Norway has formally announced its plan to build the world's first tunnel for ships, paving the way for a gigantic 1.7-kilometre (1 mile) passageway to be dug underneath a rocky peninsula in the country's north-west. The Stad Ship Tunnel, which is expected…

Researchers have discovered a new and unexpected force that acts on nanoparticles in a vacuum, allowing them to be pushed around by pure 'nothingness'. Of course, quantum physics is beginning to make it clear that 'nothingness', as we like to think of it…

Scientists may have discovered evidence of the deepest microbial life ever found on the planet, detecting the presence of organic matter in rock fragments spewed up by mud volcanoes near the deepest place on Earth, the Mariana Trench. While researchers are…

Scientists have developed a novel new water droplet system that could help keep our electronics cool and running at top speeds. Even better, it organically targets hot areas. Inspired by the super-hydrophobic wings of cicada insects, which naturally repel…

Researchers think they've solved one of the longest-standing mysteries in the world of science: which, of all the branches on the animal family tree, is actually the oldest? This debate has gone on for more than a century, with scientists historically concluding…

Researchers in the US say they've created a fluid with negative mass in the lab... which is exactly as mind-bending as it sounds. What it means is that, unlike pretty much every other known physical object, when you push this fluid, it accelerates backwards…

Scientists around the world have spent five sleepless nights staring into the abyss, and are hoping they've been rewarded with something that could change physics forever - the first photo of the event horizon at the edge of a black hole. If their efforts…

While at first glance the crackle of electricity and invisible tug of magnetism seem to be fairly different things, for about 150 years scientists have accepted that they're both fundamentally aspects of the same phenomenon. But there has been a mystery attached…