Peacock spiders keep dancing their way into our hearts. They're tiny, they're colourful, they're fluffy and they have killer moves.

Cassini has been out there hard at work for a long time. The Saturn probe departed Earth in 1997 and spent seven years speeding across the solar system to arrive in orbit around the ringed planet in 2004. For over 13 years, it's been up there collecting data…

It could even make you prone to illness.

For the first time ever, scientists have stored light-based information as sound waves on a computer chip - something the researchers compare to capturing lightning as thunder. While that might sound a little strange, this conversion is critical if we ever…

For the first time, astronomers have observed a fast-rotating star emitting polarised light, a phenomenon that was first predicted over 50 years ago but has eluded our instruments until now. And based on these findings, they have finally confirmed the crazy…

Today's teenagers don't seem to care much about hitting the open road, scoring a six-pack with a fake ID, or asking their peers out on dates. According to a recent study from psychologists Jean Twenge and Heejung Park, teenagers instead prefer to sit at home…

A dig through the literature has uncovered evidence of 27 distinct viruses from a wide variety of families capable of staying intact as they're transmitted through semen to a new host. While not all of the microbes are confirmed sexually transmitted infections…

Wrapping your messages up with quantum weirdness is a great way to avoid sneaky eavesdropping, but in its current form it's more like Morse code than high speed ADSL broadband. That could be set to change with a radical advancement in quantum technology that…

Fast radio bursts are quite the ongoing space mystery. We don't know what they are, and only a couple of dozen sources have ever been detected by radio telescopes. But they may not be as rare as we think - they could be firing off as frequently as once a…

Do you ever have trouble telling right from left? For example you're taking a driving lesson and the instructor asks you to take a left turn and you pause, struggling to think of which way is left. If so, you're not on your own – a significant proportion…

There's a Link Between Chronic Migraines And This Common Jaw Disorder Here's what you need to know. Here Are 7 Places in Our Solar System Most Likely to Harbour Microbial Life Apart from Earth, of course. Scientists Have Designed a Crystalline Type of Aluminium…

Shutterstock Cosmic rays are a powerful type of radiation that pose a risk to astronauts. Beyond Earth’s protective magnetic shield, they increase the risk of cancer and other health effects. The first Mars explorers may face a two-fold higher risk than previously…

Update 27/09/17: It's happening! We have confirmation that the LIGO team will go ahead with the rumoured announcement today at 6:30pm Italian time (that's 12:30pm EST). We'll be doing a live blog when that happens so stay tuned for a link to that right here!…

The human brain is used as a comparison for how computer's function. But, honestly, computers are nothing like human brains. Not yet, at least. That could change as researchers have developed computing technology that uses light to mimic the functionality…

In the annals of deadly diseases, few have plagued humankind as viciously as malaria. In ancient times, Hippocrates attributed malarial fevers to bad air. At one point, the Roman Empire directed those suffering from fever to wear amulets inscribed with "abracadabra"…

This Northern Hemisphere summer, researchers spent two months collecting samples from a submerged landmass known as Zealandia. As a result, we could gain new insight into everything from ancient life forms to climate change. Tens of millions of years ago…

Sometimes, the only way to patch up a fracture is to use surgical screws that keep everything in place while the bone is healing. But sticking a piece of metal inside the body can lead to various complications. Now surgeons have come up with a novel type…

A senior astronomer at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute believes we are just decades away from confirming the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. The SETI Institute has spent decades researching and exploring the…

Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. The three are members of the LIGO-Virgo detector collaboration that discovered gravitational waves. "This year's prize is about a discovery that shook the world," said…