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Mammoth marine reptile found on UK beach

Scientists believe the ichthyosaur could be the largest ever found.

Voyager 1 turns back on

At more than 15 billion miles from Earth, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is the most distant human-made object in space.

Cleopatra's lost tomb

You told us that historical mysteries capture your imaginations, so here's an ancient Egyptian riddle.

ALIEN HUNTERS

JD Savage blasts off on an out-of-this world quest to find life beyond Earth's borders.

What happens to the ocean if we take out all the fish?

Find out about the vital role fish play in sea life.

ROAR POWER

Scratch the myths - Isabel Thomas earns her stripes and reveals the truth behind tigers' extra-ROAR-dinary powers.

Kate Speller

For our readers' issue, we met a zookeeper who works with big cats.

The brains between the sticks

Is it true that goalkeepers see the world differently?

NATURE IN FOCUS

Join in with Science+Nature's trail at Cheltenham Science Festival.

Orangutan uses plants to heal wound

For the first time ever, a wild animal has been observed healing a wound using a plant as medicine.

THE LAB

Three things to make and do

Stones of the SOLSTICE

Jamie Carter explores 12 ancient stones, tombs and temples across the world that align with the Sun at the solstice

The spirit of the eclipse

Eclipse chaser Yvette Cook reports on what it was like in the path of totality in Texas during 8 April's Great American Eclipse

Unearthing galaxies in the archives

Comparing old Hubble data to today is revealing distant active galaxies

Manhattanhenge

New York's urban island of Manhattan, with its gridiron street layout, sees summer Suns set neatly between skyscrapers. Jamie Carter explains the phenomenon

Surfing spacetime with LISA

A new era of gravitational wave astronomy is on its way as the ambitious upcoming LISA space mission joins a host of huge detectors on Earth. Charlie Hoy explains

A very British eclipse

In 1927, Britain experienced its first total solar eclipse since 1724. Mike Frost looks at how, like 8 April 2024's US spectacle, eclipse fever swept the nation

Cosmic rays

In part two of our series, Govert Schilling looks at cosmic rays, the high-energy particles that bombard Earth from space

A quicker way to colourise your narrowband frames

Create a bicolour image in Siril using data from just two narrowband filters

When Haydn met the Herschels

Jonathan Powell on how the astronomer siblings inspired the famous composer

Voyager 1 is back online and exploring the unknown

An interstellar rescue brings the venerable spacecraft back after months out of action

COULD A SUPERNOVA WORDS ANDREW MAY ENGULF EARTH?

We put some intriguing, baffling and bizarre space questions under the spotlight

A drone with a rotating detonation rocket engine' approached the speed of sound

venus Aerospace has completed the inaugural test flight of a drone fitted with its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE), accelerating it to just under the speed of sound.

DNA reveals that ancient American lineage goes back 18,000 years

Members of the Blackfoot Confederacy have an ancient lineage that goes back 18,000 years. This means that Indigenous peoples living in the Great Plains of Montana and southern Alberta today can trace their origins to ice age predecessors.

A group of 60 ultra-faint stars could be a new type of galaxy

A stronomers have spotted the faintest and lightest satellite galaxy ever found: a minuscule, tight-knit group of stars trailing the Milky Way.

An underwater mountain hosts creatures unknown to science

An underwater mountain chain off Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, hosts an astonishing array of deep-sea species, at least 50 of which are new to science.

Understanding MENTAL HEALTH

Take a tour of the brain to discover the origins of anxiety and how to tackle it

HOW STONEHENGE WAS BUILT

Who built this stone circle and how was this ancient feat of engineering pulled off?

A sleeping subduction zone could swallow the Atlantic

A subduction zone below the Gibraltar Strait is creeping westward and could one day ‘invade’ the Atlantic Ocean, causing the ocean to slowly close up.

WHAT ARE ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS?

Some natural products are drastically transformed by the food industry, and regularly eating them can affect our health