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
An international team of astronomers have pinpointed a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy as the first known source for the ghostly particles. | Continue reading
Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat, and, it seems, they're serious. | Continue reading
A battered diamond confirms a long-held theory: Earth's mantle holds an ocean's worth of water in ringwoodite. | Continue reading
A wildly incorrect 1923 study on Stonehenge led to all kinds of wrong ideas about the monument's history. | Continue reading
A massive operation is underway to rescue 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach who have been trapped in a cave for nearly 2 weeks. But the rescue options are incredibly risky. | Continue reading
Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to cutting edge science, there is now a lab in California that has petri dishes filled with pea-size Neanderthal brains. | Continue reading
As technology advances, prospects for increasing the human life span are seemingly everywhere. But is there a limit to how long humans can live? | Continue reading
The ground under Antarctica's ice is on the move, rising more rapidly than ever recorded. | Continue reading
The universe's missing baryons have been found, and they're floating between the stars in the form of superhot oxygen. | Continue reading
NASA did find two more scraps of evidence about the kind of life that might exist on Mars. Here's what the new research really shows. | Continue reading
Two new papers show that an ancient virus hiding out in the human brain may play a critical role in conscious thought. | Continue reading
The country remains unapologetic for its "scientific research" program in the South Ocean. | Continue reading
The SpaceX and Tesla founder is having a very public meltdown right now, and making some weird claims about a prefix used in some sciences. | Continue reading
How might artificial intelligence achieve consciousness? | Continue reading
It's so small your favorite water bear couldn't even fit inside. | Continue reading
Scientists can't explain why in the world someone would decide to pump out the dangerous gases again. | Continue reading
Pulses of light from infrared lasers can speed up computer operations by a factor of 1 million, and may have opened the door to room-temperature quantum computing. | Continue reading
It's related to HIV, yet you've probably never heard of it. | Continue reading
Observations made a thousand years ago could help modern scientists find the theoretical "Planet Nine" in the outer reaches of the solar system. | Continue reading
The small bit of weapons-grade material, about the weight of a paperclip, was discovered missing after more than a decade. | Continue reading
On April 25, California law enforcement announced the possible capture of a long-sought serial killer. Shortly after, it was reported that police had used public DNA databases to determine his identity. | Continue reading
Hawking's final paper sorts out some of the thorniest problems of the Big Bang and the multiverse. | Continue reading