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Organic molecules discovered within a stone on Mars cannot be fully explained by nonbiological processes, and it’s “reasonable to hypothesize” that living things could have formed…
In 1774, British physician-scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician: to spend time in a small room that was hotter, he wrote,…
Humans first developed complex and information-dense writing around 3000 B.C., when the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) invented cuneiform scripts. But new research suggests the…
Science news this week was filled with stunning space discoveries, with the largest map of the chaotic gas clouds at the center of the Milky Way…
In 1957, an amateur archaeologist working at a Native American site in Maine discovered a perplexing treasure: a 900-year-old silver Norse coin that dated to the…
More than seven millennia ago, Stone Age mourners in what is now Sweden buried a boy with a crown of woodpecker feathers and, in another grave,…
Researchers at the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI have published “Humanity’s Last Exam” — a test designed to measure how close today’s most powerful…
DNA is often considered the ultimate indicator of our identity — a foolproof way to determine our origins and how we connect to our parents and…
The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 5-inch Schmidt Cassegrain telescope is one of the most compelling beginner-friendly telescopes on the market — and with the total lunar…
After nearly four years of being covered in dark blotches like an acne-covered teenager, the sun’s face has suddenly turned smooth for consecutive days, hinting that…
