The Doctor Who spin-off focuses on the fictional military organisation (UNIT stands for Unified Intelligence Taskforce) run ...

I will explain what property-based testing (PBT) is and how it solves these problems. What is property-based testing (PBT)? At a very high level, it injects thousands of random values into ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Mary is an associate editor covering technology, culture and everything in between. She recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as an editor at The ...

Do you believe that life exists on other planets? Well, here's an even more mysterious idea: Have you ever considered that there might have been another civilisation with advanced technology on planet ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Phones are an integral part of our lives, and ensuring they have a stable internet connection is crucial. Everyone has a carrier they use. Sometimes that connection may not be as reliable as we hope.

These "nucleation" events are the first steps toward freezing. What they found was surprising: silicon and sulphur, elements often assumed to be present in the core, actually slow down the freezing ...

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new constraint on the chemistry of Earth's core, by showing how it was able to ...

When studying rare earth elements, noticing a violet glow in the lab used to be a sign for scientists that something intriguing lay on the other side of an impenetrable wall. That glow belonged to ...