Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time
Compounds called pyrenes have been detected in the Taurus molecular cloudESO A…
Mathematicians have found a new way to identify prime numbers
Can you find the primes?ROBERT BROOK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY For the first time…
Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids
Samples from asteroid RyuguJAXA Future astronauts could eat a nutritionally perfect diet…
Planet spotted orbiting Barnard’s star just 6 light years away
Artist’s impression of Barnard’s star b, a planet in orbit around Barnard’s…
Radioactive ion beam could target tumours more precisely
A PET scan of a mouse receiving radioactive ion beam treatment. The…
Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year
Venus may have regular quakes linked to the activity of volcanoes like…
Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W bosons at CERN
The CMS detector at the Large Hadron ColliderSciTech Image/James King-Holmes/Alamy Stock Photo…
Huge new volcano has burst through the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io
This Juno image from February (right) reveals a new volcano that wasn’t…
DNA computer can play chess and solve sudoku puzzles
A DNA computer can solve simplified chess and sudoku puzzlesKevin Lin A…
Fuzzy quantum effects have been seen on the largest scale yet
Quantum effects result in particles behaving like waves that interfere with each…
