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Popular AI chatbots often fail to recognize false health claims when they’re delivered in confident, medical-sounding language, leading to dubious advice that could be dangerous to…
“Extremophile” bacteria could survive asteroid impacts strong enough to launch them into space, a new lab experiment shows — hinting that these space-rock crashes could spread…
Archaeologists have discovered a century-old hoard of gold ruble coins underneath a house in northwestern Russia. The 409 coins were minted during the waning days of…
Between the 17th and 20th centuries, humans killed millions of whales for oil. They stripped their blubber, spinning the iconic creatures in the water and pulling…
Fragments of an early handgun found in Brandenburg, Germany, could be from Europe’s oldest known portable gunpowder weapon, according to new research.The artifact, which is about…
A seemingly dull rectangular stone, used as part of a foundation for an old barn in a Czech garden, is actually half of a rare Bronze…
Nature is full of relationships: predator and prey, parasite and host, competitor versus competitor. But there is another, often-forgotten relationship that involves species working together for…
The patient: A 16-year-old girl in the United KingdomThe symptoms: The teenage girl was referred to a pediatric-adolescent gynecology clinic in 1999, doctors wrote in a…
The universe-shaking collision of a black hole and a neutron star just led astronomers to a strange type of orbital interaction never seen before, and it’s…
The March equinox is almost upon us, which will usher in astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere and astronomical fall in the Southern Hemisphere.This year, the…
