Science

James Webb telescope pinpoints the most distant ‘fast radio burst’ ever seen, more than 10 billion light-years away

Astronomers have detected the most distant burst of radio signals ever seen: an explosion that's emitting waves of energy from more than 10 billion light-years away.The event, named FRB...

THE GEARBOX: The Revolutionary Power Expander That Helped Move Mankind Forward

By Gracus Bloom | Industrial Technology News There is a wonderfully misleading phrase sometimes used to describe a gearbox:...

Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests

The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a...

Star Metal: When Ancient People Worked Metal From the Stars

By Gracus Bloom | Historical Science & Archaeology Long before modern metallurgy gave humanity steel mills, electric furnaces and...

To Blend or Not to Blend? Four Vegetables Worth Eating Whole

Health News | Nutrition, food preparation and what really happens inside your blender The blender debate: Are we missing...

Skeletal remains of Queen Elisenda, one of the most powerful rulers in medieval Europe, unearthed in Barcelona — along with several others who bore...

Archaeologists working in a 14th-century monastery in Barcelona were surprised to find 25 skeletons when they opened eight graves — including the remains of...

Brilliant-green fireball meteor explodes over erupting volcano in the Philippines

Stunning new footage shows a bright-green "fireball" meteor exploding in the skies over an erupting volcano in the Philippines. Initial reports suggested that the...

AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is erasing the line between reality and illusion to the point where seeing is no longer believing. We need a...

Complex animals evolved up to 10 million years earlier than previously thought, fossil discovery shows

A trove of fossils uncovered in northwestern Canada suggests that complex animals evolved in North America earlier than previously thought.The site houses more than...

‘Last titan’ of Thailand discovered, and it’s the longest-necked dinosaur on record from Southeast Asia

Gigantic fossils discovered in Thailand reveal the "last titan," a long-necked dinosaur that lived up to 120 million years ago when the region was...

‘There are 4 people in those pixels’: Earth-based telescope snapped Artemis II crew orbiting the moon

In recent weeks, we've been treated to some truly incredible photos of NASA's historic Artemis II mission, including a dump of 12,000 images captured...