The underwater city was named after the legendary Hercules, who ancient people believed actually visited the city. | Continue reading
When you look up at the moon, there may now be a few thousand water bears looking back at you. | Continue reading
Following the hottest June ever recorded, July 2019 may have been the single warmest month in history. | Continue reading
The mathematical proof took 30 years to be solved, but it's so simple and elegant that you can summarize it in a single tweet. | Continue reading
These 3D-printed liquid magnets can easily be morphed into various shapes, opening up a slew of biomedical and electrical applications. | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has mostly recovered from his year on the International Space Station, but the experience may have left him slightly more aged compared to his identical twin brother, Mark Kelly. | Continue reading
Burning peat soils in the Arctic can blaze for days to months, releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide. | Continue reading
Previously unknown letters from the famous code-breaker Alan Turing have been discovered in an old filing cabinet in Manchester, England. | Continue reading
When a drought evaporated water in the Mosul Dam reservoir in Iraq, it exposed ruins from an ancient city. | Continue reading
A material that mimics shark skin, covered with tiny ridges and groves, may help reduce the spread of bacteria in hospitals, a new study suggests. | Continue reading
Researchers have modeled the universe for the first time using artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
Permafrost in the Canadian Arctic is melting way faster than scientists expected. That's bad news for the climate and local ecosystems. | Continue reading
Diet can influence the gut microbiome, but the same food can have the opposite effect on different people. | Continue reading
Water sinking into the ocean floor has contributed to 400 feet of sea level loss since the destruction of the supercontinent Pangaea, a new study shows. | Continue reading
Feral and indoor-outdoor cats are stone-cold killers responsible for billions of bird and mammal deaths every year in the United States. | Continue reading
There's a gargantuan secret buried under the largest crater in the solar system, and it weighs more than Hawaii. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence can produce a photorealistic image of a human face from an audio recording of that person's voice. | Continue reading
New simulations reveal a new state of matter that displays characteristics of both liquid and solid states. | Continue reading
Just a slight dip in the fertility rates of Neanderthals could explain their extinction over the course of several thousand years. | Continue reading
So far, the virus has only been found in northeastern China, but it could potentially have a much wider range. | Continue reading
Facebook will be a virtual graveyard. | Continue reading
A strange seismic event off the coast of Africa has led scientists to a mighty finding: the discovery of the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded. | Continue reading
This sneaky spider uses its web to catapult itself toward prey. | Continue reading
How the Romans introduced liquefied iron into the streets at Pompeii remains a mystery. | Continue reading
We can't see it. It might not be made of normal matter. Our telescopes haven't directly detected it at all. But it sure seems like it's out there. | Continue reading
Why is Mars so dry? A new paper might have the explanation. | Continue reading
In honor of the 2011 Nobel Prizes being handed out this week, here's a look back at a few of the worst decisions in the history of the venerable institution. | Continue reading
After these ripples in space and time pass through the universe, they may leave behind a sort of memory of their crossing. | Continue reading
Researchers have built a quantum computer prototype that can show 16 possible futures at the same time. | Continue reading
Orange you glad you've just seen the first-ever image of a black hole? | Continue reading
Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process is so convoluted that few can actually use it to tackle their problems. | Continue reading
The bigger they are, the easier they break? Not when it comes to asteroids, researchers recently discovered. | Continue reading
Belief in a punishing, moralizing god follows the rise of complex societies, new research shows. | Continue reading
New experiments addressed a decades-old theoretical question in physics, demonstrating that two realities can exist at the same time. | Continue reading
'Oumuamua is long gone, but it's still leaving scientists guessing. A new explanation proposes that the strange object was a "monstrous fluffy dust aggregate" produced by a busted-up comet. | Continue reading
The structures seem to come in all sizes and shapes, and archaeologists aren't sure what many of then were used for or when they were created. | Continue reading
The world's oldest classroom poster of the periodic table of elements, dating to 1885, has turned up in Scotland. | Continue reading
Even forensic detectives would have a hard time distinguishing between koala fingerprints and human ones. | Continue reading
Kelly Clarkson attributed her weight loss to a book called "The Plant Paradox," which advises people to cut lectins from their diet. But what are lectins? | Continue reading
A woman who couldn’t hear male voices was suffering from a rare form of aural impairment. What is reverse-slope hearing loss? | Continue reading
The greatest tsunami of them all led to the deaths of countless animals from the dinosaur age. | Continue reading
China's Chang'e-4 lander contains a living experiment that could lay the groundwork for agriculture at its future lunar base. | Continue reading
From unintentional irony to flat-out fraud, it has been another banner year for scientific retractions. Here are five notable ones. | Continue reading
Chimpanzees have much better working memories than humans, suggesting we may have underestimated their cognitive abilities. | Continue reading
An ancient temple in Indonesia hid underground for thousands of years. | Continue reading
To find life on Mars, scientists may need to "go deep." | Continue reading