Being shipwrecked on a tropical island might sound like an interesting (or even fun) adventure, but archaeologists are discovering that the reality was much different …
25 years ago, 1,700 of the world’s leading scientists issued a grim “warning to humanity.” Within, they explained that human activities were doing serious, irreversible …
An incredibly powerful type of fungal parasite that is known to turn ants into actual zombies is actually even more devious than was first thought. …
Crab and arthropods in general are often pretty creepy all on their own, but when you see one ruthlessly murdering (and eating!) a creature you …
When the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth many millions of years ago it spelled doom for countless species, while allowing many others (like mammals) the …
Not many people have been swallowed up by lava and survived — in fact, the number has to be somewhere around zero, if I had …
If you think the emergence of man was an inevitability, think again. The massive asteroid that struck Earth and triggered the mass extinction of the …
We may not live in a Star Wars-esque age of light speed travel and Death Stars, but that isn’t stopping the US military from turning …
Stem cell research has been a hotly debated issue for years already, but groundbreaking work utilizing stem-cell-grown human brain tissue is about to challenge even …
We humans like to pretend we know a lot about space and the various objects that we’ve observed in it, but at the end of …
Antarctica is a weird place. Scientists have long studied the behavior of its massive ice sheets and the land underneath them in the hopes of …
The idea of small groups of humans having control over some of the most powerful weapons ever to be built is scary, but it’s the …
Even if you have only cursory knowledge of the planets in our Solar System, you know that Earth is on the smaller end of the …
AI is everywhere. It’s in search engines and chat bots, and even built right into your next smartphone, and it promises to help make your …
Mankind has sent fancy robots and probes to a whole bunch of our nearest planetary neighbors and found nothing to suggest life exists (or ever …
There are lots of crazy people walking around on our planet, and even if they honestly believe some of the things they say — that …
Research into the conditions under which life originally formed has given scientists a lot of tantalizing clues in recent years, but a new discovery made …
When you see the skeleton of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex there are a number of things that pop out at you. The massive jaws lined …
You already know that humans are newbies when it comes to the age of the universe — in fact, “new” doesn’t adequately describe the incredibly …
Advancements in AI are happening at a breakneck pace, and they have been for some time now, but computers aren’t infallible. Some very interesting new …
NASA has lots and lots of hardware floating around in space, orbiting planets, and cruising around Mars, and when it wants to show off its …
Okay, okay, I know the future has, so far, been kind of lame in a lot of ways. Back in the 1950s, everyone assumed that …
This year has been packed with plenty of sights for skywatchers to enjoy, including the epic total solar eclipse from back in August, but there’s …
If you were about to embark on a journey into outer space there’s probably plenty of things that would be running through your mind. Whether …
Running into a single Portuguese Man O’ War can be an extremely frightening experience. With a bubbly top that keeps them afloat and jellyfish-like tentacles …
If you have any kind of a computer setup at home there’s a really good chance you also have a printer. And, if you have …
Being diagnosed with cancer doesn’t necessarily carry the same weight as it did a few decades ago, and treatments today have increased the survival rates …
As the subject of intense research for centuries, you might think Egypt’s massive pyramids have already spill all of their secrets, but it appears that’s …
You don’t have to have be a huge sci-fi buff to know that depictions of aliens in movies, video games, and books are almost always …
The Kepler space telescope has already made an absolutely incredible number of discoveries during its eight-or-so years spying the skies, and it just delivered what …
