The discovery of a 400,000-year-old human-made fire in eastern England is reshaping one of the most fundamental questions in archaeology: When did humans learn to control fire, and how did it change us? The newly...

The race to understand the rarest blood group on Earth has taken a surprising turn. Scientists in Thailand have identified an exceptionally uncommon hybrid blood type, known as the B(A) phenotype, found in only three...

Most people associate cosmic tails with comets, those brilliant streams of gas and dust trailing behind icy bodies as they race around the Sun. But Earth, too, has a tail. And unlike a comet’s shimmering...

A bold archaeological claim out of Italy is once again stirring debate around Egypt’s ancient pyramids. Earlier this year, two researchers argued that colossal man-made structures lie 3,500 feet beneath the Giza Plateau—a depth far...

A breakthrough treatment built from gene-edited immune cells has reversed aggressive and previously incurable blood cancers in patients who had run out of options. The therapy, developed by scientists at University College London and Great...

A 520-million-year-old fossil discovery in China is reshaping what scientists know about the earliest ancestors of today’s arthropods. The fossil, Youti yuanshi, contains a miniature brain, nerves, digestive glands, and traces of a circulatory system—all...

TL;DR Hubble has captured a striking new photo of 3I/ATLAS—the third confirmed interstellar object to visit our solar system—revealing a massive teardrop-shaped halo and an unusual “anti-tail” stretching sunward. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says this...

On October 30, 2025, a transatlantic flight went into free-fall for no obvious reason. The aircraft involved, a JetBlue Airways A320 en route from Cancún to Newark, suddenly lost altitude over Florida, forcing an emergency...

For the first time in decades, researchers may be inching closer to what many in the medical world have called impossible: a practical, scalable approach to a long-term HIV cure. A small study conducted at...

For decades, scientists have theorized that life’s earliest ingredients arrived on Earth aboard ancient asteroids and comets. Now, a new finding from NASA’s analysis of asteroid Bennu adds an unexpected twist: the chemical precursor to...