The ocean has a definite top predator. Sharks dominate discussions, in part due to their fearsome hunting abilities, and in ...

Uranus’s tiny moon Ariel may have had a subsurface ocean that made up around 55% of its total volume. By mapping craters, ...

Engineers at the University of Michigan are reimagining ancient basket weaving to design ultra-resilient materials.

The high-profile heist at the Louvre in Paris on Oct 19, 2025, played out like a scene from a Hollywood movie: a gang of ...

The stone, unearthed at the Karowe mine in northeastern Botswana, is now under study by the Gemological Institute of America ...

Bolivia’s Beni anacondas are apex predators, meaning no one messes with them in their ecosystem. Apart from a single case of cannibalism, no one had ever seen Bolivian anacondas getting killed or ...

Roney’s encounter was more awe than fear. Filming after sunset with another diver, he traced the jelly’s glowing form through the inky water of the Salish Sea, a place where cold Pacific currents mix ...

It turns out that was no fly. Hjaltason had captured one of Iceland’s first mosquitoes—a Culiseta annulata, one of the ...

Taki Allen, 16 years old, was doing what many teenagers do. He was hanging out after football practice at Kenwood High School ...

If you think of climate villains, you probably imagine oil rigs and coal mines, not cattle farms. But a new global analysis ...

There’s a common assumption that intelligence is largely determined by genetics. After all, previously published studies ...

Taftan looms 3,940 meters above Iran’s Makran subduction zone, a rugged region where the Arabian plate dives beneath the ...