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One of the best fall meteor showers peaks this week, when pieces of the famous Halley’s Comet streak across Earth’s atmosphere as fast-moving “shooting stars.”The Orionid…
Archaeologists have unearthed an 11th-century wooden kitchen gadget with an ancient board game carved into the back. Medieval bakers may have used the wooden paddle not…
A gene variant called APOE4 dramatically increases the risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. Now, emerging research is revealing APOE4’s true…
A drone powered by artificial intelligence (AI) has completed a championship race course faster than some of the world’s best human drone pilots.In a study published…
Tesla has unveiled a new “flying” version of its Roadster electric vehicle (EV) that uses SpaceX tech to pull off seemingly impressive airborne acrobatics.During a filmed…
Archaeologists have unearthed a Roman military camp in Spain, where they found fragments of weapons and metal tacks from soldiers’ shoes. The camp was used during…
This hammered copper artifact depicts an Indigenous person wearing a bird costume and holding a severed head and a mace.(Image credit: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural…
Rising temperatures around the globe are contributing to a range of health risks, from infectious disease to food insecurity and wildfire smoke. Extreme heat is another…
Aging is one of the biggest risk factors for developing glaucoma or cataracts — but as scientists look more closely at what happens to the eyes…
When millions of people died in Europe during the Black Death, biodiversity suffered too, new research suggests. The findings suggest that human activities once promoted biodiversity…
