Science
A mysterious radio signal from deep space repeated every 36 minutes for eight days, and astronomers still cannot find the object that produced it
Africa is splitting in two in slow motion, and geologists have found the crack where a new ocean is being born
The secret of prime numbers could be written inside black holes, and physicists are exploring whether the strangest objects in the universe hide mathematics’ oldest mystery
2,000-year-old skulls in Vietnam reveal that ancient communities permanently blackened their teeth, a stylish practice that survived long after the people who wore it disappeared
A new theory suggests gravitational waves could modulate the light emitted by atoms, as if every atom carried a tiny trace of the universe’s deepest vibrations
A remote volcano in Iran appears to be waking after 700,000 years of silence, and the signal from Taftan is forcing scientists to look again at a mountain considered dormant
Construction workers in Sweden uncovered six centuries-old shipwrecks where no one expected them, and the discovery has opened a forgotten chapter beneath modern ground
An adorable dinosaur chick has been discovered in South Korea and named Dooly, but behind the cartoon name lies a fossil that could change its ancient lineage
Astronomers may have witnessed two planets colliding in space, and the event is so rare that it could rewrite how we understand the violent birth of solar systems
Neither fish nor nuts: the food that could help boost memory and neural development is a humble tuber that many people still overlook
Ancient DNA from the North Sea reveals a lost forest beneath the waves, and suggests that 16,000 years ago Europe and Britain were still part of a vanished world
An American high school student used artificial intelligence to map 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, and the result has stunned scientists who thought the sky had already been searched
Construction workers in northern England were digging through ordinary ground when they uncovered a 2,200-pound cannon that may have been buried for more than 300 years
A student picks up a fragment of fossilized resin, and suddenly invisible trade routes that crossed half of Europe 5,400 years ago appear
The early warning signs of esophageal cancer may be hiding in everyday discomfort, and scientists warn that what looks like routine reflux could arrive much earlier than expected
An underwater camera has filmed a shark in Antarctic Ocean for what may be the first time, and the unexpected sighting is forcing scientists to redraw a frozen boundary
A super-Earth has been discovered just 10 light-years away, which could harbor an atmosphere and water, but reaching it with current technology would take us about 15,000 years









