Sci-Fi

Doctors are getting questions about the possibility of short-lived, though sometimes uncomfortable, side effects after the second Covid shot.  Mashable spoke with some of these doctors. They emphasize that the...

When Cern’s gargantuan accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), fired up ten years ago, hopes abounded that new particles would soon be discovered that could help us unravel physics’ deepest...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will, if things go according to plan, move one step closer to becoming the world’s first functioning nuclear fusion reactor this summer when scientists...

As exciting as the entire Perseverance mission to Mars is, one of the events most looked forward to by us Earthlings must be the first flight of Ingenuity. After conducting...

The human brain is a complex, miraculous thing. As best we can tell, it’s the epitome of biological evolution. But it doesn’t come with any security software preinstalled. And that...

Fresh new earth is pouring from the ground in Iceland.  And you can watch this lava splattering and flowing live on YouTube. Icelandic scientists put up a webcam on Saturday...

Less than 18 months after the "Black Summer" bushfire crisis that made global headlines last southern summer, Australia's east coast is dealing with torrential rain and flooding described as a...

Earth's grandeur is spilling out. The Icelandic Meteorological Office reported Friday evening that lava started flowing out of a fissure on the island's Reykjanes peninsula, after months of quaking in...

Mars has excellent ingredients for dust devils. While taking images of its new surroundings on the arid Martian surface, the Perseverance rover recently spotted a whirl of dust spinning by...

Snap. Whoosh. Ping. The Mars Perseverance rover, the first robot to record Martian sounds with a real microphone, has already picked up some eerie, extraterrestrial recordings. The sounds, available below,...