Archaeologists working in Egypt have uncovered an extraordinary piece of ancient history: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad deliberately placed inside a Roman-era mummy during the embalming process. The discovery is believed to be the first...

A centuries-old religious text that never became part of the Bible, used by most Christians, is at the center of a viral online conspiracy theory. Social media posts claim the Book of Enoch describes a...

Scientists have identified the first true sugar ever detected in interstellar space, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how the building blocks of life reached Earth billions of years ago. The molecule, called...

For centuries, physicists have treated time as one of the universe’s most fundamental ingredients. But what if time isn’t something that exists independently? What if it only appears because things change? A new experiment from...

Imagine an airplane’s flight recorder, but built for an entire planet. That is the idea behind Earth’s Black Box, a massive steel structure under development in Tasmania that aims to preserve a permanent record of...

Earth has survived asteroid impacts, ice ages, and mass extinctions over its 4.5-billion-year history. But its greatest long-term threat isn’t an incoming space rock or a supervolcano; it’s the Sun itself. A new study suggests...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful tools in modern scientific research. Far beyond generating text or writing code, AI is now helping researchers analyze enormous datasets, identify hidden patterns, generate new...

Japanese researchers have uncovered what may be one of the richest hidden gold deposits ever identified beneath the ocean floor. The discovery was made at hydrothermal vents inside the Higashi-Aogashima caldera, about 350 kilometers (217...

Scientists have identified 73 previously unknown underwater volcanoes, a discovery that could improve understanding of one of Earth’s least-studied geological hazards. The findings, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, reveal dozens of potential volcanic...

For centuries, scientists and philosophers have wrestled with one of the deepest questions in physics: What is time? We measure it with clocks, organise our lives around it, and experience it as something that constantly...