The Sahara Desert implacably expands
The Sahara Desert has grown significantly over the past century, and climate change is largely to blame, according to a new study. Analysing data collected since 1923, a research team...
The Sahara Desert has grown significantly over the past century, and climate change is largely to blame, according to a new study. Analysing data collected since 1923, a research team...
It’s quite an interesting question: how different colours can affect our mood and behaviour. For example, if you’ve recently been to a fast food restaurant, you might notice that there’s...
Anyone who owns a dog is familiar with the “gaze”—that hypnotic, imploring stare that demands reciprocation. It can seem to hold a world of mystery and longing, or just pure...
“This is the new normal: We will offer safe fully autonomous driving by 2021,” declared Klaus Fröhlich, the BMW board member responsible for development. By 2025, Fröhlich claimed, BMW will...
The northern hemisphere has experienced a record-breaking summer, with extreme temperatures sparking wildfires, baking landscapes and triggering disruption and devastation across four continents. Scientists have long warned that these intense...
An asteroid called 2016 NF23 is expected to “skim past” our planet in the next few days. As it hurtles through space at a speed of over 20,000 miles per...
The Great Pyramid of Giza may be able to focus electromagnetic radiation into pockets of energy inside its network of internal chambers and underneath its base, a new study has...
An enormous drought that swept across Mexico around 1,000 years ago triggered the demise of one of the world’s greatest ancient civilisations. Scientists studying the climate at the time of...
Scientists have identified a whole set of planets where life could have begun just like it did on Earth. Researchers at Cambridge University found that the chances of life developing...
Early “haute cuisine” is thousands of years older than previously thought. Archaeologists have discovered what appears to be the birth of sophisticated cooking – at a Stone Age site in...