A groundbreaking discovery in Kenya is shaking up what we thought we knew about the origins of tool use—and could rewrite the story of early human evolution. Archaeologists working in southwestern ...

In the late 19th century, a small group of cattle was left behind on Amsterdam Island, a remote spot in the subantarctic region. Against the odds, the herd survived and adapted to the island’s harsh ...

A vast, unseen world lies beneath Antarctica, and scientists are finally mapping it in stunning detail. A new study has revealed hundreds of enormous canyons carved deep below the ice — formations ...

Everything in the Universe spins. Stars, planets, galaxies – all caught in a cosmic dance. Some whirl one way, some the other. For decades, astronomers assumed it all evened out. But new data from the ...

More than seven decades after a mysterious series of light flashes were captured in California’s night sky, scientists are still debating what they mean. Two new peer-reviewed papers suggest that ...

A century-old heart medication derived from the foxglove plant could revolutionize how we treat cancer. Swiss researchers have discovered that digoxin can dissolve clusters of circulating cancer cells ...

While filming alongside Will Smith in the Amazon, a team of scientists made a jaw-dropping discovery that could rewrite the record books. Deep in the jungle, they uncovered a previously unknown ...

For more than a decade, the world has followed the story of a man from Newport trying to recover $742 million worth of Bitcoin from a landfill. Legal standoffs, futuristic recovery plans, and a ...

Forty-four leading scientists from fifteen countries have sounded the alarm about the potential collapse of the Amoc current. As global warming continues to weaken this massive oceanic system, they ...

What caused a Boeing 787 to crash moments after takeoff in India? The science outlet Futura has ruled out several possibilities and is now focusing on one crucial clue that could help explain the ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has just completed its first ground effect test for its high-speed vertical takeoff and landing aircraft concept—a futuristic X-Plane designed to carry cargo or troops as fast ...

Microplastics are everywhere—floating in our water, hidden in our food, buried in the soil, inside animal stomachs, and scattered throughout the planet’s oceans. Escaping them seemed impossible… until ...