Science
Solar storm warning: Sun ejects 50,000 mile-long ‘canyon of hot plasma’ – impact predicted
A so-called coronal mass ejection (CME) was seen escaping the Sun on Wednesday and may deliver a “glancing blow” to the planet. CMEs...
Egypt’s ‘biggest discovery in decades’ solves 4,500-year-old pharaoh mystery: ‘Impressive’
The experts made what is being dubbed as “one of the most important discoveries in 50 years” in Abu Gorab, south of Cairo....
Archaeologist baffled by ancient body reattached ‘like a human puppet’
The southwest of England is an archaeological goldmine. From the Jurassic Coast to Stonehenge to the legendary birthplace of King Arthur in Tintagel, amazing discoveries are made...
Archaeologists stunned by ‘marvel of engineering’ found in lost civilisation of Petra
Petra has been scrutinised by archaeologists over the decades. Once a bustling hub of politics, culture and economics, the city was one of, if not the most important...
Musk humiliated as SpaceX’s tourist flight toilet breaks and sprays contents everywhere
Passengers on board got a nasty surprise when the toilet tucked away in the Crew Dragon spaceship’s ceiling broke loose in an area...
Ancient Egypt ‘extraordinary’ discovery of ‘rare mummified baby girls’ in King Tut’s tomb
Egyptologists have long since poured over the myriad relics found across Egypt. Ancient pieces of history have turned up all over, most notably along the...
Viruses, even alien ones, are delicate things
Prof Paul Davies’s headline-grabbing proposal of an invasion by alien viruses (Viruses may exist ‘elsewhere in the universe’, warns scientist, 6 September) may...
Champagne moment as supernova captured in detail for the first time
The earliest moments of a supernova – the cataclysmic explosion of a massive star – have been observed in unprecedented detail, in a...
Solar winds incoming! Space weather forecast predicts ‘unrest’ as hole opens in the Sun
Space weather forecasters expect the stream of charged particles and plasma to reach Earth by Wednesday, July 28. The solar winds are escaping from...
Paralyzed man’s brain waves turned into sentences on computer in medical first
In a medical first, researchers harnessed the brainwaves of a paralyzed man unable to speak and turned what he intended to say into...
