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About 40 minutes after it landed on Mars on July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander sent this first photo from the surface of the Red…
Redheads are a rare breed, with people who sport ginger locks making up less than 2% of the global population. With such low numbers, would it…
Science word of the day: CenozoicPronunciation: See-noh-ZOH’-ihkWhat it means: The ascendency of mammals, the birth of the Himalayas, the diversification of birds — Earth’s in its…
Archaeologists in El Salvador have uncovered the unusual burial of a face-down human skeleton that was interred along with a ceramic vessel shaped like a sea…
Shark Week 2026 is here! This year’s highlights include experiments testing great white intelligence, Molly Carlson’s death-defying freefall dive into a reef shark feeding frenzy, and…
When OpenAI recently revealed that two of its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models had escaped the confines of a cybersecurity test and hacked into a…
Beyond familiar particles such as electrons and protons, scientists have discovered a zoo of “quasiparticles” with exotic names, such as magnons, angulons, dropletons and polaritons. But…
Science word of the day: LithicsPronunciation: LITH’-iksWhat it means: In archaeology, lithics refers to artifacts made of stone. Scientists used to think Homo sapiens was the…
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare and unusual burial of premature twins in a 1,200-year-old tomb near the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in Turkey. Although the…
An outbreak of parasitic illness linked to iceberg lettuce is affecting nine U.S. states, federal health officials have announced. That’s up from the five affected states…
