Scientists Are Racing to Unearth the Secrets of an Ancient Underwater World
Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.
This ‘Artificial Sun’ Just Smashed Its Own Nuclear Fusion Record.
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in Heifei, China, a testbed for the long-awaited (and now delayed) ...
There Are Scars in Our Universe That Could Unlock Time Travel, Physicists Say
Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...
Chinese Scientists Have Developed a Powerful New Microwave Weapon: A Converged Energy Beam
In 2024, seven vehicles in western China each transmitted a high-powered microwave beam that converged precisely in both time ...
Scientists Found a Strange Life Form Caught in an Evolutionary Time Loop
“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...
Archaeologists Uncovered An Ancient ‘Boundary Stone.’ Its Inscription Could Alter Roman History.
Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...
Archaeologists Accidentally Found the Incredible Lost Remnants of America's First Soldiers
The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.
Inside the Fight to Untether Kidney Dialysis Patients From Their Bulky Machines
For the almost 520,000 Americans who will undergo treatment this year, the process leaves little room for a full life. An innovative new device could change everything.
Scientists Just Solved the Mystery Behind This Strange Celestial Object
An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...
Scientists Think An Ancient Interloper Once Disrupted Our Entire Solar System
When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...
Scientists Invented Molecular ‘Chainmail’ That’s Way Stronger Than Kevlar
Researchers at Duke University then added the ‘chainmail’ to a material known as Ultem, which is in the same family as Kevlar ...
Scientists Once Thought These ‘Little Red Dots’ Broke Cosmology. Now, They’re Not So Sure.
Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of ...