Millions of black holes are lurking in the Milky Way. Here’s how to spot them
Let's find the missing black holes!
Hot pavement can cause second-degree burns within seconds
... and thanks to climate change, the Apavement will be hot much more often.
Quick blood test could detect Alzheimer’s 20 years in advance
This could usher in a new age of Alzheimer's research.
Old pesticide pollutants are melting out of glaciers
Yet another consequence of climate change.
People who believe in conspiracy theories also more likely to believe in pseudoscience
Careful, they might be watching us.
Heat-free metallic print can form electronic circuits on soft surfaces (flowers, gelatin)
Printing electronic circuits on a flower never looked so appealing.
European cities aren’t built to deal with this kind of heat
There is a lot to learn -- and a lot to change.
How simple subtractions can stump even mathematicians — and why that matters for understanding our brains
Don't let your brain put real-life information into math problems.
Chile oil spill: 40,000 liters spilled in pristine Patagonia
Oil spills strike again.
It’s so hot in Finland’s Lapland the reindeer have hit the beach
They didn't seem to care about anything other than cooling down.
Ethiopia “breaks” tree-planting record: 350 million trees in a day
If this is true, it's very good news.
How scientists are looking for signs of ancient life on Mars
We've learned so much about Mars, but pressing questions still remain.
More than 70% of America’s packaged food is ultra-processed — and it’s a big problem
Eat less processed food!
TESS telescope discovers three intriguing close-by exoplanets
The solar system is very different from our own.
Huge sauropod bone discovered in France
The huge bone belonged to one of the largest creatures to ever walk on land.
Heatwaves ravage through Europe — will become the new norm
Climate crisis.
Case closed: scientists solve 33,000-year-old murder case
Cold case: solved.
Ripping the desert apart: Stunning images show Ridgecrest earthquakes shattering the ground
These are among the best images of this kind.
This tree stump shouldn’t be alive — but it’s fed by its neighbors
Are trees superorganisms?
Gorillas have ‘old friends’ and other elements of complex societies
We might not be the unique species we like to consider ourselves.
Unhatched birds communicate with each other by vibrating shells
It's a remarkable communication and adaptation mechanism.
“Havana syndrome”: study finds key changes in Havana diplomats’ brains
Something did seem to happen -- but let's not get carried away.
Stunning animation shows how Marsquakes look like
Ever wanted to feel a marsquake?
Eulogy for a glacier: Scientists honor Iceland’s first glacier lost to climate change
It's a stern reminder that we are changing the face of the planet.
Global warming fuels rise of dangerous fungal infections
Yet another consequence of global warming rears its ugly head.
If everyone ate enough veggies, we wouldn’t have enough to go around
We need the world to produce more fruits and veggies -- and we need to convince people to eat more...
Viking man, horse, and dog found in extremely rare type of burial
It's one of the first times this type of burial will be analyzed with novel equipment and techniques.
NASA produces stunning map of all the exoplanets we’ve discovered
The map is amazing.
Cigarette butts are damaging plants, new study shows
Please don't litter cigarette butts!
Groundwater in the US is overused — and deeper wells isn’t a solution
Are you using water sustainably?
Historian unearths more solid evidence of the Armenian Genocide
Probably the largest genocide you probably haven't heard about.
Natural compound found in grape skins, berries, and red wine, could help Mars explorers stay fit
It doesn't necessarily have to be red wine...
People don’t really care about rigged games — as long as they win
The rich get richer -- but they think the game is fair.
Menstrual cups are cheap, effective, and just as reliable as tampons, large-scale study shows
Have you considered trying menstrual cups?
How fast is the universe expanding? We may need to recalculate
It's one of the fundamental universal features -- and we're still struggling to understand it.
Are dinosaur fossils minerals? The legal answer to that is surprisingly important
Every once in a while, a scientific matter will spill into the courtroom — this is the case with the...
This is what quantum entanglement looks like
The first images of spooky action at a distance.
By 2050, many cities will have hot weather like they’ve never seen
How hot will your area be in 2050?
Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
A worthy recognition for one of the world's greatest scientists.
Over 1 million people join Facebook event to ‘storm area 51’ and ‘see them aliens’
No one: The internet: Let's storm Area 51!
Japan just landed a shuttle on an asteroid
It's a remarkable achievement.
Oldest known velociraptor relative was a chicken-sized feather-covered predator
It could teach us a thing or two about how flying emerged, too.
Oldest human skull out of Africa forces us to rethink migration timeline
Was this an isolated individual, or part of an earlier wave of human migration?
Plant-based meat is about to get cheaper than animal meat
Veggie burgers -- yay or nay?
Climate change denial might soon be abhorred as slavery, says David Attenborough
"I am sorry that there are people who are in power … notably, of course, the United States but also...
French scientists develop new class of promising antibiotics (so far, only in mice)
It's still early days, but the results are exciting.
France to stop reimbursing homeopathic treatments
The reason is pretty simple: there's no evidence that it works.
HPV vaccine will also be administered to boys in the UK, preventing thousands of cancers
It's an important step towards eliminating some types of cancer.
X-Rays and lensing tricks help researchers spot black hole spin
A black hole was spinning as fast as is theoretically possible.