This vast frontier served a very different purpose than previously believed, researchers suggest.

Fourteen years since one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Japan is getting creative in the effort to convince people that the contaminated soil is safe enough to be recycled.

A dead baby bird—found with 778 pieces of plastic in its stomach—has shattered a grim 15-year record.

Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished coastlines.

Scientists have been arguing about the origin of strange streaks on Mars since the earliest missions to the Red Planet.

To trace forgotten Viking trade routes, an experimental archaeologist spent three years braving frozen Norwegian waters.

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

"We’ve never seen them like we are now.”

For fans of The Last of Us season 2, this real-life fungal outbreak might feel uncomfortably familiar.

Carbon dioxide emissions from rising magma is one of the earliest signs that a volcano is waking up, but measuring it directly is notoriously difficult.

"If magnets are accessible to children, some children will inevitably ingest them, leading to a wide range of severe consequences."

Animal welfare organization TideBreakers is calling for international action, warning that a killer whale mother and her calf could be euthanized.

A new study reveals that you're more likely to remember solutions from aha moments than ones you reach intentionally.

“A student asked, ‘Yeah, but do the wrinkles always form in the same way?’ And I thought: I haven’t the foggiest clue!”

To settle lingering health fears, scientists blasted human skin cells with intense 5G signals to see if the radiation does any damage.

A potentially first-of-its-kind video filmed on a solar farm captures the strike-slip motion of the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake.

Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating near-misses.

We asked ChatGPT directly.

Researchers suggest that people with faster eye movement can see objects in motion that are invisible to others.

A new study reveals that uneven land subsidence could impact 29,000 buildings across the America's most populated metropolises.