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Scientists Find CBD in a Common Brazilian Shrub That's Not Cannabis

This wild plant grows across South America and contains CBD.

Spruce Trees Are Like Real-Life Ents That Anticipate Solar Eclipse Hours in Advance and Sync Up

Trees sync their bioelectric signals like they're talking to each other.

The Haast's Eagle: The Largest Known Eagle Hunted Prey Fifteen Times Its Size

The extinct bird was so powerful it could kill a 400-pound animal with its talons.

Miracle surgery: Doctors remove a hard-to-reach spinal tumor through the eye of a patient

For the first time, a deadly spinal tumor has been removed via the eye socket route.

A Lawyer Put a Cartoon Dragon Watermark on Every Page of a Court Filing and The Judge Was Not Amused

A Michigan judge rebukes lawyer for filing documents with cartoon dragon watermark

This Bold New Theory Could Finally Unite Gravity and Quantum Physics

A bold new theory could bridge quantum physics and gravity at last.

America’s Cities Are Quietly Sinking. Here's Why

Land subsidence driven by groundwater overuse is putting millions at risk.

This Priest Was Embalmed With Wood Chips Through His Rectum—And It Worked Surprisingly Well

A strange embalming technique emerges from the annals of history.

Japan 3D printed a train station. It only took 6 hours

Japan shows the world that 3D printing can save aging infrastructure even with limited labor and money.

Neanderthals Crafted Bone Spears 30,000 Years Before Modern Humans Came In

An 80,000-year-old spear point rewrites what we thought we knew about Neanderthals.

We Don’t Know How AI Works. Anthropic Wants to Build an "MRI" to Find Out

A leading AI lab says we must decode models before they decode us

Black smoke, no pope. But what's the chemistry behind the Vatican's white/black smoke?

No decision just yet.

This Bizarre Bacterium Conducts Electricity Like a Wire

Conducting electricity as a lifestyle.

Scientists find remnant of Earth's primordial crust in tiny crystals in Australia

A tiny zircon crystal might just be one of the oldest Earth relics ever found.

At 99, David Attenborough Releases "Ocean", The Most Urgent Film of His Life — and It Might Be His Last

Saving the ocean could be the only way

The world is facing a rising dementia crisis. The worst is in China

As the world ages, high blood sugar has emerged as a leading risk factor in developing dementia.

Why Whales Are Like Floating Fertilizer Tanks and It’s Saving Marine Life

Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding areas.

AI Reveals Title and Author of Scroll Burned by Vesuvius That No One Could Read for 2,000 Years

A particle accelerator and AI helped scholars read a scroll buried since 79 AD.

Climbing gyms are as polluted as busy city streets -- and shoes are to blame

Rubber particles from climbing shoes may expose gymgoers to levels of pollution found on city streets

Cicadacore: Scientists Turn Summer’s Loudest Insects into Musical Cyborgs

Researchers hijack cicadas' song organs to play music—including Pachelbel's Canon.

Tesla’s Sales in Europe Are Plummeting Because of Elon Musk's Borderline Fascist Politics

Tesla’s sales plunge across Europe as EV buyers turn elsewhere

How dogs and cats are evolving to look alike and why it’s humans’ fault

Human fashion can be as powerful as millions of years of evolution – and it’s harming our pets.

Mathematicians Just Solved a 125-Year-Old Problem That Unites Three Major Theories of Physics

A new mathematical proof connects atoms to ocean waves and jet streams.

Nature Built a Nuclear Reactor 2 Billion Years Ago — Here’s How It Worked

Billions of years ago, this uranium went a bit crazy.

Archaeologists Discover 1,800-Year-Old Roman Cavalry Horse Cemetery in Germany

These horses served the Roman Empire and were buried with military precision.

What Your Emoji Use Really Says About You, According to Science

If you use a lot of emojis, you'll want to read this.

How Declassified Cold War Satellite Images Are Helping Find Bombs and Mines Buried for Decades in Southeast Asia

Old spy satellites and new AI help unearth the hidden bombs of Southeast Asia.

Your Brain Data May be Up For Sale and It's Totally Legal (For Now), Say U.S. Senators

Lawmakers warn brainwave data could expose mental health and be sold without consent.

6 Genetic Myths Still Taught in Schools (That Science Says Are Wrong)

Many traits we learn as 'genetic facts' are more folklore than fact.

This Indigenous Group Doesn’t Sing to Babies or Dance—and It’s Reshaping Anthropology

Cultural trauma and loss can silence even the most human of traditions.

Why Should You Care if Stocks Go Down (or Up)? Here's What Economists Say

It doesn't matter if you own stocks or not. This also affects you.

This Chip Trains AI Using Only Light — And It’s a Game Changer

Forget electricity — this new AI chip from Penn learns using light.

Scientists Tracked Countless Outcomes of Spanking Children and Found Zero Benefits. On the Contrary, There Is Only Harm

Even in countries where it’s culturally acceptable, physical punishment leads to negative outcomes.

Humans are really bad at healing. But that also helped us survive

It's a quirk tied to our thick skin, sweat glands, and sparse body hair.

This ancient South American culture used ritual drugs to reinforce social hierarchy

High in the Peruvian Andes, archaeologists uncovered snuff tubes containing traces of hallucinogens.

This Scottish Field Could Be the World’s Oldest Football Pitch

A quiet Scottish pasture may upend everything we thought we knew about football’s birthplace.

Oldest Wine in the World Still in Liquid From Found Inside 2,000-Year-Old Roman Funeral Urn With Human Ashes

You wouldn't want to drink from this 2,000-year-old vintage though.

A Mysterious Warrior Society Buried 900 Artifacts on This Hill in Hungary 3,000 Years Ago

The artifacts may help archaeologists learn more about the chaotic transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age.

Ancient Chinese Poems Reveal Tragic Decline of Yangtze’s Endangered Porpoise

Researchers used over 700 ancient Chinese poems to trace 1,400 years of ecological change

Scientists Have Taken the First Ever Photos of Atoms Interacting in Free Space

The new quantum microscope shows particles behaving exactly as predicted by theory.

Finland Just Banned Smartphones in Schools

Do you agree with this approach?

This Rat Found 109 Landmines and Just Broke a World Record

Ronin and other HeroRats have been training to smell landmines since they were six weeks old.

Astronomers Just Found a Faint Speck That Might Be the Missing Ninth Planet

A new discovery could reshape the Solar System's edge.

AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Retirement Savings

Artificial intelligence isn’t just powering search engines and chatbots—it’s increasingly guiding your financial life, especially your retirement planning. If you’re saving for the future, odds are good that AI is already involved in shaping your path, even if you don’t realize it. From robo-advisors suggesting your 401(k) allocations to algorithms forecasting your life expectancy, AI […]

A Former Intelligence Officer Claimed This Photo Showed a Flying Saucer. Then Reddit Users Found It on Google Earth

A viral image sparks debate—and ridicule—in Washington's push for UFO transparency.

This Flying Squirrel Drone Can Brake in Midair and Outsmart Obstacles

An experimental drone with an unexpected design uses silicone wings and AI to master midair maneuvers.

Oldest Firearm in the US, A 500-Year-Old Cannon Unearthed in Arizona, Reveals Native Victory Over Conquistadores

In Arizona’s desert, a 500-year-old cannon sheds light on conquest, resistance, and survival.

No, RFK Jr, the MMR vaccine doesn’t contain ‘aborted fetus debris’

Jesus Christ.

“How Fat Is Kim Jong Un?” Is Now a Cybersecurity Test

North Korean IT operatives are gaming the global job market. This simple question has them beat.

This New Atomic Clock Is So Precise It Won’t Lose a Second for 140 Million Years

The new clock doesn't just keep time — it defines it.