The AsapSCIENCE video considers a 1 megaton bomb, which is 80 times larger than the bomb detonated over Hiroshima, but much smaller than many modern nuclear weapons. For a bomb that size, people up to ...

The Denisovans are an extinct relative of modern humans that also share a common ancestor with Neanderthals.

Stem cells are a special type of cell found in multicellular organisms, such as plants and animals, which are yet to develop traits that distinguish specific tissues from one another.

Climate change is a significant, long-term shift in weather patterns that can refer to one place or the planet as a whole.

Mars is the fourth planet that orbits the Sun in our Solar System. Circling at an average distance of approximately 229 million kilometres (around 142 million miles) from the Sun, it sits between the ...

Consciousness is what allows you to think, remember, and feel things. The term can refer to someone's actual experience of the world - their thoughts, sensations, and decision making - as well as the ...

s especially interested in the natural world and the workings of the human body. In her years at ScienceAlert, Carly has written extensively on topics such as evolution, the brain, climate change, ...

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of mostly land-based animals that are related to today's reptiles and birds. In fact, while dinosaurs are commonly seen as extinct and known only by their fossils, ...

Sometimes referred to as the 'fifth state of matter', a Bose-Einstein Condensate is a state of matter created when particles, called bosons, are cooled to near absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius, ...

Anthropogenic global warming is a theory explaining today's long-term increase in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere as an effect of human industry and agriculture.

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Hawking radiation describes hypothetical particles formed by a black hole's boundary. This radiation implies black holes have temperatures that are inversely proportional to their mass. Putting it ...