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Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a 'Dune'-like sandwormA site in southwestern China holds a wide array of strange life-forms that emerged prior to the Cambrian explosion, and it pushes back the origin of complex life by millions of years.
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Physicists created an electron 'catapult' that moves particles at 'extraordinary' speedUsing a new method, physicists found a way to "catapult" electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.
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Ultrafast quantum chemistry engine could speed up the development of new medicines and materialsThe powerful software can reduce the time needed to simulate reactions with large molecules from weeks to just minutes.
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Strange rocky world found lurking on the edge of 'inside out' planetary systemAstronomers have spotted an unusual 'inside-out' planetary system where a rocky world seems to have formed far beyond the realm typically reserved for gas giants.
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Something supercharged Uranus with radiation during Voyager flyby 40 years ago. Scientists now know what.Forty years ago, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and observed radiation levels that defied explanation. Now, scientists may finally know exactly what happened.
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Saltwater crocodiles crossed the Indian Ocean to reach the Seychelles — before humans arrived and wiped them outA DNA study reveals crocs that lived in the Seychelles represented the westernmost population of saltwater crocodiles, having swam at least 1,800 miles to reach the island.
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'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thoughtJupiter is smaller and flatter than scientists previously thought, new measurements of the gas giant reveal.
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Life may have rebounded 'ridiculously fast' after the dinosaur-killing asteroid impactAfter the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study finds.
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James Webb telescope breaks own record, discovering farthest known galaxy in the universeThe James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.
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Critical moment when El Niño started to erode Russia's Arctic sea ice discoveredScientists discover a tipping point that took place in 2000, where El Niño’s effect on sea ice loss in Siberia was amplified.
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Standard model of cosmology holds up in massive 6-year study of the universeThe six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid — but both fail to explain one key observation.
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Scientists see monster black hole 'reborn' after 100 million years of restScientists saw an inactive black hole 'reawaken' from a 100-million-year nap with fire and fury.
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James Webb telescope discovers earliest Type II supernova in the known universeAn extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
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Rare nocturnal parrots in New Zealand are breeding for the first time in 4 years — here's whyThe 2026 breeding season for endangered kākāpō could produce the most chicks in decades.
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James Webb telescope saw black holes emerging from 'cocoons' near the dawn of timeThe gaseous cocoons surrounding "little red dots" hint at their true nature, a new James Webb telescope study hints.
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Huge ice dome in Greenland vanished 7,000 years ago — melting at temperatures we're racing toward todayScientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of the century.
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'How can all of this be happening?': Scientists spot massive group of ancient galaxies so hot they shouldn't existAn inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic evolution.
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Giant 'cow of the Cretaceous' discovered almost 100 years ago identified as new duck-billed dinosaurThe dino lived during the Late Cretaceous alongside other hadrosaurids in present-day New Mexico.
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1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed — and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolutionA never-before-seen Homo erectus face reveals a complex picture of early human evolution.
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Earth's seasons vary wildly, even at the same latitude, new research findsEarth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals.
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Undersea lava rubble acts as a 'sponge' for carbon dioxide, study findsLava rubble at the bottom of the sea is acting like a giant "sponge" for carbon dioxide, ancient cores reveal.
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Pumas in Patagonia started feasting on penguins — but now they're behaving strangely, a new study findsPumas in Patagonia, Argentina are eating penguins in a national park — and it's changing how the big cats are interacting with each other.
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Stunningly preserved Roman-era mosaic in UK depicts Trojan War stories — but not the ones told by HomerA newfound mosaic draws inspiration from "Phrygians," a play by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus that survives only in bits and pieces.
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'It is simply too hot to handle': 2024 was Arab region's hottest year on record, first-of-its-kind climate report revealsThe Arab region just had its hottest year on record, a new climate report reveals.
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