A Roman marching camp uncovered during construction in Šurany, Slovakia, provides long-suspected evidence of Roman military activity north of the Danube. © Workers ...
The discovery was made by paleontologist Tim Churchill and colleagues at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), who described three extinct species and two new genera belonging to the newly named ...
Astronomers have identified a planetary-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf in the nearby star system CD-35 2722, creating a rare three-level orbital arrangement involving a star, a brown dwarf, and a ...
The 1961 Idaho reactor explosion was over in milliseconds, but the disputed cause and troubling design flaws remain unsettled decades later. Investigators determined that the excessive control rod ...
A 3,046-kilometer green belt around the Taklamakan is now pulling more CO2 from the air than the desert emits. A study published in January 2026 in PNAS now reports a measurable outcome that nobody ...
Colorado homes may be hiding an invisible killer linked to 21,000 deaths a year, and most families never see it coming. In Colorado alone, the CDPHE estimates radon contributes to around 500 lung ...
A 518-million-year-old marine fossil from southern China has provided the earliest known evidence of the anatomical structures that later evolved into the fangs and pincers of modern chelicerates.
Moments before a person dies, some relatives and close companions report experiencing visions, sensations, or encounters that appear connected to the dying process. Unlike near-death experiences (NDEs ...
For decades, astronomers expected Omega Centauri to contain thousands of black holes but could not find them. By following the subtle motion of one star, Hubble and Webb have now uncovered the first ...
Your dominant hand may not be naturally better after all. A strange elbow-writing test exposed what years of daily practice quietly changed. © Your Dominant Hand May ...
In 1858, a batch of sweets sold in Bradford, England, killed 20 people after arsenic was accidentally used instead of a harmless powder in their production. The disaster involved a popular hard candy ...
Two massive earthen walls on the Dahshur plateau, long dismissed as construction ramps, may actually be the remains of a 4,550-year-old dam system built to tame floods and supply water for one of ...