An astonishing 82 percent decrease in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy since 2010 has given the world a
Scientists have identified the traits that may make a person more likely to claim they hear the voices of the
A new analysis of an ancient Egyptian mummy suggests that advanced mummification techniques were used 1,000 years earlier than previously
Venture close enough to a black hole and you’ll quickly learn how the force of gravity warps the very fabric
Results from a recent study by US wildlife scientists found that two female California condors gave birth to chicks without any male
Auroral activity on Earth varies over time. As the magnetic poles drift, auroras can appear at different latitudes around the
At first glance, the panda doesn’t seem to have the same sort of camouflage protection as, say, some lizards or
Auroral fireworks for Halloween? It just might happen, depending on where you live. On October 28, 2021, the Sun blasted
Even when there’s not a cloud in the sky, there’s always water circulating in the atmosphere. Compared to all the
Shooting a drop of water with one of the world’s most powerful lasers might not be an obvious way to
Jupiter‘s iconic Great Red Spot may extend even deeper into the planet’s atmosphere than scientists thought. NASA’s Juno spacecraft zipped past
An unsuspecting worker at Galveston Island State Park on the western Gulf Coast in Texas found a fish with a
A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of Sitting Bull has been confirmed using DNA taken from the Native American
Scientists have named a new species that may have been the direct ancestor of modern humans. The newly proposed species, Homo
A thousand years ago, in what is now Peru, a middle-aged man was entombed amid a wealth of golden artifacts.
A talking CGI dinosaur just gave an impassioned speech about climate change to world leaders in a new UN video. Will they take it
Even though we have not found any evidence of extraterrestrial life so far, that’s not to say we shouldn’t be
There’s a vast amount of research out there, with the volume growing rapidly with each passing day. But there’s a
There’s a a desert land in the very heart of Eurasia, dry enough to naturally mummify human remains. A Bronze
Dune, the epic series of sci-fi books by Frank Herbert, now turned into a movie of the same name, is
Stick a turtle’s beak on a baby hippo. Then twist its front legs so they stick out to either side,
Raging wildfires tore through Antarctica 75 million years ago, back when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, a new study finds.
We’ve seen plenty of awe-inspiring images of space captured by telescopes and spacecraft in the past: whether it’s a supernova
You might know that the size of the pupils in our eyes changes depending on how well lit our environment
Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached record levels last year, the United Nations said Monday, in a stark warning
You can’t see them from the surface, but they’re definitely there. Scientists have revealed the discovery of hundreds of ancient
In December last year, the media reported an intriguing signal we at the Breakthrough Listen project found in our radio
Experts have taken another look at 220-million-year-old footprints found in a coal mine in Ipswich, Australia in the 1960s –
Human beings appear to have an almost innate sense of rhythm. Across cultures, we’ve fashioned different varieties of percussive instruments
In a galaxy 31 million light-years away, astronomers believe they have just found evidence of a planet. After a painstaking
An exquisite Christian prayer roll from five centuries ago has been rediscovered by researchers, giving the public its first glimpse
Picture this: it’s April 2020, you’re between Zoom meetings, and scrolling through your social media newsfeed. Headlines like “Death toll
Just over 400 light-years away, a baby exoplanet is making its way into the Universe. This, in itself, is not
A “bomb cyclone” in the Pacific is dumping extreme rain and several feet of snow on California. The wild weather
Even when human societies do not grow crops, farm livestock, build permanent settlements, or burn fossil fuels, they can still
A series of new psychology studies has found most people want to tax all billionaires as a group, but think
Vaccines save lives, and have been doing so since the development of the smallpox vaccine more than 200 years ago.
A tiny crab scuttled around a forest floor, in the time of dinosaurs, minding its own business, when a blob
If you’ve always wanted to discover a planet for your very own, now’s your chance. Researchers are calling on the
Almost 20 years after researchers first predicted electron quadruplets, evidence of their existence has been shown to occur in experimental
Your internal organs grow and change throughout your life, but rarely do they vanish without a trace. For baby octopuses, things
In the 6 million years since our ancestors first branched off from our ancient primate relatives, the volume of the
That’s what researchers concluded after analyzing rocks that China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft gathered from the moon in late 2020 and delivered
For the first time, physicists have been able to directly measure one of the ways exploding stars forge the heaviest
The mysteries to behold in the world’s vast oceans never cease to amaze us. Like this latest haul of deep-sea
A ruby that formed in Earth’s crust 2.5 billion years ago encases evidence for early life, wriggling around in the
A Jurassic graveyard in Patagonia, Argentina, holds more than 100 fossilized eggs and the bones of 80 Mussaurus patagonicus dinosaurs ranging in
Shane Campbell-Staton, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University, spent most of his career researching lizards. But at 3:00 am one
