Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as well as the shapes of its compone…
A nearly 28,000-year-old cave lion cub, discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost, is so well preserved, you can still make out each and every o…
Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaur…
A 21,500-year-old cave painting depicting an aurochs, an extinct cattle species, in the Lascaux caves in France. At least 20,000 years ago, humans …
The mystery of whether microbial alien life might inhabit Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons, could be solved by an orbiting space probe, accord…
A supermassive black hole is racing across the universe at 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h), and the astronomers who spotted it don't know why. The f…
Have you played the puzzle game Tangram? I remember, as a child, being fascinated by how just seven simple wooden triangles and other shapes could of…
With the current U.S. inflation rate at 7.1% , interest rates rising and housing costs up, many Americans are wondering if a recession is looming. …
A new species of confuciusornithid bird being named Confuciusornis shifan has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in northeastern…
Multiple NASA telescopes recently observed a massive black hole tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close. Located about 250 million lig…