[ad_1] The ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a period shortly after the country was first unified,…
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[ad_1] Earth glows like a half moon while a giant aurora writhes over the North Pole in this ultraviolet image…
[ad_1] Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles…
[ad_1] Mammals first appeared on Earth over 200 million years ago, scuttling around alongside the dinosaurs as little mouse-sized creatures.…
[ad_1] About 1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections with viruses, bacteria or parasites, a new study finds,…
[ad_1] Cape Cod is known for its lobsters and its growing great white shark population, but now the holiday hotspot…
[ad_1] This year’s “super” El Nino means the U.S. will likely face a higher risk of stormy weather and flooding,…
[ad_1] A new AI tool that analyzes speech could give users a glimpse of how they are aging and whether…
[ad_1] The world’s smallest crocodiles use a sneak attack to hunt bats in hellish underground caves filled with poop, a…
[ad_1] Scientists have a new tool for mapping the universe’s perplexing acceleration.A Canadian telescope designed to chart the distribution of…
[ad_1] A powerful “Kelvin wave,” triggered by this year’s super El Niño, is creeping up the Pacific coast of Central…
[ad_1] Earth’s life-support systems are in peril — and they’re getting worse — but although the window for action is…
[ad_1] The largest defensive wall at Oued Beht. Archaeologists think its base was constructed about 4,000 years ago. (Image credit: G.…
[ad_1] Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 1,700-year-old limestone tomb with a rare poem inscribed on it in ancient Greek,…
[ad_1] An American spy satellite deployed during the Cold War has exploded above our planet without warning — and, so…
[ad_1] quick factsWhat it is: IC 348, a star-forming reflection nebulaWhere it is: 1,000 light-years away in the constellation PerseusWhen…
[ad_1] An enormous, ongoing cosmic “fart” is causing a mysterious zombie star to flare up repeatedly, shining bright pulses of…
[ad_1] One of the most famous full moons of the year will climb into the eastern sky on Saturday, Sept.…
[ad_1] History is rife with lost treasures, from Aztec gold hidden during the Spanish conquest to the Ark of the…
[ad_1] NASA is moving forward with designing a new space telescope that can see even deeper into the infrared universe…
[ad_1] Fusion-powered space travel has long held the promise of rapid trips across the solar system: Mars in weeks, Saturn…
[ad_1] Archaeologists have unearthed a monumental 2,700-year-old tomb at Vulci, an important ancient Etruscan town north of Rome. Despite repeated…
[ad_1] A Pacific cyclone dubbed Polo exploded from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 5 hurricane in less than…
[ad_1] Scientists may have settled a decades-long debate about bat evolution, including controversial questions about when bats began to communicate…
[ad_1] A metal detectorist in the west of Germany has discovered one of the largest hoards of Roman silver coins…
[ad_1] The ongoing El Niño is breaching the “super” threshold as Earth crosses into unprecedented climate territory.El Niño, officially underway…
[ad_1] NASA’s latest space telescope has officially taken its first photos of our universe. Launched on Aug. 30, the Nancy…
[ad_1] One of the longest-running meteor showers of the year began on Sunday (Sept. 20), as the Southern Taurids start…
[ad_1] More than two millennia ago, a ship carrying a wealth of iron sank in the Danube River in what…
[ad_1] Roman’s first test image shows hundreds of stars as green rings of light. After a few more months of…