Over 800 people have died after a massive tsunami hit Indonesia
A massive earthquake and tsunami has hit the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Over 800 people have died and another 50,000 people have been displaced
US review of fetal research signals the return of the abortion wars
Backed by the “most pro-life president in modern history”, conservatives are gearing up for a new assault on reproductive rights, says Lara Williams
China’s Tiangong-2 space station is set to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere
Last year Chinas’ space agency lost control of the Tiangong-1 space station during de-orbiting – they will be hoping history doesn’t repeat with Tiangong-2
Weird signals in Antarctica could be hints of a new realm of physics
A NASA radio balloon floating over Antarctica has spotted high-energy events that can’t be explained by our current understanding of particle physics
This robot crawls over your body and scans your skin with a microscope
SkinBot is a palm-sized robot that crawls over your skin inspecting it with a microscope and sensors that detect electrical signals
Does more than 2 hours of screen time really harm children’s brains?
A study says that children do better academically if they limit screen time, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is time to ban their phones
First Man: Ryan Gosling and Damien Chazelle on faking the moon landing
We talk to the star and director of First Man, the new film about the Apollo 11 mission, and ask what it was like getting into the head of the famously enigmatic Neil Armstrong
Why haven’t we heard from aliens? Because we’ve barely started looking
The search for alien life has found nothing so far. But the part of the galaxy we’ve searched is equivalent to just a bathtub of water in the world’s oceans
Every man in Spain was wiped out 4500 years ago by hostile invaders
When a new group of people arrived on the Iberian peninsula 4500 years ago, local males stopped passing on their genes – suggesting they were supplanted or killed
Pollution threatens to wipe out half of all orca communities
Ten of the 19 orca populations in the oceans could vanish within a century because of the effects of reproduction-disrupting PCB chemicals