Ultra-thin film transforms standard glasses into night-vision goggles
Scientists have developed a new ultra-thin film for ordinary glasses that lets people see in the dark. The film uses tens of nanometre-scale crystals...
China launches crewed Shenzhou-12 spacecraft to its new space station
China has successfully launched the crewed Shenzhou-12 spacecraft mission into its new space station. It is the country's longest crewed space trip in history,...
Scientists say they’ve devised a way to travel to Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our solar system and is presumed to offer the highest possibility of discovering an extraterrestrial being....
Wakey-wakey: This microscopic creature just returned to life after 24,000 years
A microscopic multi-cell organism known as "bdelloid" has regained its life after being frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia. Russian scientists discovered the bdelloid...
Quantum microscope enables examining unseeable structures in living cells
A team of researchers from Germany and Australia has built a microscope that can image minuscule biological structures. This is probably the first time...
Fluid robots now a possibility: Worlds first liquid magnet developed.
Liquid magnets, is that even a thing? Well, it is and has been for a while. Previously, they needed a constant external magnetic field...