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
Blasting off on Oct. 12., the NASA mission to visit the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche aims to find crucial clues about the formation of our solar system's planets. | Continue reading
Frail people and those with preexisting conditions were most likely to die from the 1918 flu — not young, healthy adults as once believed, a study of the victims' skeletons suggests. | Continue reading
The ancient Greek statues were assumed to be spotlessly white, but a new study has revealed that the Parthenon Sculptures once burst with color. | Continue reading
After a years-long mission to collect and retrieve rock samples from the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, NASA has revealed its initial findings — and perhaps a clue to life’s origins on Earth. | Continue reading
Astronomers detected the dusty afterglow of a massive planetary collision in a star system 3,600 light-years away, where two giant icy worlds met their end. | Continue reading
Scientists disagree about the timing of the Taupō volcanic eruption — one of the largest on Earth in the past 5,000 years — but shards of glass discovered in Antarctic ice could settle this debate. | Continue reading
Specific patterns of electrical activity in the hippocampus may indicate whether someone is about to misremember an event. | Continue reading
High radiocarbon levels in the rings of subfossil tree stumps suggest that an incomprehensibly powerful solar storm, known as a "Miyake event," smashed into our planet more than 14 millennia ago. | Continue reading
A long-lost tectonic plate dubbed 'Pontus' that was a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean was discovered by chance by scientists studying ancient rocks in Borneo. | Continue reading
A partial solar eclipse will be visible across most of the Americas on Oct. 14, with a rare 'ring of fire' annular eclipse visible in nine states. | Continue reading
Porous rock that formed during one of Earth's biggest volcanic eruptions absorbed so much water as it eroded that it created a huge reservoir over the eons, now buried deep in Earth's crust. | Continue reading
Despite humans living with cats for thousands of years, scientists still don’t quite know how they make purring sounds. But new research appears to be edging us closer. | Continue reading
A huge methane leak discovered in the Baltic Sea spans 7.7 square miles, with masses of gas bubbles rising almost all the way to the ocean surface. | Continue reading
Attention outdoor adventurers and fitness fanatics - one of the best smartwatches on the market is now 31% off at Amazon UK. | Continue reading
Scientists studied genetic samples from more than 7,000 people and linked three genetic variants, inherited from Neanderthals, to increased pain sensitivity. | Continue reading
It's not too late to buy safe, high-quality eclipse glasses before the Oct. 14 annular solar eclipse in North America. Just make sure you're buying from an approved vendor. | Continue reading
A recent study pinpoints measurable differences in the blood of people who survived to age 100 and those who died younger. | Continue reading
Get Amazon's latest generation Echo Dot for under $25. | Continue reading
The Amazfit Bip 3 Pro is cheap — and it just got another price cut. | Continue reading
A new ore, dubbed niobobaotite, was discovered in Inner Mongolia's Bayan Obo deposit and contains the rare earth element niobium — a valuable metal that acts as a superconductor and could revolutionize battery technology. | Continue reading
A Chinook helicopter flying above a crocodile farm in Queensland appears to have set off a huge sexy frenzy, with the crocs mistaking the noise and vibrations as a signal it was time to make babies. | Continue reading
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Scientists have fully mapped the lost continent of Zealandia in a world first, discovering new details about how it broke away from the supercontinent Gondwana through the ignition of a huge volcanic region tens of millions of years ago. | Continue reading
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The center of Earth lies around 4,000 miles beneath our feet — but what lies beneath the outer crust and the inner core? | Continue reading
The highly-rated Samsung Galaxy Buds2 are now just $64.99, down from $139.99 while stocks last. | Continue reading