Burning peat soils in the Arctic can blaze for days to months, releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide. | Continue reading
Previously unknown letters from the famous code-breaker Alan Turing have been discovered in an old filing cabinet in Manchester, England. | Continue reading
When a drought evaporated water in the Mosul Dam reservoir in Iraq, it exposed ruins from an ancient city. | Continue reading
A material that mimics shark skin, covered with tiny ridges and groves, may help reduce the spread of bacteria in hospitals, a new study suggests. | Continue reading
Researchers have modeled the universe for the first time using artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
Permafrost in the Canadian Arctic is melting way faster than scientists expected. That's bad news for the climate and local ecosystems. | Continue reading
Diet can influence the gut microbiome, but the same food can have the opposite effect on different people. | Continue reading
Water sinking into the ocean floor has contributed to 400 feet of sea level loss since the destruction of the supercontinent Pangaea, a new study shows. | Continue reading
Feral and indoor-outdoor cats are stone-cold killers responsible for billions of bird and mammal deaths every year in the United States. | Continue reading
There's a gargantuan secret buried under the largest crater in the solar system, and it weighs more than Hawaii. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence can produce a photorealistic image of a human face from an audio recording of that person's voice. | Continue reading
New simulations reveal a new state of matter that displays characteristics of both liquid and solid states. | Continue reading
Just a slight dip in the fertility rates of Neanderthals could explain their extinction over the course of several thousand years. | Continue reading
So far, the virus has only been found in northeastern China, but it could potentially have a much wider range. | Continue reading
Facebook will be a virtual graveyard. | Continue reading
A strange seismic event off the coast of Africa has led scientists to a mighty finding: the discovery of the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded. | Continue reading
This sneaky spider uses its web to catapult itself toward prey. | Continue reading
How the Romans introduced liquefied iron into the streets at Pompeii remains a mystery. | Continue reading
We can't see it. It might not be made of normal matter. Our telescopes haven't directly detected it at all. But it sure seems like it's out there. | Continue reading
Why is Mars so dry? A new paper might have the explanation. | Continue reading
In honor of the 2011 Nobel Prizes being handed out this week, here's a look back at a few of the worst decisions in the history of the venerable institution. | Continue reading
After these ripples in space and time pass through the universe, they may leave behind a sort of memory of their crossing. | Continue reading
Researchers have built a quantum computer prototype that can show 16 possible futures at the same time. | Continue reading
Orange you glad you've just seen the first-ever image of a black hole? | Continue reading
Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process is so convoluted that few can actually use it to tackle their problems. | Continue reading
The bigger they are, the easier they break? Not when it comes to asteroids, researchers recently discovered. | Continue reading
Belief in a punishing, moralizing god follows the rise of complex societies, new research shows. | Continue reading
New experiments addressed a decades-old theoretical question in physics, demonstrating that two realities can exist at the same time. | Continue reading
'Oumuamua is long gone, but it's still leaving scientists guessing. A new explanation proposes that the strange object was a "monstrous fluffy dust aggregate" produced by a busted-up comet. | Continue reading
The structures seem to come in all sizes and shapes, and archaeologists aren't sure what many of then were used for or when they were created. | Continue reading
The world's oldest classroom poster of the periodic table of elements, dating to 1885, has turned up in Scotland. | Continue reading
Even forensic detectives would have a hard time distinguishing between koala fingerprints and human ones. | Continue reading
Kelly Clarkson attributed her weight loss to a book called "The Plant Paradox," which advises people to cut lectins from their diet. But what are lectins? | Continue reading
A woman who couldn’t hear male voices was suffering from a rare form of aural impairment. What is reverse-slope hearing loss? | Continue reading
The greatest tsunami of them all led to the deaths of countless animals from the dinosaur age. | Continue reading
China's Chang'e-4 lander contains a living experiment that could lay the groundwork for agriculture at its future lunar base. | Continue reading
From unintentional irony to flat-out fraud, it has been another banner year for scientific retractions. Here are five notable ones. | Continue reading
Chimpanzees have much better working memories than humans, suggesting we may have underestimated their cognitive abilities. | Continue reading
An ancient temple in Indonesia hid underground for thousands of years. | Continue reading
To find life on Mars, scientists may need to "go deep." | Continue reading
Sometimes we miss one or two penguins, sometimes we miss millions. | Continue reading
The Earth's deep, underground ecosystems are nearly twice as big as the planet's oceans — and they could hold millions of undiscovered species. Thousands of scientists are racing to discover them. | Continue reading
The ground is shifting under Tehran, capitol of Iran. | Continue reading
Was this a 500-year-old fashion statement? | Continue reading
A burly "unicorn" once roamed the Eurasian steppes. | Continue reading
Some 3,700 years ago, a meteor or comet exploded over the Middle East, wiping out human life across a swath of land north of the Dead Sea. | Continue reading
It's long been thought that people inherit mitochondrial DNA exclusively from their mothers. But a provocative new study suggests otherwise. | Continue reading
In a few days, humanity will once again reach out and touch the surface of a foreign world. | Continue reading