Hydrogen cyanide kills humans almost instantly. But when frozen into crystals, it becomes surprisingly creative. New research shows it may have been the key ingredient in life's origin.
The ocean absorbs billions of tons of CO2 annually, our biggest ally against climate change. New research shows microplastics may be disrupting this critical process.
Quantum physics says particles can behave like waves. A new experiment just demonstrated this with a cluster of thousands of atoms, the largest 'quantum object' ever observed in wave form.
For a century, everyone assumed the Valley of the Kings had given up its secrets. Then archaeologists found Thutmose II, great-great-great-great-great grandfather of King Tut.
For 35 years, one number defined what fusion reactors couldn't do. Chinese scientists just proved it wrong, and the implications are enormous.
Thousands of 3,500-year-old sling stones piled outside palace walls. Arrowheads. Burned buildings. Hasty burials. Homer's Iliad may have been history all along.
A rare condition turns food into alcohol inside the body. Scientists have finally identified the microbes responsible.
At extreme pressures, water becomes something impossible: a solid that flows like a liquid and conducts electricity. It may explain why Uranus and Neptune are so weird.
New research reveals that slow-wave sleep doesn't just consolidate memories. It shifts where your brain processes them entirely.
A biotech company claims to have created the first modern dire wolves using 13,000-year-old DNA. Is de-extinction finally real?
A Neanderthal pressed their ochre-stained finger onto a stone in Spain. Researchers now argue it's one of the oldest known artistic expressions.
Bob Ballard, who found the Titanic, is now searching for the most famous lost tomb in history. What they've found is remarkable.
Carbon dating from a Tamil Nadu archaeological site suggests iron technology in India may predate the accepted timeline by nearly 2,000 years, challenging everything we thought we knew.
Fresh excavations at Troy have uncovered thousands of sling stones, arrowheads, and hastily buried bodies dating to exactly when the Greeks said the war happened.
In 1966, Japan's birth rate plummeted 25% because of a centuries-old superstition about women born in Fire Horse years. As 2026 begins another such year, will history repeat?
In 2026, performative offline became the new performative online. How micro-communities and authentic connection are replacing the algorithm-driven feed.
After a decade of documenting everything, people are finally putting down their phones. Welcome to the social exit, 2026's quiet rebellion against constant connectivity.
After decades of digital everything, a growing movement is rejecting screens in favor of physical objects, analog hobbies, and the irreducible presence of real things.
In German caves, researchers filmed rats standing upright and snatching bats from the air. It's changing what we know about rodent behavior.
Microcapsules embedded in coatings can now detect damage and seal it within hours. How biology inspired the next revolution in materials.
A molar found in a Siberian cave has yielded the oldest high-coverage ancient genome ever sequenced, rewriting our understanding of human evolution's most mysterious relatives.
Scientists recovered 40,000-year-old RNA from a frozen mammoth, revealing which genes were active in its final hours. This changes everything we thought we knew about extinct species.
Honeybees have mental number lines, can add and subtract, and understand zero. Their tiny brains are rewriting what we thought cognition required.
From D-Wave's scalability breakthrough to Google's error correction milestone, quantum computing keeps achieving what experts said was impossible.
New research reveals a troubling pattern: AI tools improve our performance while simultaneously making us believe we're even better than we actually are.
After years of scanning with cosmic rays and advanced technology, researchers are finally ready to reveal what lies inside Khufu's most mysterious void.
Longitudinal research reveals a surprising connection: babies who look longest at new things grow up to score higher on IQ tests years later.
New research reveals the Romans breathed lead-laced air for centuries, potentially poisoning their minds and hastening the empire's collapse.