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Archaeologists can estimate a person's sex with 95% accuracy, but many experts are focused on what can be learned about humans outside the m...

British naturalist David Attenborough celebrates his 99th birthday on May 8, 2025. Here are some incredible facts about the iconic broadcast...

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in high-altitude flight and a...

Metal detectorists in southwest England unearthed the two gold-and-garnet objects from the Anglo-Saxon period in January.

Sugar beets and spinach are the best vegetables to grow if you live in a temperate, midsize city during a nuclear winter, a new study sugges...

Wave-like soil patterns on the Martian surface match those found in Earth's cold, mountain regions, which could help scientists better under...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever created.

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a door with a bed du...

Exposure to extreme climate events will increase two to seven times more for those born in 2020 compared with those in 1960, a new study war...

An Irish startup has created the world's first silicon-based quantum computer — it can still integrate seamlessly with classical computing i...

This 2018 satellite photo shows an unknown substance swirling across the Gulf of Gdańsk in Poland. Scientists were shocked to later discover...

T. rex was previously suspected to have evolved in Asia and migrated to North America, but new research shows that the direct ancestors of t...

The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden population of lunar fra...

The ancient Egyptian fortress was in use around 2,000 years ago in the Sinai Desert.

Physicists have used a novel technique to observe individual atoms interacting in free space for the first time ever. The new technique conf...

Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were actually Danish sh...

Researchers studying pterosaur tracks have found that ancient flying reptiles became better adapted to life on land during the middle of the...

"It would recklessly slash NASA’s science budget by 47%."

Plans are underway to create new AI-powered drones that can fly for much longer than current designs.

Where will the failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 land when it crashes back to Earth in the coming week? Most major cities are in the poten...

The question of how the super-blue paint was made now has a second answer.

A new documentary explores the tragic final night of the RMS Titanic with the most detailed digital reconstruction of the ship ever created.

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it appears foreigners f...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study hints.