Today, China successfully launched its most ambitious mission to the Moon to date — this one designed to bring a handful of lunar rocks back to Earth before the end of the year. If successful, it’ll be the first time in nearly half a century that dirt from the Moon […]
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2020 Mercedes-Benz GLS450 long-term review: Urban living
Confined to one postcode in a car that has its own, James explores the urban skill set of the big GLS.
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Porsche Taycan Sets Guinness Record for Longest Drift in an Electric Car
Porsche driving instructor Dennis Retera drifted a Taycan for nearly an hour, going sideways for 26.2 miles.
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Black Friday home gym deals: Save on treadmills, activewear and kettlebells
Get hundreds of dollars off all the gear you need to outfit your own home gym, or someone else’s.
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Best Android VPNs for 2020
These are the best virtual private networks for protecting your privacy on your Android mobile device.
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One of the Building Blocks of Life Can Form in the Harsh Environment of Deep Space Itself. No Star Required
In many ways, stars are the engines of creation. Their energy drives a whole host of processes necessary for life. Scientists thought that stellar radiation is needed to create compounds like the amino acid glycine, one of the building blocks of life.
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‘Death has become a big business.’ Elaborate coffins illuminate hidden history of ancient Egypt
Last week, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities announced a spectacular find. More than 100 elaborately decorated wooden coffins, many containing intact human mummies, were unearthed at the Saqqara necropolis, a burial complex covering 160 square kilometers and located 20 kilometers south of Cairo. The most recent finds date back roughly […]
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Californian cave artists may have used hallucinogens, find reveals
With recurring zigzags, spirals, and other simple geometric patterns, ancient rock art is sometimes surprisingly similar across the globe. One hypothesis is that the artists were all using psychoactive compounds, which nudged the brain toward certain patterns. Now, a new find from a roughly 500-year-old cave used by Native Americans […]