Star stuff and stardust are not synonymous, and there is a good chunk of another special ingredient needed.

This long-necked legend was an icon of conservation.

This could explain differences between Bermuda and the rest of the world’s volcanic islands that have puzzled geologists for decades.

They’re simply mad for the free salad buffet.

To coffee: the cause of, and solution to, all our anxieties and sleeping problems.

“[In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the mathematics.”

This sneaky cephalopod may be setting a trap.

No, you can’t blame that on why you feel much older once you are hiking.

Blue morphs can make up between 1-5 percent of the Arctic fox population in some regions.

“There is never a bad time to be vaccinated – whether you’re currently pregnant or planning a pregnancy.”

Could the robots of the future be made of slightly fishy leftovers?

Even regular people helped out with these incredible observations.

Whether it's demonstrating tool use or not, we’re having a great time watching it.

Prehistoric Europeans may hold the secret to a long life.

The more we dig into human ancestry, the more complex things get.

Ancient volcanism on the Moon deserves more credit.

It has a bigger job than people assume.

The final words of a brave man.

These birds spent over 99.5 percent of their ten-month migration in the air.

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

It’s not science fiction, it’s just the air being electrifyingly weird!

The story seems almost too perfect, and has probably been exaggerated for effect, but it’s delightful even without those bits.

“It’s been a privilege to be able to observe this phenomenon."

There are weird space rocks, there are very weird space rocks, and then there is Phaethon.

RIP Camera V3.

That old adage is rooted in some surprisingly up-to-date research.

The pineal gland has also been erroneously linked to the Third Eye.

Oops.

Polar bears are rapidly rewriting their own DNA to survive.

In sickness and in health, forsaking all others... at about the same success rate as a meerkat.

Religious iconography might have accidentally nailed the symbol.

The star of Eyes Wide Shut and The Mummy reportedly has lines he won't cross, even if it means he doesn't get to shoot a movie in space.

The tech could be used to help prevent skin cancer on Earth, too.

Something to think about over your next pint of the good stuff.

As if having to evade T. rexes wasn’t scary enough without these monsters lurking every time you came to drink.

Suddenly, they were no longer portents of doom, and we could predict the heavens.

Looking at fossilized Diplodocus scales revealed a melanosome mystery.

GRB 250314A looks "exactly like modern supernovae", and that, in itself, is a little unexpected.

Lurking further from its stars than Neptune is from the Sun, this is no inner planet, but it’s on a scale we recognize, unlike previous examples.

While the Voyager spacecraft are constantly traveling out of the Solar System, sometimes they are getting closer to Earth.

It isn't because they've been staring at the TV for too long.

Is vegetable oil to blame?

Engineer Michaela Benthaus will make history on Blue Origin's next space tourist trip.

Those salmon never stood a chance.

You might know, but have you heard of the honorable mentions?

Could mammoths have walked among us just 2,000 years ago?

The only thing more awkward than forgetting your kid? Finding him Home Alone with two corpses.

Ádh mór ort!

Following the anomaly the spacecraft is no longer communicating with Earth, and NASA isn't sure why.

There's a surprising amount of science going on in your pasta.

We used to be a proper country.

People are talking about a “new strain” of the winter bug – what’s the situation?

Mammals tend to invest a lot in just a few offspring. Dinosaurs went a very different route.

This confirms one of Einstein’s predictions from over a century ago.

SO SMOL.

When something is this far outside the bounds of anything we’ve seen before, explanations are unlikely to come quickly, but a few pieces of the puzzle have emerged.

And it wasn't made by Homo sapiens.

Is it truly different or do we need to do a better calibration?

The two have a brilliant response to the "3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft" hypothesis.

December 25 turns out to be a surprisingly busy day for science.

They’re the very definition of live fast and die young!

There's a fine line between genius and insanity.

Not bad for 2,000-year-old technology.

Amphibious? Amphi-BADASS.

The markings, which appear on the outside of the fruit, are the result of a virus. They are safe to eat, even if they do look pretty weird.

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

If you ever need immunotherapy for cancer, the time of day of your appointments could be a matter of life and death.

We all experience cravings from time to time, but some people crave things that no one would consider food.

From ghosts appearing in photographs to a lot of bent spoons, things got pretty weird when the “Alpha Kids” crashed a study.

Black pepper must be one of the world's favourite fruits. Yes, fruits.

A tale of adversity, innovation, and bloody murder.

One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But there's one small problem; it may go against planetary protection guidelines.

Centuries of history are in your cinnamon spice jar.

Two words: Butyric acid.

Thar be treasure.

According to some estimates, our tail stretches up to 1,000 times the Earth’s radius.

Some of the early patients in the trial are still free of cancer after three years.

The species could be extinct as early as 2035 if the trend continues.

Now, that is an ultrafast wind!

The virus was found in an individual with a recent history of travel to Asia.

It wasn't us after all.

The decapitated goose trick is as wild as it sounds.

Even supporters of mRNA vaccination against COVID-19 might be surprised at just how much higher death rates are among the unvaccinated.

To mine or not to mine? New research reveals what's at stake.

The key to getting active? Learning to lie down.

In space, nobody can hear you argue about the best movie set there.

Three times the size of Yellowstone, the Leuser Ecosystem is a haven for Sumatra's tigers.

Our model of the cosmos is still in very hot water.

Internal emails released during a court case provided evidence of undisclosed “corporate ghostwriting”.

Typical England.

The shelter was hit by a drone in the early hours of February 14, 2025.

The Romans botched their calendar, and we still haven't fixed it.

Why did the dinosaur turn full-circle? We’ll probably never know, but the unusual motion could still be revealing.

Turns out, they were probably a side effect.