A physicist has calculated the probability that four widely believed conspiracy theories could have lasted this long without being uncovered. And - mathematically speaking - it's not looking good for Moon-landing deniers or anti-vaccers.

Aliens...?

For the first time, scientists have observed the distinct pattern of neuronal firing that occurs during a bowel movement – and it's not all in your head.

It's not just the environment that will suffer.

No food straddles the line between fruit and vegetable more famously than the tomato.

The Universe is big, and strange, and there's a lot of stuff out there that works in mysterious ways. Astronomers spend their time trying to understand these workings so they can figure out the Big Questions: Who we are. If we're alone. Where the U

If there's a race to clean up the world's oceans, the European Union wants to come first.

Astronomers have use the VLT Survey Telescope to snap the sharpest ever picture of the Tarantula Nebula, the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighbourhood

In the mountains of Chile sits the site of what will become the largest optical telescope in the world. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will have a primary mirror made up of almost 800 individual segments and will be capable of collecting more light than…

Last month, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that Australia would be allocating over $500 million Australian dollars (or $379 million USD) in a last-ditch attempt to save the Great Barrier Reef.

In 2015, a psychologist in Italy figured out how to induce a drug-free altered state of consciousness by asking 20 volunteers to sit and stare into each other's eyes for 10 minutes straight.

Powering cold, hard mechanics with muscle tissue is a promising idea that so far hasn't delivered awe-inspiring results.

By Earth's standards, you could hardly imagine a stranger world than frigid, tiny Pluto. It resides in the far corner of the Solar System at an average of about 4 billion miles from the sun.

Dark matter, or at least a portion of it, could be carrying an incredibly weak electrical force - equal to about a millionth of an electron's charge. That's according to data from the Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionisation Signa

For the past two years, NASA's Juno probe has studied planet Jupiter like no spacecraft before it.

On the plus side, more sleep?

Using the whole Solar System as a lab, and our most advanced time-keeping instruments for equipment, scientists have helped to verify the 'Einstein elevator' hypothesis – one of the central components of his general theory of relativity.

Sad.

NASA's New Horizons probe - the same one that gave us stunning photos of Pluto - has just woken up, approximately 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from home.

Estimated cost of geoengineering technology to fight climate change has plunged since a 2011 analysis.