Scientists mapping how seismic energy travels through Earth's mantle discovered two structures beneath Africa and the Pacific that rise up to 1,000 kilometers from the core-mantle boundary, roughly ...

The natural world has always fueled the myths and stories of Indigenous cultures. But what if some of those myths were inspired by animals that disappeared hundreds of millions of years before humans ...

A recent study reveals that certain prehistoric structures were repurposed long after their original use. The discovery was made near the village of Reinstedt in central Germany. Plans to develop a ...

The Cambrian explosion, beginning roughly 540 million years ago, is famous for the sudden appearance of major animal groups. Fossil sites such as Canada’s Burgess Shale capture that dramatic surge.

A stone wall deep inside a Greek cave stands as the oldest known human made structure. Dated to 23,000 years ago, it predates Egypt's Great Pyramid by over 18,000 years. In 2025, after nearly a decade ...

To reach this unexpected conclusion, researchers from the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health analyzed data from 487,194 participants with an average age of ...

Just a few miles can make a dramatic difference. Two neighboring cities may experience completely different levels of heat stress, simply because of their location, vegetation cover, or the extent of ...

On January 30, a rare event unfolded far above Earth. Swiss space surveillance company S2A Systems captured the moment a Russian satellite disintegrated, leaving multiple fragments along its orbital ...

The Ordos Basin holds an estimated 30 million tons of uranium, announced in January 2025 by the China Geological Survey. A second major deposit was discovered in July 2025 in the Tarim Basin at 1,820 ...

In March 2024, researchers at India's Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary spotted an otter on tiger camera traps. Unsure of the species, they returned in May with more cameras. Ten days later, the images ...

Norway proved government policy can reshape a market at scale. It also proved that success creates new problems. When electric vehicles become the default, subsidies stop accelerating adoption and ...

The Amazon Leo satellite constellation poses a growing threat to astronomical observations. According to researchers, these spacecraft are far too bright and could interfere with ground based ...