Science Illustrated

USD 5 for 27 minutes in the air – that was the power cost, when the world’s largest electric aircraft took off for the first time.

The brain is not destined to become less sharp with age – it has different capacities in different phases of life. Danish neuroscientist Troels Wesenberg Kjær shares his best tips concerning optimum brain development throughout life.

A lower intake of a popular food appears to reduce the risk of dementia and delay the diagnosis by several years.

When Alexander Sjöstrand reached the lowest level of the cave, he came across something he had certainly not expected to find.

Even our largest telescopes have not detected any evidence of life in space. Professor Heidi Jo Newberg has a simple, yet highly unorthodox solution that could allow us to photograph habitable exoplanets.

Two young astrophysicists have made a truly remarkable discovery that brings us one step closer to solving a 100-year-old mystery.

At age 9, your brain is undergoing significant changes, but that is just the first of four major shifts in brain function.

Chinese researchers have designed the closest thing we have to a time machine. It can make decades fly by in a matter of hours, and soon, it may be put to the ultimate test.

One single experience in childhood might leave a lasting mark on your brain, according to researchers behind a new mouse study.

In just four days, a breakthrough was achieved in a case that has baffled plant researchers for over a century.

Even the world’s smallest dog has fierce ancestors. Find your own dog on the list.

There was something about both its appearance and behaviour that made the researchers think of something quite specific.

You will not get another chance to witness something of this calibre until 2048. But if you want to make the most of it, it is not enough just to look up, astrophysicist Tina Ibsen explains.

Astronomers from around the world watched the rare event unfold, but the real surprise was yet to come.

Avian flu is currently spreading across species all over the world – a development that beats anything virologist Ian Brown ever saw before. Get his assessment of how close we are to an epidemic among humans.

The most explosive phenomenon in the universe is equivalent to 16.8 solar masses converted into energy.