Comet Lemmon, photographed from northern Italy on 26th October 2025Marcel Clemens/Alamy I don’t think anyone declared it, but 2025 was…
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Canada on Tuesday launched a CAN$1.7 billion ($1.2 billion) program to recruit leading global researchers, part of the effort to…
An incredibly luminous star system that has long baffled astronomers could soon light up the sky with the nuclear brilliance…
Firefighters working in Spain in AugustPedro Pascual/Anadolu via Getty Images This year is set to be the second-warmest year on…
Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may be on the verge of becoming…
Homo floresiensis — a small ancient human species nicknamed the “hobbit” — may have gone extinct around 50,000 years ago…
Some researchers are concerned that tattooing brings health risksOlga Kolbakova / Alamy Tattoo ink collects in lymph nodes and interferes…
Americans use the f-word more frequently on social media than Australians or Britons, but Australians are more creative in its…
The celebrity comet 3I/ATLAS is showing itself out of our solar system for good — but not before the cosmic…
Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known visitor to our solar system from elsewhereInternational Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; J. Miller…
A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs), can accurately…
Just outside the gate of a 4,000-year-old city in China, archaeologists found a pit full of 80 skulls from human…
AI chatbots may have the power to influence voters’ opinionsEnrique Shore / Alamy Does the persuasive power of AI chatbots…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is invaluable in the medical world. But despite all the good it does, there is room…
For millennia, an ethnic group in what’s now southwest China placed their dead in “hanging coffins” on cliffsides, but their…
A cave near a site of ancient human occupation in the Arabian desertCourtesy Huw S. Groucutt, et al The dry…
For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their sights—trying to…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Guérou, Mauritania [16.930575400, -11.759622605]What’s in the photo? Three black mesas surrounded by unusual sand dunes in…
The Soyuz spacecraft blasting off on 27 NovemberRoscosmos space corporation, via AP/Alamy The International Space Station (ISS) may soon become…
A long-lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens sold at auction in France on Sunday for almost three…
Apple recently unveiled its all-new Apple Watch Ultra 3, and as the flagship model when it comes to the Apple…
Ironwood is Google’s latest tensor processing unit Nvidia’s position as the dominant supplier of AI chips may be under threat…
Every second, trillions of tiny parcels travel through your bloodstream—carrying vital information between your body’s cells. Now, scientists at the…
You may assume that children have nightmares about monsters under the bed, while adults dream about stressful events like deadlines.…
Ancient humans took two distinct routes to what is now AustraliaHelen Farr and Erich Fisher When and how ancient humans…
At any single time, retail investor welfare constitutes a key focus for regulators, and this is ramping up with the…
The Black Friday sale is in full swing, and while many are scrambling for discounted TVs and mobile phones, the…
Severe, poorly-controlled asthma could increasingly be treated with a monthly injectionJacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images People with severe asthma sometimes rely on…
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) begin to accumulate in the tissues of mammals already during the fetal stage, according to new…
Astronomers have observed a pair of stars locked in a death spiral, and their dance of doom is revealing more…