Discovery of Ancient Mongolian Saddle Rewrites the History of Horse Riding

‘This trippy optical illusion house by Roy Lichtenstein makes me question my eyes’

Black holes not only existed at the dawn of time, they birthed new stars and supercharged galaxy formation

Death’s Riddle: Scientists Decipher the Brain’s Final Signals

Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields

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Scientists Are Using Machine Learning To Decode The Language of Chickens

The smallest known molecular knot is made of just 54 atoms

Scientists Train AI Using Headcam Footage From Human Toddler

Big Companies Cashed In on Mississippi’s Water. Small Towns Paid the Price.

Remembering Stardust, the craft that traveled billions of miles and returned with extraterrestrial cargo

We’ve Already Seen Category 6 Hurricanes—Now Scientists Want to Make It Official

‘UFOs and Aliens: As a Scientist, I Believe in Both, But Here’s Where I Draw the Line’

Can psychopaths learn to feel empathy?

Massive Caverns Excavated for New Particle Accelerator in South Dakota

Zoozve — the strange ‘moon’ of Venus that earned its name by accident

NASA wants to put a massive telescope on the moon

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1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be ‘a fragment of an ancient ocean world’

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Seen in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

The next generation of mRNA vaccines is on its way

Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis?

Huge atom-smasher bid to find missing 95% of Universe

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Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist

Secret agent protein could help understand longevity and cancer

‘If you scream you are a dead duck’: At 14, my mother left me alone all summer – then the man with a knife found me

In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for Missing Matter

Stone Age People Used This 35,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tusk Tool to Make Rope, Scientists Say

Lunar science is entering a new active phase, with commercial launches of landers that will study solar wind and peer into the universe’s dark ages

‘How I got scammed’ (Cory Doctorow)

AI helps scholars read scroll buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD79

How Dangerous are Kilonovae?

The Biggest Snowflake Ever Recorded Is Much Larger Than You’d Think

The Story Behind The Corvette’s Failed Cousin, The Pontiac Banshee XP-833

How our drinking water could come from thin air

How Two Single Moms Escaped an Alleged Sex-Trafficking Ring and Ultimately Saved Each Other

Feldspar: The common mineral that’s always wet

‘Sudden Death’ Discovery Defies Our Understanding of Superconductivity

Will future colonists on the moon and Mars develop new accents?

How Could Laser-Driven Lightsails Remain Stable?

Plan to Resurface a Pyramid in Granite Draws Heated Debate

Sleepless and Sex-driven: How One Animal’s Breeding Season is Often its Last

State-of-the-art telescope in Chile to offer best view yet of universe

In a Medical First, a French Bulldog Puppy Spontaneously Regrew His Lower Jaw

Russian cosmonaut sets record for most time in space – more than 878 days [across multiple missions]

“Old Smoker” and the “Squalling Newborns”: Strange new star type discovered hiding in the Milky Way

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cacao

How the codpiece flopped

What Physicists Have Been Missing

Canada shipwreck: Newfoundland locals try to solve Cape Ray mystery

The US Is Selling Its Helium. Here’s What It Means for Balloons and MRIs

Archaeologists Discover a ‘High-End’ Blacksmith’s Iron Age Workshop

“Zombie” COVID-19 fragments linger for some, causing severe disease outcomes, new research reveals