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Waves supercharged by El Niño hit the California coast in 2016Eliason/Zuma Wire/Shutterstock A “Godzilla El Niño” is coming, according to…
Galactic collisions are events of breathtaking proportions. The supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers plunge into a chaotic orbital…
Ötzi the Iceman’s skin and stomach are teeming with yeasts that infiltrated his remains shortly after his murder 5,300 years…
The drug daraxonrasib is being put forward to treat people with advanced pancreatic cancer in clinicsREUTERS/Danielle Villasana A daily pill…
The “soil” blanketing the moon’s surface isn’t actually soil. It’s a fine, lethal, abrasive powder of shattered rock and jagged…
(Image credit: © Forum Gesseler Goldhort)QUICK FACTSName: Gessel gold hoardWhat it is: 117 gold objectsWhere it is from: Syke, northern…
Particles of light cannot be divided into smaller particles, but if you try to snip off the end of one,…
Few creatures inspire as much universal dislike as ticks. Though small, these parasites have an enormous impact on human and…
Around 1 in 5 Americans say they’ve seen a ghost. I’m not one of them, and I probably never will…
A father mysteriously slips through time in Joseph Eckert’s The TravelerMikhail Rudenko / Alamy Writing this as the UK swelters…
Radar data from an agricultural area in South Africa, shown in a vivid color palette, reveal crop types and how…
QUICK FACTSName: Fingal’s CaveLocation: Staffa, ScotlandCoordinates: 56.4314, -6.3412Why it’s incredible: The cave is formed entirely of hexagonal volcanic rock columns.Fingal’s…
Paul Erdős made many conjectures about numbers in his lifeOliver Helbig/Getty Images Just a week after an AI disproved an…
With the 2026 cotton planting season in full swing, research out of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station provides a fresh…
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have unearthed a clay pot full of gold, silver and gemstone-encrusted jewelry that may have been…
Gold doesn’t tarnish like other metalsmauritius images GmbH/Alamy Silver goes dull, copper turns green and iron rusts, but gold always…
If the eastern red-backed salamander has an equivalent of Usain Bolt, Sophia Zaslow is determined to find it. Since her…
Researchers have developed a system that uses short videos of the eye to estimate a person’s levels of red blood…
Sometimes, you work tirelessly on a problem, only to realise you have been going about it all backwards. Imagine trying…
You’re on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you’ve been tasked with establishing the first self-sustaining food crop on…
Hochosterwitz Castle in southern Austria(Image credit: INTERFOTO via Alamy)Castles were a common sight in the Middle Ages, which lasted from…
Health officials working to tackle Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 21 MayMichel Lunanga/Getty Images A…
A study of one of the world’s longest-running disaster warning systems—desert locust monitoring—finds surveillance limits damages and generates returns of…
Babies and small children do not handle dry air as well as adults. Their skin and airways are still developing,…
We may now know how Mercury gained its ice depositsNASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Around 100 million years ago, the surface…
Dark matter is an elusive form of matter that almost never emits, absorbs or reflects light, while only weakly interacting…
There’s a new T. rex in town, but this one didn’t hunt on land. It ruled the ancient seas.Scientists have…
Hot flushes are associated with the menopause, but women actually get progressively hotter from the start of adulthood to midlifeDmitry…
New research from a Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences doctoral graduate could help producers better protect poultry…