Whether you prefer sweltering summers or frigid winters, significant temperature…
Scientists have discovered a deadly virus in the breath of whales that is causing mass deaths…
Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012.
Almost half—47 percent—of Americans say they think…
Long after Roman soldiers left Vindolanda, the fort’s sewer system kept a record of what plagued them most. Hidden in the sediment were parasites that reveal how disease spread through daily life near Hadrian’s Wall.
Researchers examining an…
NASA has released a stunning new map of the cosmos, one that the agency says could help…
People often stop physical effort not because their muscles fail, but because their minds do. New research suggests that swearing — long viewed as a social taboo — may help people push past that mental barrier, allowing them to sustain…
Although the remnants of COVID-19 are still lingering, it seems that another pandemic could be right around the corner.
According to a new simulation study published in BMC Public Health, scientists have now identified the narrow window when…
Jurassic Park may have exaggerated what mosquito DNA can reveal, but it got one thing right. Mosquitoes feed on an extraordinary range of animals — a habit that makes them unusually well positioned to sample the life around them.
A new study…
In a region of space not far outside of our Solar System, two separate collisions between space rocks have scattered an incredible amount of debris. The dust clouds at both cosmic crash sites, giving off a radiant glow from reflected starlight,…
Lurking in the ocean’s twilight zone — an area between 650 and 3,000 feet below the surface where light rarely reaches — is the seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus). Also known as the septopus, giant gelatinous octopus, or blob octopus,…