After a just two games in Europe, a former Los Angeles Lakers champion has seemingly retired at the age of 40.

Carl Sagan was a huge influence on me, first through Cosmos. His idea was that knowledge does not exist in separate silos.

The University of KwaZulu-Natal is hosting a rather interesting event later this week. Entitled “South Africa in Space: Science, Technology and the Future”, this seminar looks ...

Young Ones turns a water-starved future into a brutal sci-fi Western, with Michael Shannon, a robotic mule, and a family ...

The Dutch tulip crash. How container shipping rewired global trade. Why every airport carpet looks like that. The Byzantine succession crisis nobody asked about. Ask them how their weekend was and you ...

We are getting close to Halloween, and it is always interesting to discuss something creepy. We have all had dreams where we felt like we were awake or wanted to shake off sleep and get up, but were ...

White dwarf stars, it turns out, come in a variety of hues. Says one astronomer: "Some of them genuinely surprised me." ...

Once again, I am solving the mathematics problems from Doshisha University, a prestigious private university in the Kansai ...

Austin Abrams is having a challenging year. After stumbling into this September’s Raccoon City outbreak, he’s now been ...

China is testing whether rice can reproduce across generations in space, paving the way for future off-world farms.

Can we predict where a single feather will land?One day, I started a conversation like this with Chappy, the AI."If you drop ...

Researchers reflect on The Scientist’s enduring impact on their careers and the scientific community on the magazine’s 40 ...