- Good news for parents sick of imploring their child, with increasing desperation, to eat their greens — as experts have a life hack to make dinnertime less exasperating. They key is to smile, as children may eat twice as many vegetables if they first…
- NASA is just hours away from launching a spacecraft that will deliberately smash into an asteroid, in a first-of-its-kind mission to see if this defense could stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. Double Asteroid Redirection Test…
- NASA's first ever 'planetary defence' mission to deflect an asteroid 6.8 million miles from Earth is set to launch this week. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a box-shaped space probe, will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 22:20 PT…
- A powerful holographic camera has been developed by scientists, and it is able to see though almost anything, including corners, fog, and even human flesh. The device, built by researchers from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, uses a…
- Like all areas of society, the Royal Air Force can't escape the need to go green or to save money, and it hopes that virtual training can help it do just that. It costs tens of thousands of pounds every time the RAF sends a pilot up in a Typhoon as…
- A 'Hot Jupiter' exoplanet with an unusually fast orbit of 3.2 days has been discovered around an 'ageing star' 725 light years from the Earth. A team from the Indian Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad spent three months measuring the…
- The longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440 was spotted over Brisbane, Tokyo and New York overnight, turning the moon various shades of red. The celestial show saw the lunar disc almost completely cast in shadow as it moved behind the Earth,…
- Being able to detect when someone is lying has been a goal for decades, and now, thanks to artificial intelligence, scientists believe they may be getting close. In a very early stage trial, a team from Tel Aviv University placed sensors on…
- A rock loaded with the mineral olivine has been collected by NASA's Perseverance rover, with the team tweeting: 'Another little piece of Mars to carry with me'. This is the third in a series of samples the SUV-sized rover will collect during its time…
- For three and a half hours tomorrow morning, some parts of the world will see most of the moon change colour, turning red as it passes through the Earth's shadow. This will be the longest partial lunar eclipse of the century, according to NASA, with…
