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Scientists have cooked up a new kind of building material from an ingredient more often found in bread, beer and pizza dough: baker’s yeast.The squishy, yeast-based…

QUICK FACTSName: Roman bath clogWhat it is: A wooden platform shoe with a leather top strapWhere it is from: Vindolanda Fort, Northumberland, U.K.When it was made:…

One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centers is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less…

A new theoretical study adds fresh support to the idea that a mathematical pattern of ripples in space-time geometry could give rise to naked singularities and…

Quick factsWhat it is: NWA 12774, a 16-ounce (454 grams) angrite meteoriteWhere it was found: The Sahara Desert, Northwest AfricaWhen it was shared: June 1, 2026Throughout…

Caves pockmark the world, extending deep into the bowels of Earth. Many caves are record holders, including one in Kentucky that’s the longest known cave system,…

On a blazing hot day in South Africa, female southern pied babblers can’t think straight. The medium-sized black-and-white birds are trying to get at tasty mealworms…

The Trump administration is targeting one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data — the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). According to the…

Surprise discoveries that were thousands of years in the making dominated this week’s science news, with scientists discovering that Ötzi the Iceman’s body was teeming with…

Of the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity is the one we experience most directly ‪—‬ it’s what keeps our feet on the ground and the…