One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens’ gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980. Similar behavior has been seen at Chile’s…
The longest known underwater cave in the world is even longer than we thought.
As of the start of this year, cave divers have mapped 524 kilometers (325.6 miles) of a subterranean water ‘web’ near Tulum, Mexico, called Sistema Ox Bel Ha –…
For many of us, Bigfoot belongs in the same category as UFOs and campfire ghost stories – fun to talk about, but not something we expect to find in our backyard. But for a passionate network of Bigfoot hunters across North America, the creature…
Have you ever wondered if your cat could be a cold-blooded killer?
Perhaps it was the way…
The idea that humans might communicate through chemical signals called pheromones has captivated scientists and the public for decades, inspiring countless studies in search of proof.
In animals, pheromones are well understood. Ants follow…
One of the strangest mysteries about our Earth is the presence of two dense, giant blobs inexplicably clustered above the planet’s core.
Now, new models might reveal where they have come from, and it’s neither of the expected origin stories….
From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms
It’s a lesson that many language learners have learned the hard way: While the words of a familiar language are distinct, the words of an unfamiliar one are often tricky to tease apart, blurring together as a single sound. But why does the…
More than 50,000 years ago, life was not going well for the Neanderthal who later became known in the scientific community as “Chagyrskaya D.” He was living with relatives, including his adolescent daughter, in a cave in the Altai Mountains…
