Hoover Dam is a gravity dam. But if you take a water bottle up there on certain days, it sure looks like the opposite.

Deep in the Sahara Desert, surrounded by nothing but space and sand, hundreds of ancient human skeletons have lain for thousands of years. Who were they? And what were they doing ...

In 89 BCE, when the residents of Pompeii rebelled against Rome, the Empire pulled no punches in its attempts to quell the ...

The time-lapse camera was set up by Coral Morphologic in the Port of Miami to monitor the condition and growth of the corals there. Starting on May 1, 2023, the camera has since become the world’s ...

The worst-case scenario is a nuclear incident, and that's something that worries us the most,” Balkhy told POLITICO. “As much as we prepare, there's nothing that can preven ...

The first quantum battery prototypes are tiny, but they confirm what theoretical physicists had predicted: a capacity to store energy almost unbelievably quickly. The team who dev ...

Of the many lead sling bullets discovered at Hippos over the last 26 years, this is the first to carry a message of some kind.

London, had a mystery on its hands. A rather attractive, triangular, but ultimately mysterious lump of blue mineral. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access ...

Sure, we want to study how different systems form and why many look different from our own, but we would also like to find Earth-twins: habitable worlds that might host life. Researchers have now ...

Divers were searching the Bermuda Triangle for lost WWII planes when they found an odd – and clearly human-made – artifact ...

A committee of non-experts cannot be said to embody ‘fairly balanced […] points of view’ within the relevant scientific ...

Researchers have found a way to work out how to separate two classes of celestial bodies.