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A new study pinpoints the origin of the STD to South America.
The magnetic North pole is now closer to Siberia than it is to Canada, and scientists aren't sure why.
This TV screen vanishes at the push of a button.
A New York couple stumble upon an ancient mastodon fossil beneath their lawn.
Cartels are Mexico's fifth largest employer. They are recruiting faster than the government can arrest them.
The new system can turn cockroaches into cyborgs in under 70 seconds.
California ground squirrels surprise scientists with their newly discovered taste for mammalian flesh.
Fasting benefits metabolism but may hinder hair regeneration, at least in mice.
An ancient human lineage roamed Europe's frozen tundra for nearly 80 generations. Then they died out.
New research reveals how being watched triggers unconscious hyper-awareness.
This massive coral oasis offers a rare glimmer of hope.
The most explosive fuel in the universe could power humanity’s first starship.
It's Britain's bloodiest prehistoric massacre.
New research challenges old stereotypes about gaming’s impact on well-being.
Creating synthetic lifeforms is almost here, and the consequences could be devastating.
Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.
Mathematician claims to have cracked the annoying puzzle of fitting a sofa around a corner.
Two spacecraft will create artificial eclipses to study the Sun’s corona.
As it turns out, there's more to generosity than just what you believe.
Could a humble bacterium hold the key to surviving cosmic radiation?
Scientists have stumbled upon the semi-Dirac fermion, first predicted 16 years ago.
Warm days may ignite the Red Planet’s huge dust storms.
Knots are a test of physical intuition and most of us are failing hard.
The surprising way crocodile scales form offers a glimpse into how evolution works beyond genes.
A new technique allowed scientists to spot the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt.
New study reveals ancient rituals, a carved turtle, and clues to early human gatherings.
Could next-generation geothermal energy finally fulfill its promise of ridding us of fossil fuels for good?
A tiny diamond battery could power devices for thousands of years.
New data confirms a puzzling rift in the universe's expansion rate.
AI technology has promised us many advances and 2025 looms ahead of us. Will the outputs match the promises?
If you needed another reason to get a good night's sleep — here it is.
Scientists have identified evidence of a new ancient human species, Homo juluensis, from fossils in East Asia.
Life on Earth exists on a scale that defies human imagination.
We thought we knew what neurons looked like. Guess again.
What's for dinner? For the Clovis people, the answer is likely 'mammoth'.
Jellyfish-like creatures pull off a bizarre fusion, linking their bodies and nervous systems.
Ancient hunter-gatherers shattered gender stereotypes with shared mastery of running, climbing, swimming, and diving.
When man piss in wind, wind piss back, a modern Confucius states. In this line, the city of Hamburg ingeniously sought to address its growing public urination problem in the city's busy party center by painting walls with hydrophobic paint. Next time an unsuspecting person wants to take a load off in Hamburg's St. Pauli neighborhood, he might be in for a surprise - it'll splash back at him.
Darwin called them "purposeless", but emotional tears have their place.
Hundreds of tiny tools attached to battle belts suggest ancient barbarians used stimulants for war.
AI agents could make life much easier for people with disabilities. But there's a dark side to it.
A potential da Gama shipwreck may rewrite maritime history.
Scientists have developed spray-on electronic tattoos that could be a game-changer in brain monitoring.
Could this be triboluminescence at scale?
You ever got so crazy you started wearing a salmon as a hat?
At a German campsite, 15,800-year-old engravings reveal how Ice Age people used fishing nets.
Quantum computing meets the timeless oscillation of time crystals in a breakthrough experiment.
James Webb's infrared vision sheds light on star-forming regions in the Sombrero Galaxy.
A single gemstone from Myanmar holds the title of Earth's rarest mineral, kyawthuite.
The ambitious and top secret project was supposed to withstand a first strike by the Soviet Union, but it ultimately couldn't withstand nature's cold embrace.
