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Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It’s among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many structures built by the Romans…

Cephalopod evolution has long had a missing chapter in its story: how did squid-like ancestors give rise to today’s octopuses? The answer, it turns out, was…

quick factsWhat it is: Gamma-ray burst GRB 250702BWhere it is: 8 billion light-years away, in the constellation ScutumWhen it was shared: Dec. 8, 2025A gamma-ray burst…

It’s a long-held idea that turtles can tuck their heads into their shells when threatened. But is it true? And is this protective trick why turtles…

Milestone: Humans reach the South PoleDate: Dec. 14, 1911Where: Geographic South Pole, AntarcticaWho: Roald Amundsen and his crewIn 1910, a fierce competition began between Norwegian explorer…

While diving off the coast of Egypt, underwater archaeologists found the 2,000-year-old remains of a boat that may have been a luxurious “pleasure barge” for the…

Around 6,200 years ago, a teenage boy survived a brutal lion attack in what is now Bulgaria — although deep holes in the youngster’s skull suggest…

Usually, we get tattoos on purpose. But some injuries leave us with a different type of mark known as a “traumatic tattoo” — and these tattoos…

It has been an exciting week in science news, with our understanding of human evolution and animal behavior taking interesting turns. But before we dip into…

Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor — a behavior never documented in cephalopods. They captured the…