Can chimpanzees wage war? In this excerpt from "The Beast Within: Human as Animals," scientific researcher Jessica Serra looks at the dark side of our cousins' behavior. | Continue reading
During a kitchen renovation, a family in England unexpectedly discovered a hoard of coins that was likely buried for safekeeping during the first English Civil War. | Continue reading
Electric cars and laptop batteries could charge up much faster and last longer thanks to a new structure that can be used to make much better capacitors in the future. | Continue reading
What would it be like to fall past the event horizon of a black hole? A new NASA simulation provides a peek into the bizarre physics of spaghettification. | Continue reading
Archaeologists excavating a burial mound in Croatia have discovered a 2,500-year-old Illyrian helmet that may have been a votive offering. | Continue reading
A tiny, previously undisclosed lunar rover has been spotted strapped to the side of China's moon-bound Chang'e 6 lander in newly released pre-launch photos. The true purpose of the rover, which is scheduled to land on the moon's far side, remains a mystery. | Continue reading
The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner space capsule was canceled on Monday (May 6) due to a loudly buzzing valve on the Atlas V rocket carrying it. The delay is yet another headache for Boeing in its attempt to get its Starliner capsule up and running. | Continue reading
For decades, cannabis has been studied for its potential antitumor properties, but whether it can actually treat cancer is still unknown. | Continue reading
A new Japanese mission to photograph space junk from orbit marks a milestone in orbital debris cleanup efforts. | Continue reading
Ongoing excavations have revealed Roman ruins that were once part of a legionary fortress. | Continue reading
Scientists engineer the 'purest ever silicon' to build reliable qubits that can be manufactured to the size of a pinhead on a chip and power million-qubit quantum computers in the future. | Continue reading
Newfound rocks on Mars suggest the planet may have once sported an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more Earth-like and hospitable to life than previously thought. | Continue reading
The excavations have recovered weapons, necklaces, bracelets and worked bones. | Continue reading
A new study debunks previous findings that the dinosaur's intelligence was similar to that of primates, finding instead that they're about as smart as modern-day crocodiles. | Continue reading
The Infra-Red Calibration Balloon (S73-7) satellite had gone off the grid from radar not once but twice — once in the 1970s and then again in the 1990s. After 25 years missing in orbit, it has finally been rediscovered. | Continue reading
Is Stonehenge aligned with the moon? Scientists hope to find out during a rare 'major lunar standstill, which happens once every 18.6 years. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered a way to curve data-carrying terahertz signals around obstacles, paving the way for ultrafast 6G. | Continue reading
The Batagay megaslump — a 3,250-foot-wide (990 meters) depression in the permafrost in the Russian Far East — is "actively growing" by a massive amount every year, scientists have found. | Continue reading
We've seen many big hitters capture our imagination, alongside a handful of oddities and misfits that were less successful. | Continue reading
The simple question of "why five" has puzzled scientists from multiple fields, and the answer still isn't entirely clear. | Continue reading
A puzzling arc was spotted in the water of a Greenland fjord littered with iceberg fragments. There are a couple of possible explanations for this bizarre phenomenon but we will likely never know what caused it, experts say. | Continue reading
In a new series of comics, where young, female scientists take center stage, MIT's Ritu Raman explains how the format can inspire the next generation of young people into the world of STEM. | Continue reading
Coronal moss grows, solar rain falls and plasma eruptions rear their gargantuan heads in this fiery landscape of the sun's outer atmosphere, taken by ESA's Solar Orbiter. | Continue reading
Sometimes bacteria lurking in people's guts can get them drunk, even if they don't consume any alcohol. | Continue reading
And like dogs, why do cats also sniff fellow felines' behinds? | Continue reading
Your running speed partly comes down to factors you can't control, like genetics, and partly relies on your training. | Continue reading
How can we truly know if AI is sentient? We do not yet fully understand the nature of human consciousness, so we cannot discount the possibility that today's AI is indeed sentient — and that we are mistreating it to potentially grave consequences. | Continue reading
Hammer-headed bats are named after the males' oversized boxy heads, which evolved to amplify and project the honking sounds they produce to impress females during courtship displays. | Continue reading
The research combined radiocarbon dating with measurements of atmospheric radiocarbon from tree rings to build a chronology of the ancient city. | Continue reading
Cats are masters of contortion — and the laws of physics — which helps them stick the landing more times than not. | Continue reading
China's launched its Chang'e 6 sample-return mission, which will haul dirt and rocks home from the mysterious lunar far side. | Continue reading
A 3,500-year-old rest house in the Sinai desert may have been used by an Egyptian pharaoh. | Continue reading
The languages of the earliest Americans evolved in 4 waves, according to one expert. | Continue reading
Health officials have warned of an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach, California. | Continue reading
Infections can trigger pregnancy complications, and now, new miniature versions of the placenta are helping show why. | Continue reading
The Maud Rise polynya has been sporadically opening up in Antarctica's ice since at least the 1970s. Now climatologists finally know why. | Continue reading
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of the exoplanet WASP-43b reveal that the hot gas giant is tidally locked, meaning one side permanently faces its sun while the other always stares out into space. | Continue reading
The wreck near a beach on Mallorca gives a snapshot of sea trade in late Roman times. | Continue reading
Flaring stars, black hole outbursts and gamma-rays are just some of the cosmic exotica that Einstein Probe will hunt for. | Continue reading
The Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) beneath Earth's surface and contains giant gypsum crystal beams that are up to 37 feet (11 m) long. | Continue reading
Mercury is about to reach its "greatest elongation west" of the sun, meaning stargazers will have their best view of the "swift planet" all year. Here's how to see it. | Continue reading
A new type of hybrid sodium-ion battery that offers both high capacity and rapid-charging capabilities could power mobile devices, electric vehicles and space tech. | Continue reading
Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has dramatically shortened that time. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope's possible detection of biological chemicals on the exoplanet K2-18b may just have been methane gas, a new study cautions. Planned follow-up observations could solve the mystery for good. | Continue reading
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Scientists built a "smart filter" that can work with a cheap smartphone camera to transform low-resolution photos into supersharp images without glare and other issues. | Continue reading
With her long, brown hair and determined gaze, the new facial reconstruction lets us peek into the world of an archaic human who lived tens of thousands of years ago. | Continue reading
A pair of odd twisters spun out from a supercell thunderstorm in Oklahoma Tuesday (April 30). | Continue reading