The tomb was said to have been demolished in the 19th century, but a new search has found its location. | Continue reading
Pangolin courtship rituals can last hours and require lots of adjusting for the couple's scaly armor, incredible new footage shot for the PBS series "Big Little Journeys" reveals. | Continue reading
The first full moon of 2024, sometimes nicknamed the Wolf Moon, will rise into winter skies this week, appearing bright and full from Wednesday to Friday. | Continue reading
If people can be allergic to pets, can pets be allergic to people? | Continue reading
It's finally time to look inside the sample-return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Scientists were locked out of the container for months due to a technical malfunction. | Continue reading
Watch the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' annual Doomsday Clock announcement to find out if 2024 is the year we creep closer than ever to a human-made apocalypse. | Continue reading
For only the eighth time in history, scientists detected an asteroid before it made its fiery appearance over Earth. The tiny fireball exploded near Berlin early on Jan. 21. | Continue reading
Timely diagnosis and surgery saved the girl's life, doctors involved in her folded-stomach case reported. | Continue reading
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully bounced a laser off of a cookie-sized mirror on Inida's Vikram moon lander in an experiment that could greatly improve the precision of future moon landings. | Continue reading
The sun's magnetic field could soon slam into Earth's, triggering stunning light displays. | Continue reading
Bottlenose dolphins have been observed trying to kill Antillean manatee calves, and researchers don't fully understand what's going on. | Continue reading
The aircraft can cruise at 120 mph at an altitude of up to 1,500 feet — and it's much quieter than a helicopter. | Continue reading
Save $62 on the Coway Airmega AP-1512HH air purifier at Amazon. | Continue reading
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a bizarre string of dust in the shape of a cat's tail around the nearby juvenile star Beta Pictoris. | Continue reading
Find the perfectly camouflaged animals in all of these photos. | Continue reading
Most robots are preprogrammed to perform specific functions, but Figure's humanoid Figure 01 machine — that learns by watching and corrects its own mistakes — might upend the field. | Continue reading
The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted. | Continue reading
Over 17,000 southern elephant seal pups were found dead on Argentina's Valdés Peninsula in a horrific mass die off attributed to the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus. | Continue reading
Scientists say they have discovered a discrepancy in previous research and suggest megalodons may have been longer and more slender than previously believed — but not everyone is convinced. | Continue reading
Enigmatic octopuses that have been newly discovered in the waters off Costa Rica add to a growing registry of deep-sea dwellers. | Continue reading
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which could change astronomy forever when it comes online this August, looks like a planet all its own in this surreal new photo. | Continue reading
Why does wearing wool clothing sometimes lead to insatiable itching? | Continue reading
Video footage from a new series captures thousands of fire ants building a floating raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool. | Continue reading
Loggerhead shrikes can kill prey bigger than themselves by stabbing and shaking them, before impaling them on sticks to eat later. | Continue reading
Fjords, many of them sculpted over many ice ages, can form all over Earth. So why does Norway have so many? | Continue reading
Exactly how Tylenol — also called acetaminophen or paracetamol — relieves pain continues to evade scientists, but it's clear the drug interacts with one key set of enzymes. | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will have "an absolutely massive amount of infrastructure" in place by the end of the year to prime it for training an artificial general intelligence model. | Continue reading
Japan's SLIM lander successfully reached the lunar surface on Friday, Jan. 19, but problems with its solar cells mean it could be dead on the moon within hours. | Continue reading
A new facial approximation of a man who was crucified in Roman Britain finally "puts a face to his story." | Continue reading
Students who need a laptop with a big screen should jump on this deal from Best Buy — it's been reduced by $250. | Continue reading
Evidence of at least four populations from different times in Brazil's history was found at the same archaeological site. | Continue reading
The inexplicable entity, which likely had a chemical composition unlike any other known star, was identified by a group of "stellar archaeologists" who traced back the cosmic history of another equally unique star. | Continue reading
A midstage clinical trial suggests that a "first-of-its-kind" treatment could prevent serious immune attacks from bone-marrow transplants. | Continue reading
More than 100 dodecahedrons have now been found in northwestern Europe, but archaeologists still don't know what they were used for. | Continue reading
Przewalski horses cloned from a stallion that died in 1998 could help reintroduce much needed diversity to the species that was once declared extinct in the wild. | Continue reading
A newfound species of fungus gnat is behind Alaska's "snake worm" mystery, in which thousands of fly larvae moved together in the shape of a snake. | Continue reading
The discovery of a cemetery in Ukraine from a millennium ago has revealed axes, swords, jewelry and, unexpectedly, buckets around the feet of some of the dead. | Continue reading
The green-tinged cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is due to pass by Earth later this year, was recently spotted zooming past the crimson-colored Crescent Nebula in stunning new photos. | Continue reading
Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap — and how we could feel the fallout. | Continue reading
Microsoft's AI tool narrowed 32 million theoretical materials down to 18 in just 80 hours — with scientists synthesizing one that can reduce Lithium usage in batteries by 70%. | Continue reading
A newly discovered mystery object could be the heaviest neutron star ever seen, the smallest black hole, or something completely new to science. | Continue reading
Astronomers accidentally uncovered an extremely dark primordial galaxy — one of the faintest objects in the universe — because of a typo in their telescope coordinates. | Continue reading
A new, ultra-detailed map shows that 75% of U.S. states are at risk of damaging earthquakes, but some are at far more risk than others. | Continue reading
Giant exploding craters only known to exist on Russia's permafrost-covered Yamal and Gydan peninsulas may result from a specific set of conditions not found elsewhere in the Arctic. | Continue reading
People of African ancestry have the highest rates of the most common form of glaucoma, so scientists are studying whether unique gene variants are tied to their risk. | Continue reading
A "whole lotta" dopamine is what keeps our close relationships alive, a new rodent study suggests. | Continue reading
Save a hefty $190 on one of the best budget exercise bikes on the market. | Continue reading
A new cosmic crime scene reconstruction tells the full story of a star ripped apart by a ravenous black hole, revealing a previously unknown aspect of these tidal disruption events. | Continue reading