Archaeologists in Campeche, Mexico, have found an underground structure beneath a Maya ball court, as well as offerings on top of a Maya pyramid at another site. | Continue reading
To mark its second anniversary of operations, James Webb Space Telescope scientists share a stunning view of the Penguin and Egg galaxies as they slowly collide. | Continue reading
Discovered inside a cave, the ivory statuette depicts a human and a lion. | Continue reading
The drug, lenacapavir, provided better protection than other preventive medications. | Continue reading
Panda ants are actually wasps masquerading as an adorable ant, with black and white females possessing stingers half as long as their entire bodies. | Continue reading
Friendship is a key component of human social relationships. Is this also true for animals? | Continue reading
The case against MSG began with a letter to the editor back in the 1960s. But was there any truth to it? | Continue reading
An anesthesiologist contracted at various Oregon health care facilities did not practice proper infection control, posing a risk to patients. | Continue reading
Seven strangely-behaving stars in the Milky Way's Omega Centauri cluster may be under the influence of an extremely rare type of black hole, new research suggests. | Continue reading
Scientists have bred mice that are just like us — at least in terms of their immune systems. | Continue reading
A new simulation of the shaking from a magnitude 7.8 south San Andreas earthquake suggests that Los Angeles might avoid a worst-case scenario. | Continue reading
Save almost 25% on the Beats Studio Plus running headphones with AirPods-like features in this early Prime Day earbuds deal, that's a saving of $40. | Continue reading
Dozens of long-finned pilot whales have beached and died on Sanday in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, in the biggest mass stranding the country has seen since 1995. | Continue reading
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have now excavated eight ancient stone circles that likely served as homes to people more than 7,000 years ago. | Continue reading
Norway's photogenic "Dragon's Eye" likely formed around 20,000 years ago, when all of Scandinavia sat beneath an enormous mass of ice called the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet. | Continue reading
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang. | Continue reading
The more people use tools like ChatGPT, the more likely they are to think they are conscious, which will carry ramifications for legal and ethical approaches to AI. | Continue reading
Honey owes its long shelf-life to its makers, but it doesn't always last forever. | Continue reading
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A new device may someday soon allow astronauts to drink purified water made from their filtered pee during spacewalks. | Continue reading
By blowing atoms up to several hundred times their size, researchers have been able to make another type of oddly-behaving time crystal. | Continue reading
The fortification was built to corral the slave-revolt leader and his forces. | Continue reading
The Milky Way is warped, possibly as the result of a collision with another galaxy billions of years ago. Studying this warp could reveal more about the structure of our galaxy's hidden matter. | Continue reading
The writing is only the second confirmed inscription whose attribution connects to Muhammad. | Continue reading
Scientists are working to develop a new filler for period products that they say could help prevent leaks. | Continue reading
Modern human DNA may have made up a surprisingly large amount of the Neanderthal genome, a new study finds. | Continue reading
Save $900 in this camera deal ahead of Prime Day — we loved the Canon EOS R5 when we reviewed it, and now it's reduced by 23% across various retailers. | Continue reading
Prime Day 2024 is nearly here and we've found the best science kit discounts on a range of products that'll save you money. | Continue reading
New seismic data show that a helium reservoir discovered in February in northern Minnesota is larger than initial estimates indicated, inching the project closer to commercial extraction. | Continue reading
The physicist César Lattes, who is honored today (July 11) in a Google Doodle, is famous across Latin America for his discovery of the pion — a subatomic particle produced by shockwaves from exploding stars. | Continue reading
Physicists have struggled to understand the nature of time since the field began. But a new theoretical study suggests time could be an illusion woven at the quantum level. | Continue reading
In a breakthrough that could boost de-extinction efforts, scientists have determined the 3D structure of a woolly mammoth's genome from a 52,000-year-old piece of freeze-dried skin. | Continue reading
A newly identified hormone dramatically strengthens bones in lab studies and could eventually lead to new treatments for fractures and osteoporosis. | Continue reading
Save over $300 with this huge Walmart deal on the Garmin Forerunner 945 smartwatch. | Continue reading
Get a massive 40% off the HoMedics TotalClean Deluxe 5-in-1 air purifier at Walmart. | Continue reading
We named it 'Best DSLR' for wildlife and astrophotography, grab the Nikon D850 while it's at its lowest ever price in the run up to Prime Day. | Continue reading
The 56-qubit H2-1 computer has broken the previous record in the 'quantum supremacy' benchmark first set by Google in 2019. | Continue reading
In a warmer world, every El Niño could look like today's most extreme events. | Continue reading
New photos from the James Webb Space Telescope show off the bewitching beauty of the warped quasar RX J1131-1231, which is adorned with four bright spots birthed by mind-bending space-time trickery. | Continue reading
Here's the science behind 20 animal tongues. | Continue reading
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams say they are confident they will be able to return soon, but the exact date of their journey home remains unknown. | Continue reading
Project seeks to protect ancient tree lineages that have survived from a time before Earth’s continents broke apart. | Continue reading
Colorado health officials have confirmed a human case of plague in the state. | Continue reading
Microsoft's VALL-E 2 can convincingly recreate human voices using just a few seconds of audio, its creators claim. | Continue reading
Four volunteers exited a mock Mars habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center on July 6, bringing the agency's first year-long simulated Red Planet mission to an end. | Continue reading
A Bronze and Iron Age burial ground for children that was unearthed in Norway was used for 600 years, and archaeologists aren't sure why. | Continue reading
New theoretical research finds that it's impossible to form a black hole with the energy of light particles alone, poking a hole in Einstein's theory of general relativity. | Continue reading
Located 50 light-years from Earth, the beady-eyed exoplanet LHS 1140 b could be a perfect candidate for discovering liquid water outside the solar system, new research suggests. | Continue reading