Some of the moon's surface water may have an Earthly origin, due to high-energy interactions between the sun and Earth's magnetic shield, new research suggests. | Continue reading
The FDA warns that some products labeled to be "Nuez de la India" actually contain a poisonous plant called yellow oleander. | Continue reading
A video of a stinkhorn fungus — a 10-inch penis-shaped mushroom — bursting from the ground, growing and decaying has been captured in a forest in Germany. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the man died during the Merovingian period, an early stage of the Germanic-speaking empire of the Franks. | Continue reading
A new analysis of screening tests for four types of cancer suggests that only one actually increases life span, on average. But what do scientists think? | Continue reading
Bright flashes in the clouds of Venus once thought to be lightning strikes may have a cosmic origin. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered that hundreds of great white sharks that vanished from their home off the Western Cape of South Africa have moved east in order to survive — but this could spell trouble for both the sharks and the people living there. | Continue reading
Footage of the rare squid, Grimalditeuthis bonplandi, was captured for only the 2nd time ever during an expedition to explore hydrothermal vents off the Galapagos Islands. | Continue reading
In the 1950s, Viktor Safronov, a young Soviet mathematician, was tasked with solving the problem of how the solar system's planets were formed. A decade later he had the answer — but it was largely ignored until an American graduate student passed Safronov's ideas on to NASA. | Continue reading
A second century B.C. leather shoe found in an Austrian mine offers 'extremely rare insight into the life of Iron Age miners.' | Continue reading
Studying the mysterious form of matter around ancient quasar galaxies could have profound implications for our understanding of how the cosmos evolved. | Continue reading
Half a century after the first humans landed on the moon, global interest is once again rising to visit our celestial neighbor. This time, nations have their sights set on the lunar south pole. Why? | Continue reading
An analysis of cloth found inside the cannon suggests that it dates to the 14th century and that the weapon was charged with gunpowder and ready to fire. | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered flowering plants were largely unscathed by the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million years ago, allowing them to take advantage of the new, dinosaur-free planet. | Continue reading
Can we trust our earliest memories, or are they unreliable? | Continue reading
Sept. 17, 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
Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but there's much more to star distribution than meets the eye. | Continue reading
There is a long U.S. legacy of plutocrat-funded pseudoscience. Congress just embraced it. | Continue reading
With the ringed planet currently perfectly positioned for observation with a small telescope, relive Voyager 2's landmark 1981 visit. | Continue reading
Here's the science behind why some people hate eating cilantro, which is also known as coriander. | Continue reading
The maned wolf, a gorgeous canine from South America, is neither a wolf nor a fox, despite resembling both. | Continue reading
Oxytocin may be responsible for new mothers' heightened ability to see faces in inanimate objects, but more research is needed. | Continue reading
Calculating the way three things orbit each other is notoriously tricky — but a new study may reveal 12,000 new ways to make it work. | Continue reading
The Beats Fit Pro are the closest you’ll get to AirPods for workouts. | Continue reading
The Wollemi pine was thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago until it was rediscovered by a group of hikers in 1994. Now, scientists have decoded its genome to understand how it's survived — almost unchanged — since the time of the dinosaurs. | Continue reading
The star T CrB flares up every 80 years. A document from 1217 could help confirm its regularity. | Continue reading
With comfort at their core, the Mizuno Wave Rider 27 are perfect running shoes for churning out the easy miles, particularly over the cooler months. | Continue reading
Apple's best student tablet is discounted again at B&H Photo. | Continue reading
The risk of a rare type of brain hemorrhage may be transmissible, though the absolute risk is very low. | Continue reading
These Bose 700 UC headphones are discounted at B & H photos. | Continue reading
Save $200 on the MacBook Pro at B&H Photo. | Continue reading
A comfortable support shoe with a moderate level of cushioning — the Brooks Adrenaline GTS 23 is a reliable everyday pair. | Continue reading
Stay up to date with the latest virtual reality (VR) news, features and articles. | Continue reading
Everything you need to know about the World Wide Web with the latest internet news, features and articles. | Continue reading
Scientists blast claims of two 'alien' bodies that a journalist presented to Mexico's congress. | Continue reading
In the agency's first public report on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), NASA experts admit "we don't know what these UAP are." | Continue reading
Archeologists discovered the mysterious arch at the end of a narrow, underground passageway that was sealed with sediment shortly after it was built in the Middle Bronze Age. | Continue reading
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected potential traces of dimethyl sulfide, a chemical only known to be created by phytoplankton on Earth, in the atmosphere of an exoplanet believed to have its own liquid ocean. | Continue reading
An analysis suggests that annual temperature-related deaths in the U.S. could rise to one-third of the number caused by cancer if global warming hits 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius). | Continue reading
Some scientists are pushing for species named after offensive people such as Hitler to be renamed, but the official governing body that guides species renaming is opposed. | Continue reading
The AutoBrush Sonic Pro promises to leave your teeth clean and shiny in 30 seconds, but can it deliver on plaque removal and whole-mouth freshness? | Continue reading
The Shokz OpenFit are unique and convenient in some instances, but anyone who wants regular in-ear earbuds should look elsewhere. | Continue reading
Alexandru Lupsasca and Michael Johnson won the New Horizons award for their work on photon spheres — weird rings of light around black holes that may reveal a theory of quantum gravity. | Continue reading
Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties. | Continue reading
Researchers studied chimpanzee and monkey anatomy to better understand how humans evolved to have flexible shoulders and elbows. | Continue reading
A two-peaked mountain in northeastern China is the site of the world's first confirmed mountaintop crater. | Continue reading
Astronomers discovered an ultra-rare spiral galaxy with a ring of hydrogen swirling around its poles. | Continue reading
Explore the branch of science and technology that's all about building things and solving problems with the latest engineering news, features and articles. | Continue reading