Ancient 'Cockroaches of the Sea' Fossilized While Playing 'Follow the Leader' By Stephanie Pappas Trilobites fossilized in Morocco seem to have been buried by a storm as they marched in an orderly queue.
Underwater Volcano Creates Bubbles More Than a Quarter-Mile Across By Yasemin Saplakoglu In the early 20th century, sailors near Alaska reported seeing black bubbles seeming to boil out from the sea. They weren't wrong.
Game Over: These Monkeys Just Crushed Humans on a Computer Game By Nicoletta Lanese While playing a game, monkeys switched strategies each round, while humans stuck to a set of inefficient rules.
An Asteroid-Smashing Star Ground a Giant Rock to Bits and Covered Itself in the Remains By Rafi Letzter Good news for scientists. Bad news for any asteroid dwellers.
Why Did This Man's Taste Buds Disappear? By Rachael Rettner A man's missing taste buds would turn out to be a sign of an underlying blood condition.
The Man Who Found the Titanic Just Ended His Search for Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane By Yasemin Saplakoglu Two weeks and a multimillion-dollar search later, Robert Ballard said he has found no hint of it.
Watch Rare Footage of Whales Blowing 'Bubble Nets' to Capture Prey in a Vortex of Doom By Mindy Weisberger Underwater and airborne cameras recently captured an astounding sight: feeding whales producing bubble nets to trap their prey.
How the Nobel Prize-Winning Exoplanet Was Found By Paul Sutter The 1995 discovery showed that the sun isn't the only star to host a family of planets — something we had long figured but never demonstrated — and also that the universe is really, really weird.
Why Computers Will Never Be Truly Conscious By Subhash Kak Here's why computers will never be truly conscious.
17th-Century Dutch Smugglers' Shipwreck Comes to Life in Virtual Reality By Mindy Weisberger A virtual dive of a 17th-century shipwreck explores the remains of a ship used by the Dutch to secretly trade with Iceland.
Exotic 'Fuzzy' Dark Matter May Have Created Giant Filaments Across the Early Universe By Adam Mann Simulations help distinguish a cosmos containing fuzzy dark matter from one without it.
4,000-Year-Old Mummies Showed Early Signs of Heart Disease By Mindy Weisberger Five mummies dating to 4,000 years ago had cholesterol buildup in their arteries, hinting that humans have been susceptible to heart disease since ancient times.
Widely Publicized Study on CRISPR Babies' Gene Mutation Now Retracted for Errors By Rachael Rettner A widely publicized study that suggested that the first gene-edited "CRISPR" babies could have shorter lifespans has been retracted due to crucial errors in the analysis.
Scientists Want to Make a 3D Map of the Entire World Before Climate Change Ruins It By Brandon Specktor A nonprofit called The Earth Archive wants to make a 3D map of the entire planet, before the climate crisis changes Earth's face forever.
Bloody, Defeated Gladiator Drips Gore in Gruesome Fresco Uncovered at Pompeii By Mindy Weisberger Archaeologists recently discovered a colorful fresco of fighting gladiators on a tavern wall in Pompeii.
Why Are Healthy People Dying From Vaping? By Yasemin Saplakoglu The mysterious vaping outbreak in the U.S. has led to nearly 1,300 lung injuries and 26 deaths as of this week.
Faster-Than-Light Travel Could Explain Mysterious Signals Beaming Through the Cosmos By Erika K. Carlson But don't worry, no laws of physics are being violated.
2nd Interstellar Comet Looks Pretty Normal, Astronomers Say By Meghan Bartels Observations of the interstellar Comet Borisov have been flooding in for six weeks, and the more astronomers duplicate one another's work, the more confident they are in their analysis of the object.
Should You Eat Red Meat? By Scott Lear Over the past few years, studies have indicated eating red is bad for your health, but a new study seems to reverse that. So what should you do?
