For years, debates about Stonehenge have swung between gritty human effort and sweeping natural forces. Some picture sledges, ...

As a new launch window to Mars approaches in autumn 2026, an eye catching claim from Russia is making the rounds again. The country’s nuclear giant says it is developing a plasma engine capable of ...

For years, it operated largely out of the spotlight. Yet today, this Dutch company sits at the very heart of the global tech industry. By betting early on a technology many experts believed was nearly ...

A team of researchers has successfully recovered part of the oldest known star catalog, attributed to the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, widely regarded as the father of astronomy. This catalog, written ...

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 ...

A study published December 10, 2025 in Nature has unveiled what researchers now consider the oldest known evidence of deliberate human fire making, dating back around 400,000 years. Until now, ...

Beneath its icy crust, Europa may conceal a salty ocean larger than all of Earth’s oceans combined. Shielded by miles of ice, warmed from within, and rich in active chemistry, this moon of Jupiter ...

The molecules: decane, undecane, and dodecane are hydrocarbons, long chains of carbon and hydrogen more commonly associated with petroleum on Earth. Their size alone sets them apart from previous ...

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.

At the heart of this study is a well-known molecule: glycogen, a chain of glucose (sugar) used by our body as an energy reserve. Researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at ...

When infants get congested, the urge to clear their nose quickly can backfire. A pediatrician explains what works, what to avoid, and why the tool in your hospital bag may not be the best option. A ...

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 ...