Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us. | Continue reading
Small, smart and beginner-friendly, the SeeStar S50 takes the hassle out of stargazing, delivering detailed nebula and galaxy shots at the tap of your screen. | Continue reading
The experimental manufacturing process could one day deliver a vehicle with a 1,000-plus mile range, researchers say. | Continue reading
Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out why. | Continue reading
An academic dives into the physics of multiple dimensions and whether it's possible to tie a knot in 4D. | Continue reading
Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a weird space-time trick first predicted by Einstein. | Continue reading
Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening — and it might explain some complex orca societies. | Continue reading
NASA's Artemis II is on track to shoot for the moon in April after engineers fixed the helium issue that grounded the mission's rocket last month. | Continue reading
Researchers have revealed that North American birds are declining at an accelerating rate in three regional hotspots associated with intense agriculture. | Continue reading
How award-winning scientist Meha Jain is using satellite data to help India's farmers adapt to climate change. | Continue reading
The portable computing powerhouse is capable of running 120-billion-parameter LLMs, roughly three times larger than GPT-3, without needing to access the internet or the cloud. | Continue reading
Lightweight, portable and sharp, the Hawke Endurance ED 8x25 proves compact binoculars can deliver big views without weighing you down. | Continue reading
A doctor who had a genetic condition that prevents teeth from forming searched for the DNA mutation that had affected his family for over 150 years. | Continue reading
Scientists have described Tanyka amnicola, a newly identified species of prehistoric creature that lived 275 million years ago and had a bizarre twisted jaw with sideways-facing teeth. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the universe's short-lived first generation of gigantic stars, challenging an existing theory. | Continue reading
A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid. | Continue reading
Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics. | Continue reading
A gold coin featuring the son of Charlemagne may have been a keepsake from a Viking invader who fought in the Great Heathen Army. | Continue reading
Here are the first images of the March 3 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse visible over North America, Australia, and eastern Asia. | Continue reading
A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies. | Continue reading
Elle Leontiev's image of Philip, a self-taught volcanologist who has lived on Mount Yasur his whole life, has won the Portraiture category of the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2026. | Continue reading
A 2023 satellite photo highlights the point where a trio of rivers converges in Guyana. One of the waterways has been significantly altered by mining waste, creating a striking color contrast. | Continue reading
The mysterious Lady of Elche was crafted from a large limestone block before the Romans ruled Spain. | Continue reading
A newly published study suggests that the immune system may play a role in why recovery from pain differs in men and women. | Continue reading
Q&A with cognitive neuroscientist Steve Fleming: What the science of self-awareness can tell us about confident decision-making | Continue reading
Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during their rituals, a new chemical analysis suggests. | Continue reading
March 2026 could be the best month for the northern lights until the mid-2030s, as celestial mechanics and solar activity combine for potentially potent results. | Continue reading
The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away. | Continue reading
Your weight doesn't change because of gravity but because the floor pushes back. Physicists explain why elevators briefly make you feel heavier or lighter. | Continue reading
In 1974, physicist Stephen Hawking described the potential for tiny, primordial black holes that existed at the dawn of time to explode — and reshaped what we knew about these cosmic behemoths. | Continue reading
A new project allowed AI chatbots to interrupt, stay silent or speak up the way humans do in conversation, and it made them smarter and more accurate. | Continue reading
A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars. | Continue reading
Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature — a strategy called heterothermy — and outlast storms, floods and predators. | Continue reading
A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed proto-writing in the Stone Age. | Continue reading
Feb. 28, 2026: 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
An 11th-century Norse coin found in Maine raises the question of whether the Vikings landed there. | Continue reading
A new method of studying the contents of soil samples has revealed Stone Age people in Sweden were buried in decorated fur-and-feather clothing. | Continue reading
Humanity’s Last Exam is a PhD-level benchmark designed to test the limits of AI reasoning. Although Google’s Gemini 3 scored a staggering 48.4%, experts stress that this does not indicate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI). | Continue reading
Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This normally indicates a period of greatly reduced solar activity, but it's still too soon to relax, experts say. | Continue reading
A major shakeup to NASA's Artemis program will step rocket launches up to an annual basis, and discard a Boeing-designed upper stage. | Continue reading
"Monogenic" diseases, triggered by mutations in just one gene, may actually be more complex than scientists thought. | Continue reading
The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 5-inch Schmidt-Cass is now down to $479 at Amazon, making it easy to enjoy the blood moon eclipse on March 3. | Continue reading
"At first, I kind of laughed … But they were serious. I could just see the seriousness in their faces." In this book excerpt, Lise Barnéoud explores the limitations of DNA testing. | Continue reading
While the total lunar eclipse on March 3 is the main event of the month, there's plenty more to see throughout the month of March — here's everything you need to marvel at the night sky this month. | Continue reading
Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating artifacts from past civilizations. | Continue reading
A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes. | Continue reading
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is expected to reach 7 million alerts per night. | Continue reading
New photos captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show that Mars' giant, spiderweb-like "boxwork" features are covered in tiny, never-before-seen nodules that bear a striking resemblance to arachnid eggs. And researchers are struggling to explain them. | Continue reading