Why do dogs' paws smell like corn chips? A veterinarian explains the cause of this olfactory offense. | Continue reading
A common food dye can turn the skin of living mice transparent, but we don't yet know if it'll work in humans. | Continue reading
The silver coin discoveries date to the Roman Republic and are from the island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia. | Continue reading
New James Webb Space Telescope results have revealed that there may not be a Hubble tension after all. But contradictions within the findings point to a deeper mystery. | Continue reading
A flowery passage in a 6,000-year-old Hindu text may be the earliest known reference to a solar eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun's "magic arts to vanish." | Continue reading
Grapefruit and grapefruit juice can affect the amount of medication that reaches the bloodstream. But why? | Continue reading
On Wednesday (Sept. 4), astronomers spotted a never-before-seen asteroid, 2024 RW1, around eight hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere. The "harmless" space rock quickly burned up as predicted, creating a bright green streak across the night sky before spectacularly explodin … | Continue reading
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval house that contained even older gold coins, which date to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great. | Continue reading
Scientists have just theorized how to connect quantum processors over vast distances to form a giant quantum computing network that acts as a single machine. | Continue reading
Viking Age skeletons in Norway were much more likely to bear signs of lethal violence than those in Denmark, possibly because society in Norway was less stratified and centralized. | Continue reading
A previously unrecognized type of immune cell may be responsible for the itchy feeling brought on by bug bites and other allergic reactions. | Continue reading
A NASA spacecraft erected a large, foil solar sail in orbit around Earth last week, after a failed attempt days earlier. However, subsequent observations of the spacecraft show it is "tumbling or wobbling" through space, which may have also impacted its trajectory around our plan … | Continue reading
About 40% of cats play fetch with their owners, but it's not clear why. | Continue reading
A helium reservoir with the highest concentrations ever seen could hold enough of the gas to address critical shortages in the U.S. affecting tech, medicine and space exploration. | Continue reading
Orcas off the coasts of Spain and Portugal may be using boats as targets to practice hunting their favorite food, Atlantic bluefin tuna. | Continue reading
Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered 10 kurgans, or burial mounds, dating to the Middle Ages, and some have "mustaches." | Continue reading
Scientists in China have developed a tensor processing unit (TPU) that uses carbon-based transistors instead of silicon – and they say it's extremely energy efficient. | Continue reading
Tarantulas' hairy bodies protect against the scavenging, spider-eating army ants that clean their nests, scientists say. | Continue reading
New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it's time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses. | Continue reading
The mapping of 50,000 mysterious "knots" in the human genome may someday lead to the development of new cancer drugs, researchers say. | Continue reading
Archaeologists remain uncertain about the purpose of these head cones, but it appears that ancient Egyptians associated them with "sensuality, sexuality and related notions." | Continue reading
The fort would have contained multiple buildings and was built sometime between the first and third centuries. | Continue reading
For the first time, researchers have linked the amount of silver being buried in marine sediments to human-made climate change. | Continue reading
Kamikaze termites in French Guiana carry highly volatile toxic "rucksacks" that are ready to be deployed in an instant, when the termite needs to defend its colony. | Continue reading
The average number of visible dark patches on the sun's surface in August was higher than any other month since September 2001. The final count was also more than twice as high as experts initially predicted it would be, demonstrating once again that the current solar maximum wil … | Continue reading
The Aviron Strong Series Rower makes rowing fun, but can this beast of a machine keep us coming back for more? | Continue reading
IQM's quantum processor achieved 99.9% fidelity in recent tests, the company says. Here's what that actually means. | Continue reading
A 2012 satellite photo captured an unusual "double rainbow" glory appearing next to an unconnected chain of rare vortices in the clouds above Mexico's Guadalupe Island. | Continue reading
A pregnant porbeagle shark is believed to have been eaten by a great white, with the larger predator swallowing its tracking device off the coast of Bermuda, scientists report. | Continue reading
Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets. | Continue reading
Saturn will enter opposition on Sept. 7 and 8, orbiting on the opposite side of Earth as the sun. Here's everything you need to know to spot Saturn at its peak size and brightness this week. | Continue reading
The battery storage system will be able to store 8,500 megawatt-hours of energy — which is 130 million times the capacity of the best laptops today. | Continue reading
'The bottom line is, there is no crisis in terms of the standard model of cosmology. | Continue reading
Drinking can change the brain in a way that makes people more likely to speak their mind, but the effects aren't always straightforward. | Continue reading
Although no aliens were found, the results have helped constrain expectations of possible alien transmitter power. | Continue reading
It's unclear why people chose to live in the caves, but DNA is shedding light on their lives. | Continue reading
The flight tested the vehicle's landing gear and roll damper for improved handling. | Continue reading
Defense systems found in all complex life, including the human body, came from primeval microbes known as 'Asgards.' | Continue reading
NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother’. | Continue reading
Heat triggers a series of complex chemical reactions that change the color, flavor and texture of meat. | Continue reading
The secrets of black holes and dark matter could lie before the Big Bang, a new study of "bouncing" cosmology hints. | Continue reading
A mysterious ring invisible at all wavelengths except radio could be a trace of a dramatically unstable star shedding its skin. | Continue reading
HMS Hawke sank after an explosion caused by an enemy torpedo, with the loss of more than 500 of its crew. | Continue reading
Thorny devils have a plethora of defenses against predators, including a fake head and a weird jerky walk. | Continue reading
From the moment of the Big Bang, everything in the universe has kept moving, but why is that? | Continue reading
The photos will be displayed in October at London's Natural History Museum. | Continue reading
When two top predatory animals come into contact, anything can happen. One eating the other whole, though, is certainly unexpected. | Continue reading
The trigger behind summertime headaches may not be heat itself, but all of the things that come along with it, an expert said. | Continue reading