Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...

Unusual for animals from a biological point of view, female mountain gorillas often live many years after last giving birth - ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Born in Kiel, Germany, in 1858, Max Planck grew up in a family that valued hard work and tradition. Planck went off to study ...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Magnetic materials have been known since ancient times and play an important role in modern society, where the net magnetic ...

Sexual behavior is one reason why female mammals typically live longer than their male counterparts, according to a new study ...

Many governments and tech companies are investing heavily in quantum technologies. In New Zealand, the recently announced Institute for Advanced Technology is also envisioned to focus on this area of ...

In most mammals, females live longer than males, but in birds the trend goes the other way – a study of over 1000 species ...

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never ...

On October 1 1975, the academic journal Screen published an essay by British film theorist Laura Mulvey titled Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. It is a groundbreaking critique of classical ...