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A widely publicized study that suggested that the first gene-edited "CRISPR" babies could have shorter lifespans has been retracted due to crucial errors in the analysis.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?
Brilliant Midnight Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Northeast China By Tariq Malik What appears to be a dazzling meteor lit up the sky over northeast China on Friday (Oct. 11), appearing as a brilliant fireball in surveillance video of the event.
Humans Will Never Live on Another Planet, Nobel Laureate Says. Here's Why. By Yasemin Saplakoglu Here's the reality: We're messing up the Earth and any far-out ideas of colonizing another orb when we're done with our own are wishful thinking.
Why Are Some Places Snubbing Columbus Day? By Malinda Maynor Lowery More and more towns and cities across the country are electing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day as an alternative to — or in addition to — Columbus Day.
See the Full Hunter's Moon Shine Bright Tonight By Yasemin Saplakoglu October's full moon, called the Hunter's Moon, will rise tonight (Oct. 13), reaching its peak fullness at 5:08 p.m. ET.
Who Owns the Arctic? By Emma Bryce Several countries are launching claims to vast swathes of the Arctic seabed. But what does that mean for political and environmental stability in the region?
What's The Biggest Animal That a Snake Can Swallow? By Grant Currin A complex network of skull bones, ligaments and muscles allows a snake to swallow prey with bodies much larger than the sinuous predator's own head.
