A wine shop in Roman-era Greece experienced catastrophe and was abandoned around 1,600 years ago. | Continue reading
A new deep-sea mapping project has revealed near-continuous reefs of cold-water corals spanning an area the size of Vermont just off the southeast U.S. coastline. | Continue reading
Engineers intentionally blew up a full-scale prototype of an inflatable space module that could be used in future missions. Watch the big bang unfold here. | Continue reading
Footage of Labord's chameleon in last moments of her short life shows her skin burst into 'chaotic technicolor patterns' — a spectacle never observed in the wild before. | Continue reading
Bigfoot reports across North America have been linked to the presence of black bears, but the research can't account for sightings in Florida. | Continue reading
Satellite images reveal the heat still radiating from the reawakened volcano in Iceland. | Continue reading
Cameras recorded footage in red, blue, green and UV channels simultaneously, with openly available software processing the raw footage and converting it into different kinds of "animal vision," showing us how bees, birds, mice and dogs might see the world. | Continue reading
The DragonFire laser can shoot down drones and costs less than $13 a shot, the UK government claims. | Continue reading
A pair of linked solar flares recently exploded near-simultaneously from sunspots on different hemispheres of our home star, triggering radio blackouts on Earth. | Continue reading
Microscopic water bears can enter a near-invincible 'tun' state when stressed, enabling them to survive in the harshest conditions — including the vacuum of space. Now we know how. | Continue reading
When temperatures drop below freezing, alligators can enter a state of torpor known as brumation, as the water around them solidifies and suspends them in a giant, pond-shaped ice cube. | Continue reading
A study suggests that a yeast tied to tooth decay in young children may be passed to them by their mothers, and this is more likely if the moms have lots of dental plaque. | Continue reading
The most sensitive image of a globular cluster, a tightly packed ball of ancient stars, has revealed a strange radio signal that could be a black hole. | Continue reading
The sudden disappearance of quantum fluctuations inside an atom-thin 2D superconductor has left scientists baffled. | Continue reading
Footage from the nursery cameras of children who died of explained causes suggests that seizures are likely implicated in the tragedies. | Continue reading
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited the threat of nuclear escalation in Ukraine, climate change and disruptive technologies as reasons to keep the clock at 90 seconds to midnight. | Continue reading
Conservators in the U.K. have painstakingly reassembled a piece of Roman armor that was broken into more than 100 pieces. | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered a new species, related to the roly poly bug, that plays an important role in keeping the ocean healthy. | Continue reading
The tomb was said to have been demolished in the 19th century, but a new search has found its location. | Continue reading
Pangolin courtship rituals can last hours and require lots of adjusting for the couple's scaly armor, incredible new footage shot for the PBS series "Big Little Journeys" reveals. | Continue reading
The first full moon of 2024, sometimes nicknamed the Wolf Moon, will rise into winter skies this week, appearing bright and full from Wednesday to Friday. | Continue reading
If people can be allergic to pets, can pets be allergic to people? | Continue reading
It's finally time to look inside the sample-return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Scientists were locked out of the container for months due to a technical malfunction. | Continue reading
Watch the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' annual Doomsday Clock announcement to find out if 2024 is the year we creep closer than ever to a human-made apocalypse. | Continue reading
For only the eighth time in history, scientists detected an asteroid before it made its fiery appearance over Earth. The tiny fireball exploded near Berlin early on Jan. 21. | Continue reading
Timely diagnosis and surgery saved the girl's life, doctors involved in her folded-stomach case reported. | Continue reading
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully bounced a laser off of a cookie-sized mirror on Inida's Vikram moon lander in an experiment that could greatly improve the precision of future moon landings. | Continue reading
The sun's magnetic field could soon slam into Earth's, triggering stunning light displays. | Continue reading
Bottlenose dolphins have been observed trying to kill Antillean manatee calves, and researchers don't fully understand what's going on. | Continue reading
The aircraft can cruise at 120 mph at an altitude of up to 1,500 feet — and it's much quieter than a helicopter. | Continue reading
Save $62 on the Coway Airmega AP-1512HH air purifier at Amazon. | Continue reading
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a bizarre string of dust in the shape of a cat's tail around the nearby juvenile star Beta Pictoris. | Continue reading
Find the perfectly camouflaged animals in all of these photos. | Continue reading
Most robots are preprogrammed to perform specific functions, but Figure's humanoid Figure 01 machine — that learns by watching and corrects its own mistakes — might upend the field. | Continue reading
The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted. | Continue reading
Over 17,000 southern elephant seal pups were found dead on Argentina's Valdés Peninsula in a horrific mass die off attributed to the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus. | Continue reading
Scientists say they have discovered a discrepancy in previous research and suggest megalodons may have been longer and more slender than previously believed — but not everyone is convinced. | Continue reading
Enigmatic octopuses that have been newly discovered in the waters off Costa Rica add to a growing registry of deep-sea dwellers. | Continue reading
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which could change astronomy forever when it comes online this August, looks like a planet all its own in this surreal new photo. | Continue reading
Why does wearing wool clothing sometimes lead to insatiable itching? | Continue reading
Video footage from a new series captures thousands of fire ants building a floating raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool. | Continue reading
Loggerhead shrikes can kill prey bigger than themselves by stabbing and shaking them, before impaling them on sticks to eat later. | Continue reading
Fjords, many of them sculpted over many ice ages, can form all over Earth. So why does Norway have so many? | Continue reading
Exactly how Tylenol — also called acetaminophen or paracetamol — relieves pain continues to evade scientists, but it's clear the drug interacts with one key set of enzymes. | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will have "an absolutely massive amount of infrastructure" in place by the end of the year to prime it for training an artificial general intelligence model. | Continue reading
Japan's SLIM lander successfully reached the lunar surface on Friday, Jan. 19, but problems with its solar cells mean it could be dead on the moon within hours. | Continue reading
A new facial approximation of a man who was crucified in Roman Britain finally "puts a face to his story." | Continue reading
Students who need a laptop with a big screen should jump on this deal from Best Buy — it's been reduced by $250. | Continue reading