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

The first confirmed landslides on Pluto reveal debris traveling astonishing distances, exposing new clues about the dwarf planet’s volatile and active terrain. The landslides were identified by Marco ...

Giant squid DNA found in deep canyons off Western Australia reveals rare marine life across waters more than four kilometers below the surface nearby.

A tiny clue in Homer’s wording may relocate Odysseus’ lost kingdom, and the evidence hiding on Kefalonia is hard to ignore. After centuries of debate. James Diggle, emeritus professor of Greek and ...

ESA images reveal hundreds of dark “spiders” spreading across Mars’ Inca City as seasonal carbon dioxide geysers erupt beneath polar ice.

At a flooded uranium mine in Saxony, Germany, a microbial community reduced dissolved uranium concentrations by 96 percent over 130 days, without a single engineered bacterial strain being introduced.

A fragment of rock pulled from the Sahara Desert carries what scientists now describe as the first direct evidence that a planet-sized world once existed in the early solar system before vanishing ...

Over the last few weeks, there’s been a growing storm over the claims of some that the Covid vaccines are unsafe, that ivermectin is an unjustly suppressed miracle drug and related concerns. Much of ...

The emerald-colored jewel wasp (Ampulex compressa) parasitizes the common cockroach with a sophistication that beggars the imagination. Here’s how the morbid scene unfolds. The wasp begins by ...

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, ...

When H5N1 bird flu began spreading through U.S. dairy herds in early 2024, it confounded veterinarians almost immediately. The virus was causing severe infections in cows’ udders, not their lungs, and ...