China's forthcoming Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) will search for the origins of cosmic rays in momentary flashes of light beneath the ocean's surface. | Continue reading
A crocodile in Kenya's Mara River was filmed thrashing around with the corpse of a baby hippo in its jaws in unusual sighting. It is unclear if the crocodile killed the calf or if it snatched a stillborn. | Continue reading
After you've eaten beets, your poop and urine can take on a shocking red or pink color — but why? | Continue reading
Mount Vesuvius' eruption in A.D. 79 carbonized hundreds of scrolls and papyri in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Now, AI has decoded part of a scroll. | Continue reading
The Orionid meteor shower will peak this weekend. Here's when to get the best view. | Continue reading
These ancient 'mummy portraits' provide a window into ancient Egyptian life and culture. | Continue reading
Human violence in the Middle East has ebbed and flowed since 12000 B.C., with spikes in the Copper and Iron ages and a lull in the Bronze Age, new research finds. | Continue reading
Three mass mortality events have struck a population of gray whales off the west coast of North America since the 1980s, and scientists have linked them to changing conditions in the Arctic. | Continue reading
Almost every part of North, Central and South America had a view of a partial solar eclipse on Oct. 14, with millions of lucky viewers witnessing a glorious 'ring of fire' around the moon. | Continue reading
A new analysis has concluded that the Gulf Stream is definitely slowing, but whether it's due to climate change is hard to tell. | Continue reading
The man developed the painful rash two days after eating undercooked shiitake mushrooms. | Continue reading
Thanks to El Niño, meteorologists are predict a snowy winter in the Rockies, storms and wet weather in the South and drier conditions in the Northwest and Uppder Midwest. | Continue reading
A 7.5-foot-tall statue of a man clutching his penis was unearthed at one of the oldest temple sites in Turkey. | Continue reading
The NOAA satellites GOES-East and GOES-West watched as the shadow of the moon darkened the surface of Earth on Saturday, Oct. 14. | Continue reading
Research suggests cannibalism was a funerary rite for the Magdalenian people in northwest Europe, but others preferred to bury their dead. | Continue reading
The cryovolcanic comet 12P/Pons–Brooks, which will make its closest approach to Earth next year, has re-sprouted its distinctive "horns" after its second major eruption in four months. | Continue reading
Astronomers suggest that an alternative concept of gravity, known as modified Newtonian dynamics, could explain orbital inconsistencies that have previously pointed to the existence of a ninth planet in the solar system. | Continue reading
The speed at which food moves through the digestive tract depends on many factors. | Continue reading
New James Webb Space Telescope observations might be able to explain why clusters of young stars keep turning up near the Milky Way’s central black hole. | Continue reading
Foxgloves contain digoxin, a drug used to treat cardiac arrhythmia and heart failure that can also be toxic. But can ingesting it cause a heart attack? | Continue reading
Oct. 15, 2023: 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
British physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski explains how Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's expedition to the North Pole was 'one of the most bonkers and brilliant experiments ever devised'. | Continue reading
In this extract from the new book Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works, oceanographer Helen Czerski explains the ingenious way turtles contend with the extreme saltiness of the sea. | Continue reading
In this interview, British oceanographer Helen Czerski explains the systems driving our ocean, compares it to a fancy cocktail, and explains what the next great ocean frontier is. | Continue reading
Killer whales are surprisingly gentle in the wild when interacting with humans — though it's sometimes a different story with orcas in captivity. | Continue reading
Hydrogen is not a metal on Earth, but scientists keep trying to create metallic hydrogen under high pressure to unlock a new superconductor. | Continue reading
Paintings of sea-centaurs, the hellhound Cerberus and other mythical beings cover a 2,200-year-old tomb unearthed near Naples in Italy. | Continue reading
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has reached a record-breaking speed as it gets a gravitational assist from Venus to fall closer to the sun's scorching surface. | Continue reading
Amid the Soul Nebula's harsh red light, a cocoon of gas holds baby stars in the making in this ethereal new Hubble telescope image. | Continue reading
Diamonds are naturally hard, but is there anything from Earth, space or even a lab that's harder? | Continue reading
The most detailed atlas of the human brain ever devised includes many cell types we've never seen before. | Continue reading
NASA researchers plan to launch three rockets carrying scientific instruments toward the moon's shadow on Oct. 14, to study changes in the atmosphere brought about by the annular solar eclipse. | Continue reading
As the woman picked up the platypus, the animal dug its spurs dug into her bare hand and injected venom into her body. | Continue reading
A photograph of a paper nautilus in the aftermath of the Taal volcano eruption in the Philippines has won 2023 Ocean Photographer of the Year award. | Continue reading
Scientists discovered an enzyme within the ant "blood-brain barrier" that helps control whether an ant ends up a soldier or a forager. | Continue reading
Eclipses can be strange. Here are some of the weird things you can expect to experience during the Oct. 14 partial eclipse. | Continue reading
Researchers documenting fossil tracks in March discovered the first tritylodontid fossils ever found in the Navajo Sandstone and rushed to retrieve them before snowmelt replenished Lake Powell. | Continue reading
Scientists analyzing cave lion bones have discovered the earliest evidence of Neanderthals hunting a cave lion, as well as the oldest example of human relatives using a lion pelt for cultural purposes. | Continue reading
By analyzing how birds migrated across the U.S. over a 23-year period, researchers have shown that solar weather events can seriously disrupt the navigation of the wandering avians. | Continue reading
The European Space Agency's Gaia telescope revealed half a million newfound stars, and detailed the orbits of over 150,000 asteroids. | Continue reading
The WWII catapult, designed to launch bomber planes in southeastern England, was never used. | Continue reading
The sheer force of the motorcycle accident pushed the man's right testicle up through a small passageway in the groin and into his abdomen. | Continue reading
A newly described titanosaur species, named after an ancient Egyptian deity, fills a gap in our understanding of Africa's dinosaurs. | Continue reading
The European Space Agency's dark energy and dark matter spacecraft has once again found its guiding stars and is preparing for full "science mode." | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered a new insect genus of big, alien-looking parasitic wasps in the Peruvian rainforest, one of the most biodiverse places in the world. | Continue reading
The number varies from a dozen to almost 100 — and most of these don't even appear on official maps. | Continue reading
French photographer Laurent Ballesta has received this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his image of a tri-spine horseshoe crab off Pangatalan Island in the Philippines. | Continue reading
A toxic coolant leak discovered on Russian space station equipment is only the latest in a series of malfunctions in recent months. | Continue reading