Was this a 500-year-old fashion statement? | Continue reading
A burly "unicorn" once roamed the Eurasian steppes. | Continue reading
Some 3,700 years ago, a meteor or comet exploded over the Middle East, wiping out human life across a swath of land north of the Dead Sea. | Continue reading
It's long been thought that people inherit mitochondrial DNA exclusively from their mothers. But a provocative new study suggests otherwise. | Continue reading
In a few days, humanity will once again reach out and touch the surface of a foreign world. | Continue reading
Consuming large quantities of carbohydrates and alcohol are the real reason people feel sleepy after a Thanksgiving dinner. | Continue reading
Researchers digging through naval records uncovered a strange and alarming consequence of a massive 1972 solar storm. | Continue reading
Three asteroids are passing by Earth this Saturday, and one will be closer to us than the moon. | Continue reading
Physicists and food historians teamed up to create the ultimate pizza equation. The verdict: find a brick oven. | Continue reading
Long life spans tend to run in families, a phenomenon that's often attributed to people's genes. But a new, large study questions that. | Continue reading
A roving spring of bubbling mud is moving around like a geologic poltergeist in southern California. | Continue reading
Scientists have created the coldest spot in the universe, giving them the opportunity to study the universe's rare fifth form of matter. | Continue reading
Could new findings explain why the universe is made of matter? | Continue reading
The pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females that are able to mate and successfully reproduce | Continue reading
A man in New York developed an extremely rare and fatal brain disorder after he ate squirrel brains, according to a new report of the case. | Continue reading
Tyrannosaurus rex is often mocked for its puny, laughable arms, but new research indicates the fearsome dinosaurs could do a lot more with their little limbs than previously realized. | Continue reading
This ancient inscription from a potter's workshop is the oldest known instance of the full spelling of the word Jerusalem. | Continue reading
One of the first British explorers in the New World got a hefty reward from King Henry VII. | Continue reading
There's something out there that physicists have never seen before, and it's coming up from the bottom of the Earth. Scientists think it's a brand-new particle. | Continue reading
Humans are responsible for some of the wobble in Earth's spin. | Continue reading
Residents of a Greek town woke up to see their beaches covered in a 1,000-foot-long spider web. And experts say it's the result of a summery lovefest. | Continue reading
This extraordinary case shows that organ transplants can not only pass on infectious diseases, but also cancer, at least in some rare cases. | Continue reading
Our brain might come equipped with a noise-canceling feature: one that helps us ignore the sound of our own footsteps or the crunching of our bites. | Continue reading
Researchers have found a way to short-circuit the "immortality switch" that cancer cells use to divide indefinitely. | Continue reading
Data from the Cassini spacecraft revealed that a bizarre, hexagon-shaped vortex has formed above Saturn's north pole as the planet's northern hemisphere enters summer. | Continue reading
The study shows for the first time that ketamine needs to activate opioid receptors in order to have anti-depressant effects. | Continue reading
Searchers have located the wreck of a P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft deep within a glacier in Greenland, more than 70 years after a lost squadron of U.S. warplanes crash-landed on the ice there during World War II. | Continue reading
Drinking alcohol in moderation is more harmful than previously thought, according to a new study that concludes there's no "safe" level of alcohol consumption. | Continue reading
The massive city, which dates to around 4,300 years ago, flourished over several centuries and may have even conquered a neighboring city. | Continue reading
Don't call 'Steve' an aurora. A new study reveals the mysterious ribbon of light often seen over Canada is a new type of phenomenon never studied before. | Continue reading
Weird patches of the sky where the cosmic microwave background radiation looks funny could be signs of long-dead universes, physicist Roger Penrose said. | Continue reading
Using two ancient galactic cores called quasars, researchers have taken a massive step forward toward confirming quantum entanglement — a concept that says particles can be linked no matter how far apart in the universe they may be. | Continue reading
A or B blood can become type O, the universal donor, with the help of gut microbes. | Continue reading
In July, reports of a Russian warship that was discovered by a South Korean company and rumored to contain $132 billion worth of gold briefly made headlines and nudged stock investments. As it turns out, it was very likely a cryptocurrency scam. | Continue reading
Venomous black widow spiders now range farther north than scientists expected, into an area including the most-inhabited parts of Canada. | Continue reading
Unlike other negative traits, anger seems to make people overconfident about their intelligence, a new study suggests. | Continue reading
The capacity of the human brain could be big enough to store everything on the Internet, about 10 times bigger than previously thought. | Continue reading
A Twitter user managed to turn 25 minutes worth of images from the ESA's comet lander into a dramatic short film. | Continue reading
What is screaming at Earth from deep space? Aliens, black holes and supernovae are not out of the question. | Continue reading
A new technique for quantum computing could bust open our whole model of how time moves in the universe. | Continue reading
Insect-sized robots will compete in a DARPA Olympics, to see which designs are best suited for the U.S. government to develop. | Continue reading
Nematodes frozen in Siberian permafrost during the Pleistocene era 42,000 years ago have been brought back to life. | Continue reading
23andMe is sharing genetic data from its more than 5 million customers with the pharmaceutical giant. | Continue reading
Daniel Darkes says a rare gene led to him being the first person ever cured from type 1 diabetes. But experts are skeptical. | Continue reading
Modern men's genes suggest that something peculiar happened 5,000 to 7,000 years ago: Most of the male population across Asia, Europe and Africa seems to have died off, leaving behind just one man for every 17 women. | Continue reading
Gray wolves from the radioactive forbidden zone around the nuclear disaster site of Chernobyl are now roaming out into the rest of the world, raising the possibility they'll spread mutant genes that they may carry far and wide. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that there are 1,000 times more diamonds below the surface of the Earth than was previously thought. | Continue reading
Acid rain is any form of precipitation that contains acidic components, such as sulfuric or nitric acid. Acid rain affects nearly everything: plants, soil, trees, buildings and even statues. | Continue reading