Two pilotless helicopters completed a dozen test flights, while attempting to avoid more than 150 virtual aircraft, to test the systems that will power future air taxis. | Continue reading
In addition to the funerary items, archaeologists uncovered remnants of a tannery and a 16th-century cemetery. | Continue reading
DNA from remains found in prehistoric North African burials reveals a mix of locals and immigrants who practiced farming. | Continue reading
ESO 420-G013 is a face-on spiral galaxy with an almost perfectly round disk and an active black hole lighting up its starry guts. | Continue reading
As humans start to spread out among the solar system, new accents may begin to emerge in isolated colonies. But why does this happen and what will these new accents sound like? | Continue reading
Scientists investigated flesh-eating infections that took place after record-breaking heat waves in the U.S. last year. | Continue reading
Using a new technique, scientists created genetic blueprints for kangaroos, penguins, sharks and more. | Continue reading
The flightless Aldabra rail went extinct 136,000 years ago when its atoll home sank beneath the waves. Then it evolved again. | Continue reading
The April 8 total solar eclipse will be visible from several astronomical observatories across North America. Here are four that have big events planned for the day the sun disappears. | Continue reading
New simulations show how thousands of galaxies evolve by traveling through the strands of gas, dust and stars that make up the universe's "cosmic web." | Continue reading
Earth moves around the sun at 67,000 mph and makes a full rotation once every 24 hours. So why can't we feel the Earth's rotation? | Continue reading
A look at two Neanderthal skeletons reveals that they could get tuberculosis, and it may have contributed to their extinction. | Continue reading
Health officials have raised the alarm about illegal products containing tianeptine, also known as "gas station heroin." | Continue reading
Days after being revived from its initial power loss on the moon, Japan's SLIM lander will now sleep through the deep cold of lunar night — and may or may not wake up afterward. | Continue reading
A photographer recently snapped an incredibly detailed photo of gigantic, ghostly plasma loops towering above the sun's fiery surface after a powerful solar flare exploded from the sun. | Continue reading
Archaeological evidence suggests that symbolism in art, once seen as something that only modern humans were capable of, was produced by earlier hominins. | Continue reading
Modern humans are far from the only species in the Homo genus. Here are others that went extinct long ago. | Continue reading
Archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes describes key Neanderthal artifacts that suggest the ancient human relatives clearly sought to modify their material world for reasons other than survival. | Continue reading
Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives, such as Neanderthals. | Continue reading
The Icelandic Met Office has warned magma beneath Reykjanes Peninsula is quickly reaching levels seen before the Jan. 14 eruption, and a fissure could open with just one hour of warning. | Continue reading
Rare tree fossils preserved with their leaves have an architecture unlike any plant known today and represent the earliest evidence of smaller trees growing beneath the forest canopy. | Continue reading
A "complex" that regulates gene activity in people with two X chromosomes may predispose them to autoimmune disease, a new study hints. | Continue reading
Lake Rotorua, which sits at the heart of a dormant volcano and is the setting for one of New Zealand's most famous Māori love stories, has been mapped in detail for the 1st time. | Continue reading
Scientists using the eROSITA X-ray telescope have released a trove of data that reveals more than 900,000 objects in space, including 700,000 supermassive black holes and other 'exotic' objects. | Continue reading
You can get $230 off the Lenovo Ideapad 3i at Best Buy right now. | Continue reading
Syphilis is on the rise across all age groups and regions in the U.S., based on data from 2018 to 2022. | Continue reading
Scientists think the toothy fish may have used its mismatched jaw to trap prey. | Continue reading
Never smile with your teeth showing (or even yawn) at a monkey, as this could be considered threatening. | Continue reading
The well-preserved skeleton still has portions of its fingernails and skin intact — however, its skull remains missing. | Continue reading
Riding aboard a SpaceX rocket, Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander is expected to lift off in mid-February, though the target window has not yet been announced. | Continue reading
Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago. | Continue reading
Get the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones for under $330 at Best Buy. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the luxurious villa was where Pliny the Elder first witnessed the massive volcanic eruption that would later claim his life. | Continue reading
The comet-like asteroid Phaethon likely lobbed thousands of rocky fragments toward Earth while rapidly spinning around the sun 18,000 years ago, new research suggests ― and it may fling some more soon. | Continue reading
A new photo taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station reveals a golden glow surrounding our planet in a phenomenon known as airglow. | Continue reading
A "potentially hazardous" space rock the size of a football stadium is about to reach its closest point to our planet for more than 100 years, and it won't get this close to us again for centuries more. | Continue reading
QuEra has harnessed the power of quantum entanglement to dramatically reduce the error rate in qubits — with the first such commercial quantum computer, made from 256 physical qubits and 10 logical qubits, tapping into this technology when it launches this year. | Continue reading
Observations made by Chile's ALMA telescope have revealed a gigantic quasar quenching a galaxy's star formation — a first-of-its-kind observation in the early universe. | Continue reading
The 1,700-year-old Maya tomb houses a number of artifacts, including a mosaic jade mask. | Continue reading
The silver spoon was used to scoop out cosmetics and medications. | Continue reading
The finding suggests that 'successive pulses of small groups' of humans replaced Neanderthals in Europe starting around 45,000 years ago. | Continue reading
You may have heard that fevers help fight infections. But how, exactly, do they do it? | Continue reading
The latest photos from NASA's immobile Ingenuity Mars helicopter reveal the extent of the rotor blade damage it sustained on its fateful 72nd flight. | Continue reading
The exact same celestial geometry that will cause a total solar eclipse in North America on April 8 will produce the longest one ever, but not for another 162 years. | Continue reading
Researchers in Kenya successfully transplanted a white rhino embryo into a female surrogate for the first time. The pregnant mother-to-be died from an unrelated illness before she could give birth, but the procedure showed that some of the world's rarest animals can still be save … | Continue reading
A virus-like protein made by some tumors may be the culprit behind an enigmatic neurological syndrome in cancer patients. | Continue reading
Piranhas have razor-sharp teeth and often travel in shoals, but can they really strip prey of its flesh in a matter of minutes? | Continue reading
Infectious-disease experts explain why it's never too late in the season to get a flu vaccine. | Continue reading