When Idaho's highway engineers faced a mountain of recycled glass, they didn't haul it to a landfill—they paved over it, ...

By refusing to look away, a space telescope discovered that planets are commonplace, not rare exceptions to the cosmic rule.

The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...

In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...

Concept illustration of a laser-driven lightsail. This is an artist's concept, not a spacecraft that has reached relativistic speed. Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives. Source and project information. A ...

For adults aged 60 and older, the point where more walking stopped adding much extra protection against dying early sat at roughly 6,000 to 8,000 steps a day. Not ten thousand. That figure comes from ...

Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...

A living root bridge starts out looking like something somebody forgot to pull up. A single pale root, no thicker than a shoelace, gets threaded by hand through a hollowed-out betel nut trunk laid ...

The Sun accounts for about 99.86 per cent of all the mass in the solar system. Put the other way around, every planet, moon, asteroid and comet combined comes to roughly 0.14 per cent of the total, ...

On the morning of 10 January 1946, at a scrubby Army post near the New Jersey shore called Camp Evans, a small team of Signal Corps engineers pointed a modified wartime radar antenna at the horizon ...

Turn up to a Madrid restaurant at seven in the evening and the chairs will still be stacked on the tables. Come back at half past ten and the room is packed, kids under the tables, grandparents ...

A road junction in Sendai, Japan, in the early 1990s. The light turns red, a line of cars stops, and a crow drops onto the road just ahead of a front tire. It sets down a walnut, then flies back to ...