The northern lights are a stunning show of red and purple lights, but scientists are revealing new secrets about much rarer blue lights.
One of the biggest scientific mysteries is where life on Earth started.
Endangered Abyssinian Wolves Observed Pollinating Flowers in Ethiopia, Making Them the First, Large Carnivorous Animal to Do So.
A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans - cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals - that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago.
Ancient footprints in Kenya unveiled Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei coexisting 1.5 million years ago, unlocking fascinating clues about their shared world.
A newly discovered gold ore deposit in China is not just massive—it’s described as "supergiant." Chinese experts claim it could be the largest precious metal deposit in the world.
There is just one specimen of mineral known as Kyawthuite crystal, in the world.
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, an underwater volcano in the Tongan archipelago, erupted violently on January 15, 2022. According to a new study though, two faraway monitoring stations recorded a seismic wave some 15 minutes earlier.
Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch.
Life on Earth may have developed the ability to form embryos even before it grew the very first animals.
The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text.
A compound found in a parasitic fungus that commonly paralyzes and kills caterpillars has been shown to block pathways critical for the growth of some cancers.
In a remarkable medical breakthrough, doctors have successfully used stem cells to treat a debilitating eye condition that can lead to vision loss.
Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent for the first time.
In a discovery that challenges basic physics principles, researchers have shown that under specific conditions, a laser beam can block light and cast a visible shadow.
