Once in power, Franco was largely uninterested in the Sagrada Família throughout his 36-year rule, and progress stagnated. It wasn't until 1976, the year after the dictator died, that the bell towers ...

“Stay tuned for an update from us,” ESA has announced, and we can’t wait to see what else will come from JUICE. This might be one of the closest observations of an object from deep space, unless a ...

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

"No matter how it happened, we do know that with a mother to protect it, feed it, and teach it how to be a polar bear, the cub’s chances of survival are far better now than if it was left on its own." ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.

To uncover these surprising sexual preferences, researchers examined the sex chromosomes of both modern humans and Neanderthals. In females, these consist of a pair of X chromosomes, while males ...

"Since cancer happens where there are cells in your body, why have I never seen such thing as heart/muscles cancer?" ...

If we define scared as reacting in response to a threat, then the evidence suggests a resounding yes. I’ll say it louder for ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Laura ...

T here are currently six planets visible in the night sky, in a lovely planetary parade. All but Mars can be seen after ...

Comets are a trickier prospect. The first spots of direct evidence, collected in the 1990s by the Giotto spacecraft and later ...

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