Science

New research shows some US areas are reach­ing dan­ger­ous­ly hot tem­per­a­tures that exceed fan safe­ty thresh­olds near­ly dou­ble the amount from decades past.  Ana­lyz­ing hourly […]

Tiny min­er­al beads dis­cov­ered in the Pacif­ic Ocean off Papua New Guinea are pro­vok­ing intrigue about whether they could have crossed inter­stel­lar space before land­ing […]

The haunt­ing frozen fig­ures pulled from Vesu­vius’s dead­ly ash have long cap­ti­vat­ed vis­i­tors to Pom­peii. But a shock­ing new study indi­cates their plas­ter casts may […]

Sci­en­tists are on high alert as the 40-year wait for a reply from aliens to a mes­sage beamed into space ends today. In 1983, two drunk […]

A Michi­gan man made an out-of-this-world dis­cov­ery when he learned the doorstop on his farm was actu­al­ly an insane­ly valu­able mete­orite. David Mazurek could­n’t believe […]

Astronomers have made a ground­break­ing dis­cov­ery that defies our under­stand­ing of the cos­mos — an impos­si­bly hot plan­et-like object orbit­ing a dis­tant star that reach­es […]

You may have heard a lot about the gut micro­bio­me, the com­mu­ni­ty of microor­gan­isms that inhab­it your diges­tive tract. These microbes, most­ly bac­te­ria, have been […]

The night sky is about to become even more chaot­ic with the rare event of two back-to-back super­moons in August. These super-charged full moons can […]

South Africa is home to the world’s biggest gold reserves, but sci­en­tists have puz­zled over how these deposits formed for years. Excit­ing new research sug­gests […]

A colos­sal space rock big­ger than 10 bus­es piled on top of each oth­er is zoom­ing past Earth at a stag­ger­ing speed of 36,000 km/h. […]