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Mount Everest is not the farthest point from Earth's centre: This South American mountain holds that record

Nigerian teen develops biodegradable sanitary pads from farm waste and earns global recognition: Meet Raheema Auwal-Panti

Scientists develop 'smart paint' that reflects 97% of sunlight and could reduce AC use during heatwaves

Lost Himalayan blueberry rediscovered in Arunachal Pradesh after 188 years: Rare Vaccinium piliferum found in dense forests

Who are the Japanese? Massive DNA project uncovers a forgotten ancestral population

Van-mounted solar panels generated more power than expected: Scientists explain why

The Milky Way’s deadly cosmic cocktail smells like rum and tastes like raspberries

He turns concrete walls into living forests: Meet the Spanish botanist transforming cities with vertical gardens

Why do sunsets on Mars glow blue despite the planet being red

Billionaire wars: Jeff Bezos steals $230M Moon deal from Elon Musk as NASA selects Blue Origin for the first of three uncrewed lunar missions

Nasa unveils 3-phase roadmap for permanent Moon base; 3 lunar missions planned this year

Quote of the day by Michael Faraday: “There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.”

The cow compass: How cows secretly use Earth’s magnetic field while grazing

Quote of the day by “The Chinese Marie Curie” Chien-Shiung Wu: “There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty…”

Meet China’s new humanoid robot: It can cook dinner, wash clothes and care for seniors, but one everyday problem still stops it

Stanford scientists cured Type 1 diabetes in a breakthrough experiment

Why China's anti-ageing dreams are pushing donkeys into extinction

Massive gravity “hole” beneath the Indian Ocean finally gets a possible explanation after decades of scientific mystery

What began as a bizarre 1959 metal experiment could end up changing how the world reuses heat and generates electricity

California chemical leak: What is methyl methacrylate, the chemical forcing 40,000 residents to evacuate?

Watch: SpaceX Starship bursts into flames during fiery Indian Ocean splashdown after test flight

Quote of the day by Brian Cox: “We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to..."

16-year-old girl turns orange peels into a water-saving farming solution in South Africa, transforming drought-hit agriculture

Astronomers detected a massive magnetic ‘twist’ inside the Milky Way that could reshape understanding of our galaxy

Quote of the day by Carl Sagan: “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff..."

NASA’s Moon Base coming: New plan for a permanent human base on the Moon set to be revealed on May 26

Scientists grow a bacteria-made “living” supermaterial that could replace plastic

Nasa's Psyche spacecraft swings by Mars en route to metal-rich asteroid; see pics

Explained: Why the world always has 9% left-handed people

Garage prodigy: 14-year-old boy built a nuclear fusion device in his parents’ garage

Quote of the day by Charles Darwin: “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to...”

5,000 mysterious holes carved into a Peruvian hillside were an ancient computer used for accounting

SpaceX prepares to launch Starship Version 3 rocket: Countdown begins for May 20 launch of upgraded mega rocket

Quote of the day by American psychologist B. F. Skinner: “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”

How your smartphone camera exists because of Albert Einstein: The Nobel-winning idea that was once considered bizarre

Scientists discovered nature’s own “brakes” deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that may have prevented massive megaquakes

Scientists reveal more than 1.3 million people may share DNA with Maryland’s earliest colonists

The unmeasurable abyss: The deepest blue hole on earth has a hidden tunnel that defies science

The buried secret inside South Africa’s broken rocks that revealed Earth’s biggest impact

1.7 million photos for one second: Astrophotographer spends 6 days to capture an ‘once-in-a-lifetime Solar transit shot’

Milan to Moon: NASA astronauts may wear Prada spacesuits during Artemis III mission

Scientists uncover a 60-mile hidden network beneath Africa that is still growing

400,000-year-old teeth unearthed: Mysterious fossil evidence hints at a lost chapter of human connection

Super El Niño 2026 warning: Pacific Ocean heating faster than expected, scientists warn of severe global impact

Quote of the day by Galileo Galilei: “There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.”

In 1978, a Mexico City street dig unearthed a colossal Aztec stone disk that reopened the sacred heart of the ancient empire

Scientists looked inside Bolivia’s zombie volcano, and the reality eased everyone’s fears

Why a Bill Gates-backed insect factory releases 30 million mosquitoes every week

The trillion-dollar asteroid: NASA is chasing an asteroid that contains more gold than exists on Earth

In 1831, a man digging in a Scottish sand dune found a "frozen" crowd of ivory faces that changed history