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Forty-three years ago, a few ground squirrels were released into the area devastated by the eruption of Mount St. Helens, and now scientists believe they were the unexpected heroes of the ecosystem’s recovery
From the United States to Australia, via Brazil and India: a world map showing the places where snakes have been observed devouring members of their own species
Earth’s first major extinction event was worse than we thought and may have wiped out nearly 80% of species 550 million years ago
An analysis of food remains found in pottery dating back 5,000 to 8,000 years is changing what we knew about prehistoric European cuisine
Hubble captured a comet breaking apart in real time purely by chance, and the odds of seeing it happen at that exact moment were remarkably low
Researchers have analyzed 136 weapons using carbon-14 dating and have been able to pinpoint exactly when the bow-and-arrow era began in North America
They heated them to 900°C (1,652°F) for 8 hours, and something unexpected happened: the rice husks and palm fronds barely formed the dreaded “rocks” that clog boilers… and Colombia might have a more reliable rural fuel than we thought
They found a giant tooth embedded in the neck of a plesiosaur, and the “culprit” was not a marine reptile, but a massive predatory fish
The AI analyzed 1,974 unclassified tracks and raised some very troubling questions about the “bird tracks”
El Niño could return as early as May through July 2026, and the latest official forecasts point to a possibility that has many experts on alert
They tried to slow down the advance of the Sahara with millions of bees… and they “melted” at over 70 °C. However, the solution that works is not biology, but geometry on the ground
A pesticide that has been in use for decades may be causing wild fish to age from the inside out, even at doses so low that they do not kill the fish immediately
The United States has never built anything like this before: now a startup wants to bury a small nuclear reactor 6,000 feet underground, with a target date of July 2026
Jumbo is recalling 14- and 28-ounce bags of frozen green beans after several customers reported a discovery that was as disgusting as it was unsettling
What they observed over the course of 90 minutes in the branches of a tree in the midst of a storm seems straight out of a science-fiction novel: 41 ultraviolet flashes invisible to the human eye and a major unanswered mystery
NASA observes the Sahara from the International Space Station and detects a gigantic eye nearly 50 kilometers wide, whose origin is not as cosmic as it seems
Twenty-two giant blocks from the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria have been recovered from the seabed, and this discovery is rewriting the history of one of the world’s most famous wonders









