Cosmos

Collaboration reveals famous ancient vase was not made the way the catalogues say

A population analysis finds no evidence to support current theories of post-menopausal survival.

Two of history’s greatest physicists argued for decades over one of the deepest mysteries of quantum mechanics. Today, their successors are opening new fronts in the battle to understand ‘spooky action at a distance’

Novel experiment finds some microbes are better adapted to space travel than others.

Tectonic plates, extreme weather, magma movements and even the effects of climate change can all play a role in triggering volcanic eruptions

“Mergeable nervous systems” can create flexible, self-adapting robots. Michael Lucy reports.

Australian nuclear scientists are finding fresh ways to uncover the secrets of space

There’s a simple relationship between the angle of the arms of a spiral galaxy and the mass of the black hole at the galaxy’s heart

Huge, highly excited atoms may give off flashes of light when hit by a gravitational wave.