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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a radio signal leaves a distant planet, it does not immediately travel through empty space. First, it has to pass through the turbulent environment surrounding its home star, and that short ...

Winter rain fell on Collins Glacier when snow should have been building the glacier’s surface. On King George Island, near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula, researchers saw exposed brown, ...

The last execution in Great Britain took place in 1964, but Tory politicians still periodically raise the possibility of reinstating capital punishment in tub-thumping speeches designed to convince ...

A Conversation between Alex Byrne, Holly Lawford-Smith and John McLaughlin John: What is the phrase assigned sex at birth (ASAB) meant to convey? Does it imply that the recording of infants’ sex is ...

In 1964, US President Lyndon B. Johnson made a historic request: he wanted a large-scale, nuclear-powered desalination programme to address the growing need for potable water in the American Southwest ...

If you infect a rabbit with a virus or a bacterium, it’ll start to run a fever. Why? The surprising answer is that fever is not a disease; it’s a defence: a useful evolved mechanism that animals use ...

Long before the latest iteration of cancel culture, there was a punishment known as damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of a person’s memory). First explicitly defined in the statute books of ...