near the lunar South Pole on the far side of the ...

Our data confirmed that material from the core, including gold and other precious metals, is leaking into the Earth’s mantle above.” It’s the strongest evidence yet that the Earth’s core is leaking ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the ...

Titan too has a tilt, but it's very small compared to its orbit around Saturn, just 0.3 degrees. Saturn, on the other hand, ...

For one thing, our bodies don’t just sense the world around us, we also experience the world inside ourselves. This includes sensing and awareness of things like our hunger, thirst, heartbeats, our ...

D uring the late 1960s, a renowned British scholar undid his whole career by backing a pretty wild claim: According to John ...

D enisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is the only spot on the planet that’s known to have been lived in by Denisovans, ...