Science
Scientists Discover Lost Ancient Landscape Hidden Under Antarctic Ice
The preserved terrains of Antarctica’s balmier past date back tens of millions of years, and contain clues about our future in a warming world.
An Ancient Space Crystal May Have Just Rewritten the History of the Moon
How old is the moon? Way older than we thought, it turns out.
Scientists Unveil ‘Missing Law’ of Nature That Explains How Everything In the Universe Evolved, Including Us
The universe contains “many evolving systems, and yet we don't seem to have a law of nature that adequately describes why those systems exist."
Alien-Hunting Scientists Shed New Light on Interstellar Metals Recovered from the Ocean
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and collaborator Michael McLeod have just published new analysis of metallic "spherules" recovered from the Pacific.
Mind-Blowing New Law of Physics Could Mean We Really Live in a Simulation, Physicist Proposes
“Being a simulation is a possible consequence (or conclusion)" of the proposed second law of infodynamics, physicist Melvin Vopson says.
A New Discovery Just Upended What We Know About Stonehenge's Mysterious Origin
A 100-year-old explanation for the origin of Stonehenge's Altar Stone was just debunked by a new study.
Scientists May Have Solved a Baffling Mystery at the Dawn of the Universe
The discovery of unexpectedly bright galaxies in the ancient universe has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a team thinks they have an answer.
People Experience ‘New Dimensions of Reality' When Dying, Groundbreaking Study Reports
Scientists recorded the brain waves of people in cardiac arrest to understand what happens to consciousness when we die.
Scientists Found Microplastics Deep Inside a Cave Closed to the Public for Decades
A Missouri cave that virtually nobody has visited since 1993 is contaminated by high levels of plastic pollution, scientists found.
Scientists Report Breakthrough Investigating Antimatter and Antigravity
“Everything about gravity and antimatter until now has been speculation,” said one scientist involved in the experiment.
Archaeologists Discover Lost Ancient Language on Mysterious Ritual Tablet
An unknown Indo-European language was discovered on a tablet with cultic ritual links in the long-lost capital of the Hittite Empire in Turkey.