Scientists have moved a step closer to understanding the basis of the hallucinations and delusions that characterize schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. | Continue reading
An object that smashed through a Florida home was part of a pallet jettisoned from the International Space Station along with 5,800 pounds of aging batteries back in March 2021. | Continue reading
NASA's plan to retrieve as many as 30 geological samples from Mars is getting a major rewrite, agency officials said on Monday. The initial plan, which would not return the samples to Earth until 2040, was deemed "too expensive" and "unacceptably too long." | Continue reading
Watch a female octopus drag a male around during sex in rare footage captured off the Indonesian island of Bunaken. | Continue reading
The explosive green 'devil comet' 12P/ Pons-Brooks is about to reach its closest point to the sun. Here's how to see the rare visitor at its best and brightest. | Continue reading
A new antibody drug for Parkinson's disease appears to slow the progression of its movement-related symptoms, at least in some patients. | Continue reading
Orcas that attack and sink boats in southwestern Europe have been spotted circling a vessel in Spain, hundreds of miles from where they should currently be. And scientists can't explain why. | Continue reading
During the recent total solar eclipse on April 8, scientists and other observers spotted some strange things in the sky and on the ground. Here are some of our favorites. | Continue reading
An AI-driven supercomputer dubbed Earth's 'digital twin' could help us avoid the worst impacts of climate catastrophes headed our way. | Continue reading
Tombaugh Regio — the large, pale heart that dominates Pluto's terrain — is made of nitrogen ice that accumulated after a huge, slow-motion impact, new research suggests. | Continue reading
Using pulse current charging, or a constant current divided with a few short breaks, lithium-ion batteries hold up better over hundreds of charging cycles and can last twice as long. | Continue reading
Astronomers found the most massive stellar-mass black hole in the galaxy after spotting a star "wobbling" nearby. The baby monster is the 2nd-closest black hole to Earth ever detected. | Continue reading
The 2,000-foot-wide asteroid 2013 NK4 just made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history, sailing by at about eight lunar distances. You can still see the massive rock with a backyard telescope. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 prompted a surge in young people undergoing sterilization procedures, especially women. | Continue reading
Want to experience totality again? Here are the next seven total solar eclipses across the world, from Alaska to Australia. | Continue reading
This camera can generate clips of breathtakingly quick processes — and could help scientists create ultrafast magnetic memory and pioneering ultrasonic medical treatments. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have discovered lavish and grisly burials the world over. | Continue reading
"For the first time, we have physical evidence showing us what was happening in the moon's interior during this critical stage of its evolution, and that's really exciting." | Continue reading
Identifying the most effective cancer treatment for a given patient from the get-go can help improve outcomes. | Continue reading
Ripples in space-time point to the merger of a neutron star with another mystery object. The object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm. | Continue reading
The landscape features in the dreamtime stories of Australia's Indigenous people. | Continue reading
This exciting field of computer science focuses on technologies that mimic human intelligence — with AI systems becoming way more prevalent in recent years. | Continue reading
In this excerpt from the beautiful book "Rewild the World at Bedtime" by Emily Hawkins and illustrator by Ella Beech, we discover how one of Mozambique's most diverse national parks recovered from the devastating effects of war. | Continue reading
They act kind of like drugs, but they aren't regulated like them. | Continue reading
Fiery pink towers could be seen erupting from the sun during the total solar eclipse on April 8. What are they? | Continue reading
Are snorers immune to the sounds of their own snores? | Continue reading
If we continue on our current trajectory, the sixth mass extinction is inevitable and the times we're living through now will be part of that geological period. | Continue reading
Juvenile bull shark numbers have significantly increased in Mobile Bay, Alabama, as waters warm — but swimmers don't need to worry, researchers say. | Continue reading
Geneticists have critiqued a study suggesting extinct Javan tigers are still alive, but the search is just beginning. | Continue reading
AI researchers found they could dupe an AI chatbot into giving a potentially dangerous response to a question by feeding it a huge amount of data it learned from queries made mid-conversation. | Continue reading
After the Great North American Eclipse comes a long "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse that can be seen in some iconic destinations. | Continue reading
There are many mysteries surrounding Europe's hunter-gatherers, but farming played a role in their demise. | Continue reading
Researchers say they've identified a kind of fat that plays a major role in aging and can be controlled with short-term exercise. | Continue reading
In a rare observation, scientists found a baby star "sneezing" gas, dust and magnetic energy out of its disk. This behavior could help solve a longstanding mystery about how stars form without tearing themselves apart. | Continue reading
A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age. | Continue reading
Archaeologists in Poland have found the 300-year-old remains of a man who had a prosthetic that helped him live with a condition called cleft palate. | Continue reading
A large extinction in the midst of the expansion of life during the Cambrian period was caused by the tectonics of a supercontinent, new research argues. | Continue reading
Excavations near Crowland Abbey in eastern England have unearthed a prehistoric henge that may have become a "holy island" for Christian hermits in the early medieval period. | Continue reading
The creators of the Taichi chiplet claim it's more energy-efficient and scalable than other photonic components and can be used to train superhuman AI models in the future. | Continue reading
Scientists using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument have unveiled the largest 3D map of the universe ever. The results suggest that dark energy, the mysterious force pulling the universe apart, may be weakening, challenging prevailing theories of cosmology. | Continue reading
Seen in 2022, a gamma-ray burst nicknamed the BOAT is believed to be the brightest explosion ever witnessed by humanity. But the James Webb Telescope's search for its origins has only thrown up more questions. | Continue reading
New data suggest that exoplanet WASP-76 b could harbor a massive, rainbow-colored light show known as a "glory." Until now, this phenomenon has been seen only within our solar system. | Continue reading
A newly discovered asteroid got within 12,000 miles of Earth on a harrowing, ultra-close approach today. The space rock won't return for 70 years. | Continue reading
Strange radio signals coming from a magnetar that "woke up" after more than a decade of radio silence cannot be explained by our current understanding of the universe's strongest magnets, hinting at a puzzling new phenomenon. | Continue reading
Doctors described a case of a rare infection called ocular pentastomiasis, which is caused by a parasite known to lay its eggs in snakes. | Continue reading
An expedition to the Salas y Gómez Ridge off Rapa Nui in the Pacific Ocean documented 160 species that were not previously known to inhabit the region, including 50 that are new to science. | Continue reading
Short, stumpy robots learned how to play soccer — and improved their skills dramatically thanks to a new AI training technique that combines several pre-existing methods. | Continue reading
Experts explain what the expected FDA ban on formaldehyde in hair-straightening products really means for everyday Americans. | Continue reading