Flowers use a variety of strategies to inform pollinating insects about their pollen reserves, including color, smell and even electrical changes. | Continue reading
Forty years ago this week, the first untethered spacewalk resulted in one of space exploration's most iconic images. | Continue reading
How can animals that need to breathe air manage to sleep underwater? | Continue reading
Diving bell spiders are also weird when it comes to sex, with males occasionally gobbling up females in reverse sexual cannibalism. | Continue reading
A technique for printing 3D structures from ice could be used to help make artificial veins and arteries. | Continue reading
The reason for copper's unique properties comes down to the configuration of its electrons. | Continue reading
A vital Atlantic current that includes the Gulf Stream and keeps our climate in check may be giving off a warning sign of collapse. | Continue reading
Researchers discovered an example of convergent evolution in the Peruvian and Tibetan highlander communities. | Continue reading
The highly desiccated remains of a suspected bottlenose dolphin were recently found on a beach in South Carolina after "mummifying" for weeks or even months. One expert believes the animal may have deliberately beached itself. | Continue reading
Get this Dell Inspiron 14 laptop for just $699.99 at Best Buy. | Continue reading
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning photo of one of the most distant Einstein rings ever found. The luminous halo of light aligns perfectly with another galaxy, making it look like a cosmic engagement ring. | Continue reading
A prosthetic limb modified with a new device allowed an amputee to detect temperature changes in objects and also sense when they were touching another human being. | Continue reading
Lesions found on the bones of a Nubian skeleton reveal evidence of an ancient rheumatoid arthritis case. | Continue reading
A volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula erupted for the third time in three months, sending lava 2.8 miles west from the huge fissure in Earth's surface. | Continue reading
Retired breast cancer surgeon Liz O'Riordan is one of many health care professionals whom YouTube says it trusts to make reliable videos. In this interview, she explains why this seal of approval is so important and what it actually entails. | Continue reading
A group of sunspots measuring more than 15 times the diameter of Earth was imaged by NASA's Perseverance Rover last week; now, the spots are pointed toward Earth, with strong flares possible. | Continue reading
Universal memory promises to replace both RAM and flash storage in computers with a better, faster and more energy-efficient alternative — and researchers have just moved this one step closer to reality. | Continue reading
A wooden tablet inscribed with the undeciphered rongorongo script from Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) dates to the 15th century, long before Europeans arrived. This early date suggests that the Rapa Nui people invented their own script without European influence. | Continue reading
CERN's proposed $17 billion particle collider would search for new and unknown physics, but it has drawn fire for its hefty price tag. | Continue reading
The JET nuclear fusion reactor in the UK has set a new world record for total energy output. However, the reactor's record-smashing test will be its last. | Continue reading
Magma flowed into the dike beneath Grindavík at a rate almost 100 times higher than what was seen in the eruptions that took place between 2021 and 2023. | Continue reading
A portion of ancient oceanic crust that sits atop Albania and hosts one of the largest chromium mines on Earth also contains a huge hydrogen reservoir, offering a potential source of clean energy. | Continue reading
A new study reveals the importance of specific cells in triggering erections in mice, and the finding could someday help treat erectile dysfunction in people. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered a 33,000-foot-wide (10 kilometers) underwater canyon that was carved out of the Mediterranean seabed shortly before the sea dried up around 6 million years ago. | Continue reading
The Beats Studio Buds are excellent for listening to music while exercising, and are now $40 off at Best Buy. | Continue reading
The printed tissue grows and functions like that in a normal human brain, according to the authors of the new study. | Continue reading
Researchers found and mapped four seamounts in the deep sea off the coast of Peru and Chile. The tallest of these new peaks rises around 1.5 miles above the seafloor. | Continue reading
The first U.K. patient has received a dose of "cancer vaccine" in a new trial. | Continue reading
The underground volcano near Grindavík has begun its third major eruption in three months, opening up a 2-mile-long fissure that is pumping out large amounts of lava and ash. | Continue reading
The bedrock of Greenland is expanding upward as the land mass sheds ice. | Continue reading
The MadRadar hack bypasses the anti-spoofing protections in the radars of self-driving cars and can trick targets into imagining vehicles that aren't there — or hiding other ones that are. | Continue reading
A new study of Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas finds evidence of a young, underground ocean that may be hospitable to early forms of life. | Continue reading
A hollowed-out animal bone was used by Romans to store a stash of poisonous seeds and is the first-ever evidence of the seeds' use during the Roman era. | Continue reading
Machine learning has helped decipher part of an ancient carbonized scroll found in a villa that likely once belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law. | Continue reading
For the first time, scientists discovered a powerful 'black hole wind' that blew through a nearby galaxy for hundreds of days, crushing star formation and reshaping the galaxy. Something similar may already have happened in the Milky Way. | Continue reading
The universe is expanding faster and faster, but not all scientists agree that dark energy is the cause. Perhaps, instead, our universe keeps colliding with and absorbing smaller 'baby universes,' a new theoretical study suggests. | Continue reading
Scientists argue that adding a Category 6 to the hurricane scale will be needed as the climate changes. | Continue reading
10 shoes from around the world give insight into what people used to wear. | Continue reading
The number of unprovoked shark attacks spiked slightly last year, while the number of fatal bites doubled compared with the previous year. However, the statistics are not as concerning as they initially sound, experts say. | Continue reading
"The Neanderthal is not a brother or a cousin. It is an object of study. The Neanderthal can't in any case be compared with anything that is familiar to us in a world where difference, alterity and classification have become more than ever taboo subjects." | Continue reading
"When two populations are close to one another but they are very distinct — maybe they can have a different language and different traditions, they are in neighboring territories — they are going to exchange their women." | Continue reading
Researchers measured the temperature of the Chicxulub crater 66 million years ago, unlocking mysteries of the dinosaur-dooming mass extinction event. | Continue reading
An image captured off the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows a young polar bear drifting to sleep on a small iceberg after carving a bed in the ice. | Continue reading
Two new ancient shark species have been uncovered in Mammoth Cave with teeth that "look like they just came out of the shark's mouth yesterday." | Continue reading
Scientists are working hard to analyze samples of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, with early results suggesting it may even be a chunk of an ancient water world. | Continue reading
The newly announced Spark v3.5 can beat OpenAI's GPT-4 in language workloads, among other areas, and can synthesize human speech that conveys different emotions, tones and speech patterns, its creators claim. | Continue reading
Surprise discovery of 168-million-year-old pterosaur in rocks on Isle of Skye will help scientists narrow down major events in the evolution of these flying reptiles. | Continue reading
Cornell veterinarians discovered a puppy whose jaw they had surgically removed because of a cancerous tumor had regrown it just eight weeks after the operation. | Continue reading