Scientists have cracked the perfect way to boil an egg – astonishingly, it takes half an hour. It is one of the undisputed facts of life that it is notoriously difficult to cook a perfectly ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of lives upended by the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima. Armed with ...

Scientists aboard the research vessel Reuben Lasker were conducting surveys of marine life off the Southern California coast in early January when ash from the Los Angeles wildfires began to rain ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday ...

Scientists are pioneering an underwater living space and hope to have permanent bases underwater in 2027, as ITV News' Science Correspondent Martin Stew reports Oceans cover two-thirds of our ...

A newly-discovered planet similar to our own could be capable of sustaining life (Picture: PA Wire) Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may ...

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“I’m now very enthusiastic to hear what other scientists can tell us about this newly discovered planet,” Dr. Michael Cretignier — a scientist with Oxford University, who first detected ...

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of Oxford. The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has ...

She is also fascinated by the process of science, the institutions that fund it, and the people who make it happen. Less than two days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Evangeline ...

More information: Jack D. Wright et al, Encapsulation of Hydrophobic Pollutants within a Large Water-Soluble [Fe 4 L 6] 4-Cage, Cell Reports Physical Science (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.102404 ...