It has been 80 years since the first Japanese warship was sunk by the Australian navy during World War Two. The I-124 had been on a secret mission laying mines off the coast of Darwin when it suffered irreparable damage from dozens
An aerospace firm may have found the holy grail of spaceflight, after revealing plans to build a fully reusable spaceplane that can take off and land from a runway. Radian Aerospace, based in Bellevue, Washington, claim its spaceplane will completely transform travel
It’s often said that men and women’s brains work so differently that one sex is from Venus and the other is from Mars. Well now a new study supports this hypothesis after finding 1,000 genes that are much more active in one
Ancient Japanese tombs are aligned so they all face the arc of the rising sun, according to a new study involving satellite images. Hundreds of ancient burial mounds can be found dotted across the Japanese Islands, the largest of which are known
Elon Musk has demonstrated the Neuralink brain chip in a pig, a monkey and new job listing from the company suggests we could soon see it preform in a human brain. The firm is now hiring a clinical trial director, which says
Surgeons have successfully transplanted two pig kidneys into a human, marking a ‘significant step’ in the decades-long quest to use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Jim Parsons, 57, of Huntsville, Alabama, had two kidneys, both procured from a genetically modified pig, transplanted
A world famous astrophotographer risked his own eyesight in a bid to capture a stunning image of Venus as it passed perilously close to the sun. Andrew McCarthy, from Arizona, US, takes some of the most striking and detailed images of astronomical
The world’s plastic pollution threat constitutes a ‘planetary emergency’ that’s equal to climate change and biodiversity loss, a new report warns. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has urged nations globally to agree to a UN treaty so they’re committed to legally binding
A team from Caladan Oceanic went hunting for in the Philippine Sea for the USS Johnston, a World War II ship that sank in 1944, when they came across something even more amazing – an world’s deepest-dwelling squid. More than 20,000 feet
New hope for a HIV cure? Scientists eliminate virus in 40% of mice by using a ‘kick and kill’ technique that forces it out of hiding and makes it vulnerable to injections of killer immune cells Patients with HIV typically take antiretrovirals