Archaeologists discovered a cache of treasure inside a sunken underwater temple and sanctuary in Egypt. | Continue reading
NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged through a hellish coronal mass ejection (CME) to capture its mysterious swirlings on film. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that Spain's ancient peoples shared complex beliefs about death and the afterlife. | Continue reading
A new analysis of more than 1,500 papers and 60 types of tissue has revealed the total number of cells in the human body. | Continue reading
The seven-arm octopus, which actually has eight arms, is one of the largest octopus species and is rarely seen by people because it normally dwells in the deep sea. | Continue reading
A new finding in Zambia reveals the oldest known wooden construction shaped by the hands of a human ancestor and demonstrates the ingenuity and technical prowess of our ancient relatives. | Continue reading
Anglers in Texas reeled in a 283-pound alligator gar after a lengthy battle with the enormous fish. Experts say the catch likely breaks a 72-year record. | Continue reading
Researchers used 3D scans of a medieval man's skull to recreate a facial approximation of what he may have looked like when he was alive centuries ago. | Continue reading
New research suggests that the sun may hold dark matter in its fiery heart, and ghostly particles called neutrinos could lead us to it. | Continue reading
Scientists can now create realistic human embryo models in the lab, leading some to suggest that we rethink how we legally define an embryo. | Continue reading
The winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's 15th annual astrophotography contest will blow you away. | Continue reading
Crocodiles appeared to rescue a dog that had been chased into a river, and scientists said this unusual behavior could indicate empathy — but others are skeptical. | Continue reading
The Garmin Enduro 2 adventure watch has been reduced by $100 at Amazon, perfect if you're looking for masses of features and super-long battery life. | Continue reading
A snake in France had a lucky escape after attempting to eat a fish with a spiny dorsal fin that had gotten lodged into the reptile's esophagus. | Continue reading
Placozoans, animals so simple they look like blobby pancakes, have been found to contain cells that may hold the ancestors of modern neurons. | Continue reading
Cave paintings and engravings dating to at least 24,000 years ago were discovered near Valencia in Spain. | Continue reading
An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges. | Continue reading
Researchers analyzed RNA from the 130-year-old tissue of a Tasmanian tiger, a carnivorous marsupial that went extinct nine decades ago. | Continue reading
The U.S. military research agency DARPA is spending millions to develop artificial intelligence that can help make strategic battlefield decisions. | Continue reading
Comet Nishimura, which was only discovered in August, has survived its closest approach to the sun and will brighten over the next week. But is it still visible from Earth? | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope captured a new image of a young sun-like protostar spitting out gas and dust that forms stunning shockwaves when viewed in infrared. | Continue reading
The Argyle formation in Australia, which hosts 90% of the world's pink diamonds, formed when the first supercontinent broke up. | Continue reading
Doctors report an "unusual and spectacular injury" in which a knife blade lodged in a man's belly drifted through his abdomen. | Continue reading
In some cardiac arrest patients, a flurry of brain activity during life-saving CPR may be a sign of a "near-death experience" | Continue reading
Some of the moon's surface water may have an Earthly origin, due to high-energy interactions between the sun and Earth's magnetic shield, new research suggests. | Continue reading
The FDA warns that some products labeled to be "Nuez de la India" actually contain a poisonous plant called yellow oleander. | Continue reading
A video of a stinkhorn fungus — a 10-inch penis-shaped mushroom — bursting from the ground, growing and decaying has been captured in a forest in Germany. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the man died during the Merovingian period, an early stage of the Germanic-speaking empire of the Franks. | Continue reading
A new analysis of screening tests for four types of cancer suggests that only one actually increases life span, on average. But what do scientists think? | Continue reading
Bright flashes in the clouds of Venus once thought to be lightning strikes may have a cosmic origin. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered that hundreds of great white sharks that vanished from their home off the Western Cape of South Africa have moved east in order to survive — but this could spell trouble for both the sharks and the people living there. | Continue reading
Footage of the rare squid, Grimalditeuthis bonplandi, was captured for only the 2nd time ever during an expedition to explore hydrothermal vents off the Galapagos Islands. | Continue reading
In the 1950s, Viktor Safronov, a young Soviet mathematician, was tasked with solving the problem of how the solar system's planets were formed. A decade later he had the answer — but it was largely ignored until an American graduate student passed Safronov's ideas on to NASA. | Continue reading
A second century B.C. leather shoe found in an Austrian mine offers 'extremely rare insight into the life of Iron Age miners.' | Continue reading
Studying the mysterious form of matter around ancient quasar galaxies could have profound implications for our understanding of how the cosmos evolved. | Continue reading
Half a century after the first humans landed on the moon, global interest is once again rising to visit our celestial neighbor. This time, nations have their sights set on the lunar south pole. Why? | Continue reading
An analysis of cloth found inside the cannon suggests that it dates to the 14th century and that the weapon was charged with gunpowder and ready to fire. | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered flowering plants were largely unscathed by the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million years ago, allowing them to take advantage of the new, dinosaur-free planet. | Continue reading
Can we trust our earliest memories, or are they unreliable? | Continue reading
Sept. 17, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. | Continue reading
Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but there's much more to star distribution than meets the eye. | Continue reading
There is a long U.S. legacy of plutocrat-funded pseudoscience. Congress just embraced it. | Continue reading
With the ringed planet currently perfectly positioned for observation with a small telescope, relive Voyager 2's landmark 1981 visit. | Continue reading
Here's the science behind why some people hate eating cilantro, which is also known as coriander. | Continue reading
The maned wolf, a gorgeous canine from South America, is neither a wolf nor a fox, despite resembling both. | Continue reading
Oxytocin may be responsible for new mothers' heightened ability to see faces in inanimate objects, but more research is needed. | Continue reading
Calculating the way three things orbit each other is notoriously tricky — but a new study may reveal 12,000 new ways to make it work. | Continue reading
The Beats Fit Pro are the closest you’ll get to AirPods for workouts. | Continue reading