Category: Science

The mammoth wave, now known as the Ucluelet wave, was captured by a solitary buoy near Vancouver Island. Its extraordinary height, equivalent to a four-story building, was nearly three times … Read More

Topline One of the “most beautiful” meteor showers this year will peak tonight, according to NASA, giving viewers a chance to see debris from Halley’s comet, which won’t return to … Read More

Like many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million years ago. The divots were created at a time … Read More

One afternoon in January 2011, Hussein Mourtada leapt onto his desk and started dancing. He wasn’t alone: Some of the graduate students who shared his Paris office were there, too. … Read More

Sparkling diamonds and verdant emeralds are some of the most coveted and priciest gemstones. But which precious stones are rarer: diamonds or emeralds? In terms of total known deposits, emeralds … Read More

A metallic plate about the size of a standard sheet of printer paper is bolting through space as you read this, engraved with the thoughts of U.S. Poet Laureate Ada … Read More

People have been left speechless after astronomers released the first photos from a giant map of the universe. It goes without saying that space is unimaginably massive, but this hasn’t … Read More

Chinese scientists have reportedly created the world’s strongest resistive magnet, which produced a steady magnetic field of 42.02 Tesla. This magnetic field is more than 800,000 times stronger than Earth’s. … Read More

The world is full of birds – chirping, fluttering, waddling; feathered, beaked, and clawed. These wonderfully diverse animals, the closest living descendants of the magnificent dinosaurs, have successfully made their … Read More

If you thought Australia’s spiders were scary, wait until you see the prehistoric version. Scientists have found a fossilised giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, only the fourth specimen … Read More