Twenty-seven massive vertebrae uncovered in Gujarat reveal an extinct ambush predator that rivaled the largest snakes ever ...

In February 2026, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) sent a short test email carrying the subject line “Hello Universe” from a newly built spacecraft processor, marking the start of ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania turned human blood cells into early sperm cells by transplanting engineered tissue onto a mouse’s kidney, according to a study published this month in ...

New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave suggests early humans were handling fire far earlier than once believed, deep inside a place no wildfire could reach.

A vast new gravitational wave catalog, known as GWTC-5.0, went online for the first time on May 26, 2026, adding 161 newly confirmed signals from colliding black holes and bringing the total number of ...

A slow, eastward-moving current of hot rock deep within Earth may be the primary force feeding Yellowstone’s volcanic system, according to a study published in Science on April 9, 2026. Researchers at ...

On a nighttime field survey in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a researcher spotted something on the underside of a leaf that looked exactly like a fungus consuming a spider. It had the pale, elongated growths ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

Between 3.4 million and 3 million years ago, the waterways of what is now Ethiopia harbored a crocodile large enough to take down the early human relatives living along the same shores. A University ...

A 13th-century Japanese poet recorded red lights in the northern sky over Kyoto. Eight centuries later, those words helped physicists track down a violent solar storm that struck Earth around the ...

Trees planted to protect crops from wind are driving away the migratory and wetland birds that depend on open farmland to survive. Agricultural conservation programs across Europe, North America, and ...

A fragment of rock pulled from the Sahara Desert carries what scientists now describe as the first direct evidence that a planet-sized world once existed in the early solar system before vanishing ...