Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to cutting-edge science, there is now a lab in California that has petri dishes filled with pea-size versions of the cavemen's brains. Why ...

WASHINGTON—Tiny, rolling balls of brain cells knocking around in a lab may one day help keep you from losing your marbles—among other things. The small cellular balls act like mini-brains, mimicking ...

Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths may have a lot more in common than just being superlatives. Four gaseous exoplanets, each a bit smaller than Neptune, seem to be evolving into super-Earths, rocky worlds ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider may be the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created. Such miniature robots could someday be used for ...

This study discovered mini-Neptunes around four red dwarfs using observations from a global network of ground-based telescopes and the TESS space telescope. These four mini-Neptunes are close to their ...

Think that the Moon is the only object orbiting Earth? You might want to think again. Researchers have theorized the existence of “mini-moons” — tiny asteroids pulled into Earth’s orbit by forces of ...

Earth has welcomed a new temporary mini-moon, asteroid 2025 PN7, a 62-foot object now orbiting our planet for decades. This quasi-moon, part of the Arjuna population, offers a rare chance to study ...

Michael J. I. Brown receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University, and has developed space-related titles for Monash University's MWorld educational app. The ...

Ava and Elijah learn how decomposition can help create good things, from banana bread to fertilizer. When Elijah discovers Ava’s delicious bread is made from old bananas, they investigate why ...