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Is your knowledge of the Celts a veritable pot of gold, or do you need the luck of the Irish to finish the quiz?

Scientists are still debating whether the human brain is capable of growing new cells past childhood.

Advanced image restoration techniques have produced reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time.

5 common mistakes made by novice microscope users and how to prevent or overcome them.

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the second time a ti...

Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.

Look closely at the spots to tell leopards from jaguars: there's a subtle clue.

See the stunning timelapse captured by photographer Aaron Watson showing ghostly airglow ripples pass through the Colorado sky.

This is the best wildlife observation equipment you can buy in every category, from binoculars and cameras to GPS and compasses.

Here's when and where to look for the best chance of seeing Noctilucent, 'night shining' clouds in summer 2025.

Great eared nightjars live on the forest floor, remaining motionless throughout the day, camouflaged among leaf litter and tree stumps.

A type of hydrogen that doesn't interact with light could explain how long neutrons live and reveal the identity of the universe's dark matt...

The nuclei of atoms are often portrayed as round in textbooks, but it turns out they're rarely spherical.

May 31, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the w...

The ice on the surface of Jupiter's massive moon Europa is constantly changing, hinting at the presence of a subsurface ocean, new James Web...

By controlling individual atoms, researchers have demonstrated a way to turn previously unwanted atomic motion into an advantage.

A British metal detectorist discovered a gold band with an engraved date-of-death in Norfolk.

Scientists have found a way to monitor volcanic carbon dioxide levels — one of the first signs a volcano might be about to blow — that doesn...

An artificial intelligence safety firm has found that OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models sometimes refuse to shut down, and will sabotage comput...

The site's architecture may indicate the Judaean princess was buried there.

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they're fireballs o...

A large sunspot has just reappeared on the sun's Earth-facing surface, almost two months after it first emerged. The unusually old dark patc...

Invisible radiation leaking out of private satellites, like SpaceX's Starlink spacecraft, is disrupting radio astronomers' ability to detect...

First theorized in 1938, heat's wave-like flow through superfluids, known as "second sound", has proven difficult to directly observe. Now,...

The number of satellites orbiting Earth is rising fast, thanks to private companies such as SpaceX. But just how big will these "megaconstel...