A strange seismic event off the coast of Africa has led scientists to a mighty finding: the discovery of the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded. | Continue reading
This sneaky spider uses its web to catapult itself toward prey. | Continue reading
How the Romans introduced liquefied iron into the streets at Pompeii remains a mystery. | Continue reading
We can't see it. It might not be made of normal matter. Our telescopes haven't directly detected it at all. But it sure seems like it's out there. | Continue reading
Why is Mars so dry? A new paper might have the explanation. | Continue reading
In honor of the 2011 Nobel Prizes being handed out this week, here's a look back at a few of the worst decisions in the history of the venerable institution. | Continue reading
After these ripples in space and time pass through the universe, they may leave behind a sort of memory of their crossing. | Continue reading
Researchers have built a quantum computer prototype that can show 16 possible futures at the same time. | Continue reading
Orange you glad you've just seen the first-ever image of a black hole? | Continue reading
Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process is so convoluted that few can actually use it to tackle their problems. | Continue reading
The bigger they are, the easier they break? Not when it comes to asteroids, researchers recently discovered. | Continue reading
Belief in a punishing, moralizing god follows the rise of complex societies, new research shows. | Continue reading
New experiments addressed a decades-old theoretical question in physics, demonstrating that two realities can exist at the same time. | Continue reading
'Oumuamua is long gone, but it's still leaving scientists guessing. A new explanation proposes that the strange object was a "monstrous fluffy dust aggregate" produced by a busted-up comet. | Continue reading
The structures seem to come in all sizes and shapes, and archaeologists aren't sure what many of then were used for or when they were created. | Continue reading
The world's oldest classroom poster of the periodic table of elements, dating to 1885, has turned up in Scotland. | Continue reading
Even forensic detectives would have a hard time distinguishing between koala fingerprints and human ones. | Continue reading
Kelly Clarkson attributed her weight loss to a book called "The Plant Paradox," which advises people to cut lectins from their diet. But what are lectins? | Continue reading
A woman who couldn’t hear male voices was suffering from a rare form of aural impairment. What is reverse-slope hearing loss? | Continue reading
The greatest tsunami of them all led to the deaths of countless animals from the dinosaur age. | Continue reading
China's Chang'e-4 lander contains a living experiment that could lay the groundwork for agriculture at its future lunar base. | Continue reading
From unintentional irony to flat-out fraud, it has been another banner year for scientific retractions. Here are five notable ones. | Continue reading
Chimpanzees have much better working memories than humans, suggesting we may have underestimated their cognitive abilities. | Continue reading
An ancient temple in Indonesia hid underground for thousands of years. | Continue reading
To find life on Mars, scientists may need to "go deep." | Continue reading
Sometimes we miss one or two penguins, sometimes we miss millions. | Continue reading
The Earth's deep, underground ecosystems are nearly twice as big as the planet's oceans — and they could hold millions of undiscovered species. Thousands of scientists are racing to discover them. | Continue reading
The ground is shifting under Tehran, capitol of Iran. | Continue reading
Was this a 500-year-old fashion statement? | Continue reading
A burly "unicorn" once roamed the Eurasian steppes. | Continue reading
Some 3,700 years ago, a meteor or comet exploded over the Middle East, wiping out human life across a swath of land north of the Dead Sea. | Continue reading
It's long been thought that people inherit mitochondrial DNA exclusively from their mothers. But a provocative new study suggests otherwise. | Continue reading
In a few days, humanity will once again reach out and touch the surface of a foreign world. | Continue reading
Consuming large quantities of carbohydrates and alcohol are the real reason people feel sleepy after a Thanksgiving dinner. | Continue reading
Researchers digging through naval records uncovered a strange and alarming consequence of a massive 1972 solar storm. | Continue reading
Three asteroids are passing by Earth this Saturday, and one will be closer to us than the moon. | Continue reading
Physicists and food historians teamed up to create the ultimate pizza equation. The verdict: find a brick oven. | Continue reading
Long life spans tend to run in families, a phenomenon that's often attributed to people's genes. But a new, large study questions that. | Continue reading
A roving spring of bubbling mud is moving around like a geologic poltergeist in southern California. | Continue reading
Scientists have created the coldest spot in the universe, giving them the opportunity to study the universe's rare fifth form of matter. | Continue reading
Could new findings explain why the universe is made of matter? | Continue reading
The pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females that are able to mate and successfully reproduce | Continue reading
A man in New York developed an extremely rare and fatal brain disorder after he ate squirrel brains, according to a new report of the case. | Continue reading
Tyrannosaurus rex is often mocked for its puny, laughable arms, but new research indicates the fearsome dinosaurs could do a lot more with their little limbs than previously realized. | Continue reading
This ancient inscription from a potter's workshop is the oldest known instance of the full spelling of the word Jerusalem. | Continue reading
One of the first British explorers in the New World got a hefty reward from King Henry VII. | Continue reading
There's something out there that physicists have never seen before, and it's coming up from the bottom of the Earth. Scientists think it's a brand-new particle. | Continue reading
Humans are responsible for some of the wobble in Earth's spin. | Continue reading