Supermassive black holes could be the source of mysterious cosmic rays
Mar 18, 2016 02:17 am UTC| Science
An international team of astronomers has discovered that the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy might be the source of mysterious high-energy cosmic rays that bombard the Earth on a daily basis. The...
How does genetics explain non-identical identical twins?
Mar 17, 2016 23:35 pm UTC| Science Health
Newspapers recently went wild with a story about identical twin sisters with a difference: they werent identical. Like all identical twins, Amelia and Jasmine arose from a single fertilised egg so have identical DNA, but...
Picture of Pluto further refined by months of New Horizons data
Mar 17, 2016 22:46 pm UTC| Science
When the New Horizons spacecraft made its flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, there was worldwide celebration that wed finally gotten our first detailed look at this completely new type of planet in the outer reaches of our...
Hidden housemates: cockroaches
Mar 17, 2016 05:17 am UTC| Science
Cockroaches are a very ancient group of insects. They have been around virtually unchanged in general appearance since the Carboniferous period, more than 300 million years ago. Technically speaking they are in the...
What the 'weather' is like on a star can help in the search for life
Mar 17, 2016 05:15 am UTC| Science
An artists illustration of Kappa Ceti whose stellar winds are 50 times stronger than our suns. Any Earth-like planet would need a magnetic field to protect its atmosphere if it was to stand a chance of hosting life. M....
Indonesia offers a cool million to whoever can help take the heat off its peatlands
Mar 17, 2016 01:28 am UTC| Technology Science
Last year, fires burned 2 million hectares of peatlands in Indonesia, creating an acrid haze that affected several neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. As nations met in Paris late last year to agree a deal to limit...
How much math do you need to win your March Madness pool?
Mar 16, 2016 14:23 pm UTC| Sports Science
Deciding which teams to pick in your NCAA basketball pool? Then youre faced with a classic decision problem and here, science can help. On one hand, you want to pick good teams, the favorites, because those teams seem...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects