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Deadly male funnel-web spider 'Hercules' breaks record as biggest ever discovered"Hercules" the funnel-web spider is the largest male of the species ever found.
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Tsunamis up to 90 feet high smash into New Zealand every 580 years, study findsA new method of assessing tsunami risk in New Zealand finds that giant waves could hit the country's shores once every 500 years.
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Rare clotting effect of early COVID shots finally explained — what could that mean for future vaccines?Scientists have offered a new explanation for why COVID-19 vaccines that contained adenoviruses carried a rare-but-serious risk of blood clotting.
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'Lightning-like energy bursts' could be used to track the 99% of space junk that can't be seen from EarthCurrent methods of tracking space junk in Earth's orbit only follow objects bigger than a softball. A new technique could trace the 99% of junk that's smaller.
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Vaccine for superbugs? New shot shows promise in early testsA new vaccine, so far tested only in mice, broadly activates the immune system against a wide array of bacteria and fungi.
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Solar storm from 1977 reveals how unprepared we are for the next 'big one'New research finds that solar storms vary in strength over surprisingly short distances, and the current network of sensors may not be enough to properly prepare for future outbursts.
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Baboon mummy DNA from ancient Egypt reveals location of mysterious port city not on any mapsA new DNA study suggests that the lost realm of Punt and the port city of Adulis may have been in the same place, separated by time.
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The sun may be smaller than we thoughtNew calculations suggest the sun is a few fractions of a percent smaller than previously estimated, and that could change how we study it.
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A 'protoplanet' that created the moon may be hiding deep inside EarthMystery blobs in Earth's mantle may be chunks of a Mars-sized space rock that crashed into our planet 4.5 billion years ago, scientists discover.
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Dust from the dino-killing impact ushered in years of global darknessThe Chicxulub impact threw sulfur gas, soot and dust into the air. New research finds that the dust may have been the most devastating.
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Scientists decode 'LEGO protein' that makes sperm swimScientists have decoded a protein from sea-urchin sperm that's also found in other animals, including humans, raising a new potential avenue for treating male infertility and developing male birth control.
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Distorted crystals use 'pseudogravity' to bend light like black holes doResearchers have used a special crystal to bend the trajectory of light like a black hole would, a phenomenon known as 'pseudogravity.'
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California's supervolcano has a massive lid that causes swarms of earthquakes — and that's a good thing, scientists sayA dormant supervolcano in California's Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains lets off the occasional earthquake swarm, but new evidence suggests it's simmering down.
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Mystery blobs in Earth's mantle may be linked to ancient gold and platinum that arrived from spaceThe gold and platinum that came from giant space rocks should have sunk into Earth's core instead of rising to the crust. Scientists have now worked out how this happened — and it may explain some really weird blobs deep in our planet's mantle.
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Scientists finally solve mystery of why Europeans have less Neanderthal DNA than East AsiansModern Europeans have a smaller proportion of Neanderthal genes in their genomes than East Asians do. New research suggests the reason lies at the feet of migrating early farmers.
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Scientists discover ghost of ancient mega-plate that disappeared 20 million years agoA long-lost tectonic plate dubbed 'Pontus' that was a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean was discovered by chance by scientists studying ancient rocks in Borneo.
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China discovers never-before-seen ore containing a highly valuable rare earth elementA new ore, dubbed niobobaotite, was discovered in Inner Mongolia's Bayan Obo deposit and contains the rare earth element niobium — a valuable metal that acts as a superconductor and could revolutionize battery technology.
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15 Martian objects that aren't what they seemFrom Martian 'faces' to blueberries and bears, the Red Planet has long tricked human minds into seeing signs of life that aren't there.
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James Webb telescope finds potential signature of life on Jupiter's icy moon EuropaThe discovery of seemingly home-grown carbon dioxide suggests Europa's ice-covered ocean could be habitable.
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Bizarre blob-like animal may hint at origins of neuronsPlacozoans, animals so simple they look like blobby pancakes, have been found to contain cells that may hold the ancestors of modern neurons.
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RNA extracted from a extinct Tasmanian tiger for the 1st timeResearchers analyzed RNA from the 130-year-old tissue of a Tasmanian tiger, a carnivorous marsupial that went extinct nine decades ago.
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Earth's biggest cache of pink diamonds formed in the breakup of the 1st supercontinent 'Nuna'The Argyle formation in Australia, which hosts 90% of the world's pink diamonds, formed when the first supercontinent broke up.
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Blood transfusions might transfer proteins involved in brain hemorrhage — but it would be incredibly rareThe risk of a rare type of brain hemorrhage may be transmissible, though the absolute risk is very low.
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World's 1st mountaintop impact crater discovered in northeastern ChinaA two-peaked mountain in northeastern China is the site of the world's first confirmed mountaintop crater.
