Ben Turner

Scientists say excessive water use is to blame, with 74% of diverted lakewater being used for unsustainable agricultural practices

Nuclear fusion, lab-simulated wormholes, and ramming distant asteroids, here are the biggest and best physics stories of the year.

Metallic spheres zooming past military jets, mysterious signals inside the world's largest telescope, and theories on why we have yet to make contact.

The infamous barbarian's most devastating incursions took place in years with extremely dry summers.

The detector would search for ripples in the fabric of space-time left in the spacecraft's wake.

The storm is classed as a G1 storm, so is expected to be fairly mild.

The disease, called lymphatic filariasis, can lead to severe swelling around the body, as well as physical disabilities.

The zoo is now being investigated for a breach of animal rights protections.

Useful, cost-effective nuclear fusion remains a distant dream, despite a small step in the right direction from the government's NIF reactor.

The breakthrough marks the first time that the core of a fusion reactor has given out more energy than it has taken in, but significant obstacles still need to be overcome.

The capsule intentionally skipped like a stone off the atmosphere to make its reentry easier.

The planet 55 Cancri e, also known as the "hell planet," appears to have been dragged closer to its sun's equator due to a gravitational anomaly.

Radioactive isotopes were found to produce amino acids inside carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.

The time-flipped photon can't be used to restage "Back to the Future," but it could help us figure out some of the universe's most mysterious phenomena.

Quantum experiment conducted on Google's Sycamore 2 computer transferred data across two simulated black holes, adding weight to the holographic principle of the universe

The hole could beam solar material outwards at speeds up to 1.8 million mph (2.9 million km/h)

The minerals were found inside a slice of the El Ali meteorite, which was found in Somalia in 2020.

Octopus brains may have grown smart from an enormous diversity of microRNAs that let them grow multiple types of brain cells.

The eruption is so far not threatening downhill communities or affecting flights

In an epic tug-of-war, it took the British angler 25 minutes to haul the monster fish, nicknamed The Carrot, to land.

By using a chain of atoms to simulate a black hole's event horizon, researchers have shown that Hawking radiation may exist just as the late physicist described.

The rock is 4.6 billion years old, meaning it was around at the beginning of the solar system

The uncrewed X-37B space plane touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Station on Nov. 12 having spent a record 908 days in orbit

The $20bn rocket launches on its fourth attempt, a milestone in the Artemis program that will eventually carry astronauts to the moon.

NASA engineers have declared the rocket fit to fly after Hurricane Nicole