MIS-C, a rare post-COVID inflammatory syndrome in children, may be triggered when the immune system mistakes its own proteins for those of the virus. | Continue reading
Scientists sequenced the largest known animal genome in a species of lungfish — ancient fish that breathe air. | Continue reading
A 'rule-breaking' sunspot has fired off an extremely powerful X-class solar flare, launching a CME toward Earth that could bring vibrant weekend auroras. | Continue reading
Will Suunto's Race push your sporting performance and help you reach personal bests like they claim? We think so. | Continue reading
The large language model gets medical calls wrong more often than not. | Continue reading
Geological evidence of the transition when Earth was plunged into a planetary-wide deep-freeze discovered in ancient Scottish rocks. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have found the skeletons of a man and a woman, along with their valuables, in a room in Pompeii. | Continue reading
Following the WHO's declaration that the mpox outbreak in Africa is a global health emergency, Sweden reported its first case of a deadlier clade of the virus. | Continue reading
Scientists are testing a "genetically enhanced bacteriophage cocktail" as a treatment for urinary tract infections. | Continue reading
The moon was once thousands of miles farther away than it is now, and Earth's days were 2.2 hours longer, a new study finds. | Continue reading
More than 1,500 medieval silver coins were unearthed in the Black Forest region of Germany. | Continue reading
Scientists have uncovered the "genetic fingerprint" of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impactor, potentially revealing the fateful rock's origins in the outer reaches of our solar system. | Continue reading
Image of polar bear with plastic hanging from its mouth shortlisted for Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 award. | Continue reading
Crocodile attacks in Australia have risen since conservation measures helped their numbers skyrocket. Now, scientists are harnessing their environmental DNA to find these predators before they strike. | Continue reading
Drone captures footage of a humpback whale missing its tail fluke — an injury suspected to be from long-term entanglement in fishing gear. | Continue reading
The world can be a pretty mysterious place, but scientific questions need scientific answers. | Continue reading
New record-breaking fast-charging technology can power up your smartphone battery quicker than you can write an email. | Continue reading
The year's first supermoon is also the third full moon in a summer that includes four, making it a 'blue supermoon'. Here's how to see August's full Sturgeon Moon rise. | Continue reading
Creatures that existed billions of years before plants and animals poised to become dangerous climate change winners. | Continue reading
A new James Webb Space Telescope analysis of the giant, metal-rich asteroid Psyche reveals signs of hydration in the form of rust. This could help pin down the mysterious rock's origins. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the figurine was a homemade representation of an ancient goddess. | Continue reading
The World Health Organization says the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa requires a coordinated international effort to subdue. | Continue reading
A man allegedly tried to illegally sell three rare Roman-era silver ingots that his great-grandmother reportedly found in her garden years ago. | Continue reading
NASA has once again pushed back the deadline for when the troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft must leave the International Space Station. The agency expects to be ready to conduct a flight readiness review as soon as the end of next week. | Continue reading
Getting the mpox outbreak in Africa under control will be a challenge, but there are tools available to do it. | Continue reading
A UK-based astrophotographer captured this stunning composite image of the Perseid meteor shower raining "shooting stars" over Stonehenge. | Continue reading
Researchers analyzed Stonehenge's Altar Stone and determined that its chemical makeup is similar to that of stones found in northeastern Scotland. | Continue reading
On Aug. 7, a Chinese rocket broke apart in space, creating more than 300 new pieces of trackable debris. | Continue reading
Telsa's Optimus humanoid robot will be among the first such machines to flood our lives when it launches next year, with more set to follow. | Continue reading
NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has created a 3-D map of nearby stars that may help astronomers search for alien planets with the potential for life. | Continue reading
In a new study, scientists have identified 14 modifiable risk factors that boost dementia rates, but could be addressed. | Continue reading
The Oropouche virus, which some media outlets are calling a "sloth virus," has been seen in European travelers returning home from the Americas. | Continue reading
An amateur fossil hunter in Mississippi found the first known fossil in the region from a mammoth — a well-preserved tusk that weighed about 600 pounds (270 kilograms). | Continue reading
A beautiful and rare "cotton candy" lobster caught in New Hampshire may be due to a combination of genetics and diet. | Continue reading
The Amazfit Balance is now 15% off at Amazon and the cheapest it has ever been. | Continue reading
Rat poison detected in around a third of wild mammal carnivores — including those that don't normally eat rodents, such as mountain lions and gray wolves. | Continue reading
Most people much prefer algorithms to make decisions about the redistribution of resources — but they see the outcomes of human-made decisions as more favorable. | Continue reading
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found news clues in the longstanding mystery of why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than our star's surface. | Continue reading
The carbonate compensation depth — a zone where high pressure and low temperature creates conditions so acidic it dissolves shell and skeleton — could make up half of the global ocean by the end of the century. | Continue reading
Squeaking metal can be grating on the nerves, but it serves an important purpose. | Continue reading
A 2021 satellite photo captured rare, wispy streaks of ice stretching across an ocean channel separating the Ronne Ice Shelf and a patch of multi-year sea ice in Antarctica. | Continue reading
Earth was hit by a "severe" G4-class geomagnetic storm on Monday morning, increasing the chances of auroras in the northern U.S. tonight. | Continue reading
There's now an option to treat anaphylaxis via a nasal spray, rather than with an auto-injected medication. | Continue reading
The European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has found evidence of more than 350 previously unknown moons orbiting asteroids within our solar system. | Continue reading
Archaeologists uncovered the twin burials while doing fieldwork in Russia, and the grave goods suggest the deceased may have been tax collectors. | Continue reading
In very rare instances, the live microorganisms in probiotics can cause dangerous infections. | Continue reading
Scientists examining data from NASA's InSight Lander have revealed the likely presence of an underground reservoir containing enough liquid to cover the planet with a mile of water. | Continue reading
A large seamount with three inactive volcanoes that sank into the ocean millions of years ago off the coast of Lanzarote may have inspired the legend of Atlantis. | Continue reading