Orcas off the coast of Iberia are spending less time hunting and more time exploring new games thanks to the recent recovery of their favorite prey, Atlantic bluefin tuna. | Continue reading
The early Celts may have inherited power through their mother's side, according to an ancient DNA analysis of lavish burials in Europe. | Continue reading
Some of the world's animals produce ear-splitting sounds — and some the loudest out there may come as a surprise. | Continue reading
Wolf 907F recently gave birth to her 10th litter of pups, which researchers say is likely a Yellowstone National Park record. | Continue reading
This 2018 astronaut photo shows the rust-colored waters of Madagascar's Betsiboka River winding through a complex series of mangrove islands. Both the river and islands have been altered in recent years by destructive human practices. | Continue reading
Potentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into the history of the Red Planet and the early solar system, new research suggests. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope peers into NGC 4449, a small galaxy showing explosive star formation that astronomers can't quite explain. | Continue reading
The ancient Egyptians buried their dead at Saqqara for thousands of years. Why was the necropolis so important to them? | Continue reading
Japan has lost contact with its Akatsuki probe, the only spacecraft currently in orbit around Venus. | Continue reading
The U.S. wreck is the grave site of the 79 crew who died when the sub was sunk in battle in 1944. | Continue reading
Volunteers on an environmental clean-up in Kazakhstan uncovered rock art dating to the Bronze or Iron ages, but archaeologists say they already knew about the site. | Continue reading
China's mysterious Shenlong space plane has released an unidentified object in orbit — the seventh such object released in the past six months. The U.S. Space Force is monitoring the situation. | Continue reading
Stars die at different rates depending on how they kick the bucket. | Continue reading
Based on the positioning of the horses, researchers determined that the animals may have been buried as part of a sacrifice. | Continue reading
A reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions may have caused "80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020." | Continue reading
A small modeling study suggests that some patients with severe traumatic brain injury may have recovered had they been kept on life support for longer. | Continue reading
Mutations in "junk DNA" could be responsible for rare genetic cases of intellectual disability, new research hints. | Continue reading
Like whale blubber, oil as a dominant source of energy will gradually be phased out over the next decades. Here's what that transition may look like. | Continue reading
A new proof-of-concept device trapped solar radiation and used it to heat an object to a blistering 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius), raising hopes that steel furnaces could be powered by solar energy. | Continue reading
While the push to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is spurring alternatives to petroleum in other sectors, phasing out plastic, particularly for medical applications, will be very tough. | Continue reading
We may never run out of oil, though known reserves are expected to last for about 50 years, current estimates suggest. | Continue reading
Newly discovered dinosaur — the apex predator of its environment — had a weirdly flat skull compared to its contemporaries, along with ridiculously small arms. | Continue reading
Europe's awakening Campi Flegrei volcano experienced its biggest seismic swarm in 40 years, with 150 earthquakes rocking the region in southern Italy in the evening of May 20. | Continue reading
Manduka has produced an excellent, environmentally-conscious yoga mat offering exceptional comfort and support. | Continue reading
Last year, claims that OpenAI's GPT-4 model beat 90% of trainee lawyers on the bar exam generated a flurry of media hype. But these claims were likely overstated, a new study suggests. | Continue reading
The Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat structure, stands out like an oversized ammonite among the sand dunes of the Sahara desert in Mauritania. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the two earliest, most distant galaxies in the known universe, dating to just 300 million years after the Big Bang. The detection of even earlier galaxies is likely to follow. | Continue reading
Researchers think the artifacts were made during the little-known Kangju state. | Continue reading
Carved out of ivory, the figurine was created during the Upper Paleolithic. | Continue reading
New research shows that a planet spotted around the real-life star 40 Eridani A, famous for hosting Dr. Spock's fictional home world in 'Star Trek', may have been an optical illusion all along. | Continue reading
Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the universe's missing dark matter. But a new theory suggests that not enough of the miniature black holes formed for this to be the case. | Continue reading
Common illnesses spiked in kids as COVID-related social distancing policies were lifted. But experts say this doesn't reflect a long-term change in children's immune systems. | Continue reading
Watch rare footage of deep sea "octopus squid" reveal its bioluminescent photophores as it attacks an underwater camera. | Continue reading
Researchers have excavated over 300 bones from at least three mammoths in an Austrian wine cellar, potentially suggesting they were butchered by humans. | Continue reading
Groundbreaking low-cost ‘loco-manipulators’ transform a humble robot dog into a dexterous bot capable of walking and handling objects simultaneously. | Continue reading
Researchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid Dinkinesh. This is the first 'contact binary' moon ever discovered, scientists say. | Continue reading
The lack of an inner monologue seems linked to a lower ability to recall words and predict their sounds. | Continue reading
Stars that vanish from the sky may be collapsing directly into black holes without going supernova first, a new study of a bizarre binary star system suggests. | Continue reading
A female Pacific footballfish was found dead on an Oregon beach — potentially for the first time ever. It is currently unclear what killed the alien-looking creature and how it was dragged up from the depths. | Continue reading
Icelandic authorities said residents and emergency responders should be ready to evacuate Grindavík at short notice after a new and ongoing eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula. | Continue reading
Most of the periodical cicadas emerging across the eastern U.S. in this year's rare dual emergence event have blood-red eyes, but sightings of blue-eyed variants have recently been reported. | Continue reading
The "cicada-geddon" is the result of the co-emergence of Brood XIII and Brood XIX, with billions of bugs crawling out of the ground across parts of Eastern U.S. | Continue reading
AI chatbots and large language models struggle to convey genuine empathy, and in some cases even encourage toxic belief systems like facism. | Continue reading
Scientists have revealed key properties of radioactive promethium, a rare earth element with poorly understood applications, using a groundbreaking new method. | Continue reading
Cut marks discovered surrounding cancerous lesions on an ancient Egyptian skull suggest that humans were conducting cancer surgery more than 4,000 years ago. | Continue reading
Notable outbreaks of whooping cough, or pertussis, have raised concern in some countries. | Continue reading
Archaeologists determined that a fragment of a sarcophagus hidden beneath a Coptic building's floor once belonged to Ramesses II. | Continue reading
There is "high potential" for hogs that have gone feral in Canada to cross into South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, where the pigs could inflict billions of dollars in damage. | Continue reading