Scientists have discovered a giant, fan-shaped structure that connects several well-known basins deep beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet —…
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Arctic ground squirrels gather food from a wide variety of sources and store it in burrowsGovernment of Yukon A rich…
Quantum memories, systems that store and retrieve information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, can outperform classical storage systems on some existing…
Indigenous Andeans in Peru may be able to digest potatoes and other starches more easily than anyone in the world,…
Scientists warn that the Trump administration’s push to dismantle a vital network of ocean-sensing instruments will stymie crucial weather and…
A pair of stars spiraling around each other. That’s the origin of a new source of repeating radio bursts we’ve…
Quick factsWhat it is: NWA 12774, a 16-ounce (454 grams) angrite meteoriteWhere it was found: The Sahara Desert, Northwest AfricaWhen…
A team in the US has reported promising results after using an improved form of CRISPR to gene-edit human embryos,…
SpaceX on Friday signed a blockbuster cloud computing agreement under which Google will pay the Elon Musk-founded rocket company $920…
The world’s largest known scorpion lived at a time when other land animals were relatively small, around 415 million years…
A tree-like form arises out of numerical connections in a famous maths puzzle known as the Collatz conjectureMarzio De Biasi/Algoritmarte…
Researchers have developed a method for making simultaneous soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurements of solid-liquid interfaces and bulk liquids.…
The best beginner telescopes need to strike the perfect balance between being user-friendly and affordable, yet still good enough to…
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…