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Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. But what was the loudest sound…
The celebrity comet 3I/ATLAS is showing itself out of our solar system for good — but not before the cosmic paparazzi at Earth’s space agencies snap…
Archaeologists digging at a Mesoamerican site in Mexico have discovered an unusual, cube-shaped human skull. It is the first evidence that people in this area practiced…
Archaeologists in France have discovered three ancient storage jars brimming with tens of thousands of Roman coins. The vessels were buried in pits 1,700 years ago…
In 30 B.C., Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII died by suicide after they were defeated by Octavian’s forces in a civil war.But what if Antony and…
Milestone: Chemotherapy agent sends leukemia into remissionDate: Dec. 6, 1954Where: Sloan Kettering Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College in New YorkWho: Gertrude Elion and colleaguesIn 1954,…
This week’s biggest science news took us to a region 140 million-light-years away, where scientists have discovered the largest spinning object in the known universe. The…
An influential vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has voted to eliminate the recommendation for universal vaccination of newborns against…
A gigantic cluster of sunspots — collectively around the same size as the one that birthed the largest solar storm in recorded history — has just…
In 1903, residents of the small town of Dexter, Kansas, gathered to celebrate a newly drilled natural gas well.Crowds flocked to the well for the lighting…
