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We are closer than ever to finally proving the multiverse exists

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Are space and time illusions? The answer could lie in black holes

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The universe is built a lot like a giant brain 鈥� so is it conscious?

Close up image of antibiotic resistant bacteria inside a biofilm.

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Why antibiotic resistance could make the last pandemic look minor

This image from ESO?s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light. It was taken as part of the VISTA Variables in the V?a L?ctea (VVV) survey, which is currently scanning the Milky Way in a bid to map our galaxy?s structure and explain how it formed.

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Why this is a golden age for life to thrive across the universe

MAZATLAN, MEXICO - APRIL 08: A man prepares his telescope to see the eclipse on April 08, 2024 in Mazatlan, Mexico. Millions of people have flocked to areas across North America that are in the "path of totality" in order to experience a total solar eclipse. During the event, the moon will pass in between the sun and the Earth, appearing to block the sun. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

Physics

Is it possible to fully understand the universe while living in it?

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/07/Stephan_s_Quintet_NIRCam_and_MIRI_imaging Stephan?s Quintet ? NIRCam and MIRI imaging An enormous mosaic of Stephan?s Quintet is the largest image to date from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, covering about one-fifth of the Moon?s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The visual grouping of five galaxies was captured by Webb?s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). With its powerful, infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen details in this galaxy group. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth grace the image. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb?s MIRI instrument captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster. These regions surrounding the central pair of galaxies are shown in the colours red and gold. This composite NIRCam-MIRI image uses two of the three MIRI filters to best show and differentiate the hot dust and structure within the galaxy. MIRI sees a distinct difference in colour between the dust in the galaxies versus the shock waves between the interacting galaxies. The image processing specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore opted to highlight that difference by giving MIRI data the distinct yellow and orange colours, in contrast to the blue and white colours assigned to stars at NIRCam?s wavelengths.

Space

How big is the universe? The shape of space-time could tell us

Space

Why you should feel comforted, not scared, by the vastness of space

Space

This mind-blowing map shows Earth鈥檚 position within the vast universe

HY0AKX Little green alien and welcome sign welcomes visitors to a business in Roswell, New Mexico

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Why our location in the Milky Way is perfect for finding alien life

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What 100 years of studying other galaxies has told us about the cosmos

A hundred years since Edwin Hubble announced his discovery that ours is not the only galaxy, we are still awestruck by the scale and structure of our universe 鈥� and there are many mysteries still left to solve

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Jupiter鈥檚 Great Red Spot may have disappeared and reformed

The Earth-sized storm on Jupiter known as the red spot was thought by many to have been first observed in 1665, but it turns out that may have been an entirely different enormous storm, with today's storm dating back only to 1831

Space

Stunning JWST image proves we were right about how young stars form

Humans

World’s oldest wine found in 2000-year-old Roman tomb

Mind

AI reads brain activity to reveal what part of a movie you’re watching

Environment

Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution

Physics

Quantum 鈥榮uper behaviour鈥� could create energy seemingly from nothing

Life

Triceratops relative had the weirdest horns ever seen on a dinosaur

Environment

Cloud geoengineering could push heatwaves from US to Europe

Life

Dazzling photos capture the unreal beauty of insects

Technology

Driverless cars are mostly safer than humans 鈥� but worse at turns

Humans

Easter Island’s legendary societal collapse didn’t actually happen

Chemistry

Chemists invoke bizarre Maxwell’s demon on the largest scale yet

Life

Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties

Health

Walking helps keep people free of lower back pain for longer

Environment

Farmland near Chernobyl nuclear reactor is finally safe to use again

Health

We finally know why some people seem immune to catching covid-19

Chemistry

Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its length

Life

Watch leeches jump by coiling their bodies like cobras

Space

Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings

Analysis

Health

Could paying people to lose weight help tackle obesity?

Financial incentives have helped people with obesity lose weight in trials, but whether the approach is sustainable or cost-effective remains to be seen

Health

Why we should be wary of social media’s obsession with the vagus nerve

Physics

How physics is helping us to explain why time always moves forwards

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Technology

See the solitary structures that once helped aircraft stay on course

Photographer Ignacio Evangelista's stark shots shine a light on the little-known VOR beacons, once key to aviation navigation but now being replaced by GPS

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Space

How big is the universe? The shape of space-time could tell us

We may never know what lies beyond the boundaries of the observable universe, but the fabric of the cosmos can tell us whether the universe is infinite or not

Physics

Are space and time illusions? The answer could lie in black holes

Physics

Why this is a golden age for life to thrive across the universe

Space

Why our location in the Milky Way is perfect for finding alien life

Space

This mind-blowing map shows Earth鈥檚 position within the vast universe

Space

Why you should feel comforted, not scared, by the vastness of space

Physics

Is it possible to fully understand the universe while living in it?

Physics

The universe is built a lot like a giant brain 鈥� so is it conscious?

Physics

We are closer than ever to finally proving the multiverse exists

Health

Why antibiotic resistance could make the last pandemic look minor

Culture

TOPSHOT - A man pushes a bycicle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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A powerful new book shows why it’s so important to understand war

In his latest book, Why War?, historian Richard Overy grapples with a question that stumped Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud 鈥� why do humans persist in waging war?

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Matt Parker’s comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths

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Save the planet, release your inner wild, urges a passionate new book

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. The red giant is a large sphere in shades of red, orange, and white, with the side facing the white dwarf the lightest shades. The white dwarf is hidden in a bright glow of white and yellows, which represent an accretion disk around the star. A stream of material, shown as a diffuse cloud of red, flows from the red giant to the white dwarf. When the red giant moves behind the white dwarf, a nova explosion on the white dwarf ignites, creating a ball of ejected nova material shown in pale orange. After the fog of material clears, a small white spot remains, indicating that the white dwarf has survived the explosion. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Space

Get ready to watch a rare explosive star system blaze into life

So bright you'll be able to see it without a telescope, a 鈥渘ew鈥� star system, T Coronae Borealis, will become visible for the first time in 80 years between now and September. Abigail Beall explains where to spot it

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