Browsing: Science

A Chinese spacecraft has arrived at one of Earth’s temporary “quasi-moons” and will soon attempt to land on the space rock to scoop up samples that…

Hunter-gatherers in Siberia fell victim to lethal plague outbreaks around 5,500 years ago, marking the oldest known evidence of plague to date, a new study finds.A…

Physicists recently wondered what would happen if you tried to split a photon ‪—‬ and they found some unexpected behavior that may transform the way we…

Corvids, including ravens and crows, have earned a reputation for being some of the smartest birds on Earth. They can recognize human faces, use tools, solve…

A giant blob of abnormally cold water in the North Atlantic Ocean is shifting the Indian summer monsoon, threatening the livelihoods of more than 1 billion…

The patient: A 28-year-old woman in New HampshireThe symptoms: In March 2020, the woman developed a high fever, chest tightness, shortness of breath and diarrhea, and…

QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Central Java, Indonesia [-7.34485373, 110.02748950]What’s in the photo? Mount Sundoro (left) and Mount Sumbing (right)Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on…

An elusive dwarf fox that was feared extinct has been photographed for the first time, after being spotted near a highway in Cozumel, Mexico.The tiny animal…

This Wednesday (June 17), for the first time in 11 years, people across North America will be able to look up in the daytime sky and…

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed an unusual burial of an injured man who was thrown into an abandoned kiln nearly 5,000 years ago. Because archaeologists don’t…