A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors. | Continue reading
How does creeping stress ignite a cataclysmic earthquake? A new study has answers. | Continue reading
Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan. | Continue reading
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. Here's how it affects the brain and who is most at risk. | Continue reading
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course. | Continue reading
Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia. | Continue reading
"Recycling" an already transplanted organ could help save lives, but the procedure comes with additional risks, physicians say. | Continue reading
There's an idea that larger muscles burn a lot more energy while at rest. But is that true? | Continue reading
Research suggests that alcohol causes cancer through at least five different mechanisms. | Continue reading
Common degus clean themselves and communicate with urine, and they can detach their own tails to escape predators. | Continue reading
New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud. | Continue reading
Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too? | Continue reading
The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now Spain and the Middle East. But just how much do you know about these characters? Take our quiz to find out. | Continue reading
Researchers discovered long-lost computer code and used it to resurrect the early chatbot ELIZA. | Continue reading
Jan. 18, 2025: 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
A doorbell camera recorded a rare video of the moment a meteorite fell outside a home. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations.. | Continue reading
Parents are more likely to favor daughters and more-agreeable children, new research suggests, although the findings may only apply to people from certain demographics. | Continue reading
The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds. | Continue reading
Debris from the rocket's explosion was caught on camera by a family vacationing on Grand Turk island. | Continue reading
The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar monster 20 times the mass of the sun. | Continue reading
The Aptera Launch Edition EV offers 400 miles of range on a single charge using an electrical output in addition to 40 miles per day powered by only the sun. | Continue reading
The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a prehistoric meteor impact crater. | Continue reading
Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII. | Continue reading
Experts lay bare the health effects of breathing in wildfire smoke and the steps that can be taken to reduce one's risk. | Continue reading
Physicists have long-suspected that the building blocks of protons experienced quantum entanglement. Now, researchers have the first direct evidence — after using a trick to infer subatomic particles' entropy. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have unearthed a unique stone structure in East Jerusalem, providing evidence of cultic activity and possibly animal sacrifice in the Kingdom of Judah during the First Temple period. | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in 160,000 years, as it lit up the night skies across the globe. | Continue reading
Errors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, they could have found a way to stop them. | Continue reading
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. | Continue reading
There are around 2 million pieces that make up the Alexander the Great mosaic, but where did they come from? | Continue reading
Argyria is caused by a buildup of silver in the body, which discolors the skin. | Continue reading
In case you forgot it was still up there. | Continue reading
Are UFO sightings a 20th-century phenomena, or did people report seeing them earlier in history? | Continue reading
Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis. | Continue reading
The FDA will no longer allow red dye No. 3 in foods or ingested drugs, citing evidence that high doses of the dye can cause cancer in male rats. There is no evidence it's carcinogenic in humans. | Continue reading
The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent increase in seismic activity, could it be about to erupt again? | Continue reading
Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? | Continue reading
The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. | Continue reading
An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women. | Continue reading
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe. | Continue reading
Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish. | Continue reading
A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. | Continue reading
An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed. | Continue reading
Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago. | Continue reading
A 21-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital after she was bleeding from her face and palms, with no obvious cause. | Continue reading
Parts of Southern California are covered with pink fire retardant as firefighters try to control deadly wildfires raging in Los Angeles. But what is Phos-Chek fire retardant and is it safe? | Continue reading