"The most acidic natural inland waters are the lakes that lie in the craters of volcanoes, like Kawah Ijen in Indonesia. These lakes are so rich in sulfuric acid that they may have a pH as low as 0.1. To put this in context, fresh battery acid has a pH of about 0.7. " | Continue reading
A new federal order requires that U.S. dairies provide milk samples to the USDA so the agency can test the milk for bird flu prior to pasteurization. | Continue reading
The 6-year-old boy found the rock and then didn't tell anyone for three years. But a new examination reveals it was made by some of the last Neanderthals. | Continue reading
A new laboratory study in mice suggests that primates like humans evolved large brains with a helping hand from microbes that live in the gut. | Continue reading
The Space Launch System blasts off from its Florida launchpad. | Continue reading
"Budget overruns, bureaucratic malfeasance, congressional oversight, review-board reckonings, the whole process of rethinking how to test a space telescope from the ground up: Webb had survived them all. One other factor, however, continued to create havoc with the budget and the … | Continue reading
The astronaut and MIT engineer's monumental milestone was marred by misogyny: "Instead of being on cloud nine, I’m crying in my seat." | Continue reading
'Apex,' one of the most complete stegosaurus fossils ever found, is on display at the American Museum of Natural History. | Continue reading
Scientists hope the body of a pregnant great white shark killed on a drumline will reveal some of the mysteries of the species' reproduction. | Continue reading
The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a stretch of southern English coastline peppered with living mounds of limestone that hide the remains of cypress trees from the late Jurassic period. | Continue reading
The simulations will be used by astronomers to test the standard model of cosmology. | Continue reading
Spoon-like metal objects attached to Roman-era belts may represent drug dosing equipment, researchers suggest. | Continue reading
Earthworms commonly come out when it's wet outside, but why? | Continue reading
A magnitude 7 earthquake struck off the coast of Petrolia, California on Thursday (Dec. 5), triggering a tsunami warning in the Pacific ocean. | Continue reading
A new laboratory study pinpoints a way H5N1 could evolve to spread from person to person. | Continue reading
The strange structures could serve as early warning signs of life-threatening sinkholes, scientists say. | Continue reading
An analysis of research on most known species around the world finds climate change puts many species at risk of extinction, and the risk increases with more global warming. | Continue reading
Scientists have designed special immune cells that protect transplanted pancreatic cells from attack in mice. | Continue reading
An artist's illustration of primordial black holes. | Continue reading
The hydrogen fuel tank of a Toyota vehicle on display. | Continue reading
Common colds and the flu differ in many ways, including their causes, some of their symptoms and their treatments. | Continue reading
Running massive AI models locally on smartphones or laptops may be possible after a new compression algorithm trims down their size — meaning your data never leaves your device. The catch is that it might drain your battery in an hour. | Continue reading
An extremely rare gold coin featuring Brutus, who helped spearhead Julius Caesar's assassination, is up for auction in December. | Continue reading
Patients with acromegaly make too much growth hormone, which causes them to grow disproportionately large bones, organs and tissues. | Continue reading
The Geminid meteor shower is upon us. Up to 120 "shooting stars" per hour will rain down on Earth during the shower's peak on Dec. 13 and 14, but a near-full moon may hamper viewing. | Continue reading
Radioisotopes in the bones of an 18-month-old boy who lived almost 13,000 years ago indicate that his mother ate mostly mammoths. | Continue reading
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Asteroid C0WEPC5 entered Earth's atmosphere at 1:15 a.m. local time on Dec. 4 over northeastern Siberia. | Continue reading
Between 67 and 143 people in the DRC have died of an unknown, flu-like disease, officials have said. | Continue reading
At least 15 human skulls at a Neolithic site in Italy may represent the group's collective ancestors, although archaeologists aren't certain. | Continue reading
Space weather experts warn that solar activity will persist or even increase after solar maximum has ended and we enter a phase of the solar cycle dubbed the "battle zone." | Continue reading
New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth. | Continue reading
A "bizarre" E-shaped aurora was recently photographed dancing in the sky above Alaska. The unusual light show was caused by rare black auroras, a.k.a. anti-auroras, which catapult charged particles from the sun back out of Earth's atmosphere and into space. | Continue reading
A polar bear stands on floating sea ice in the Arctic. The bears rely on sea ice to move throughout their hunting grounds. | Continue reading
If this colossal solar storm hit our technologically advanced world the effects would have been devastating. | Continue reading
A chance discovery by researchers could drastically lower the energy needed for next-generation memory technologies. | Continue reading
A bacterial infection that rarely occurs in the United States hit a woman in Maryland after she cleaned her home aquarium. | Continue reading
The secretary bird photograph was among the winners of the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Prize. | Continue reading
Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds. | Continue reading
James Webb Space Telescope image of the stellar nursery N79 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. | Continue reading
Researchers stimulated the vagus nerve in healthy volunteers and showed it triggered blood clot formation, which they say could be used to prevent blood loss after surgery. | Continue reading
Researchers say the finds are from aristocratic burials between the fourth and sixth centuries. | Continue reading
An office worker in Beijing developed a parasitic infection that caused worms to grow under her right eyelid. | Continue reading
The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter will be livestreamed for everyone to see. | Continue reading
Excess energy from wireless 6G networks could be harvested by a copper coil and the human body. | Continue reading
A 2014 satellite photo of the Sivash region shows off the kaleidoscopic colors of a series of shallow, hypersaline lagoons — each filled with a different kind of algae. | Continue reading
Scientists have been searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life for decades. So, where are all the aliens? Here are 12 intriguing theories ... | Continue reading
A favorite among nature enthusiasts, the Celestron Nature DX ED 12x50 is reduced at Amazon for Cyber Monday — but you'll need to be quick to avoid missing out! | Continue reading