More than 200 meters underground in a Spanish cave, Romans carved prayers to a mysterious goddess into walls Ice Age people had marked…

A newly discovered microbe doesn't split in two like ordinary cells. It grows its young inside itself, then bursts open to release them, and what's happening inside before that happens is stranger tha...

Ten people imagined familiar melodies without making a sound. What their neural activity revealed was detailed enough for researchers to reconstruct the actual notes.

Everyone assumed the loudest person in the room was proof. Turns out the math was lying, and the most skilled people may be the most deluded about their limits.

Your brain contains cells that aren't yours, and may never have been. What exactly your mother's DNA is doing in there remains, somehow, an open question.

One airborne compound keeps every other female in a colony infertile, and it doesn't require anyone to be in the room to work. What else are we missing?

What do a pandemic that erased itself from memory, bull sharks with a decade-long romance, a dime-sized fossil mislabeled for decades, and a dying star that might be giving birth to a new universe hav...

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New oversight panels and a whistleblower memo raise the stakes, but a still-unreleased helicopter encounter report leaves the biggest question untouched.

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The ovary stops making eggs and medicine calls it done. New research suggests it just switched departments. What is it actually doing?

The DNA said the same two sharks had pups together years apart. Bull sharks were supposed to be solitary. What else have we gotten wrong?

Big Bear's bald eagle Jackie is still in critical condition after her rescue, though she's alert, eating and "fighting" in rehab

A daddy longlegs with no venom and no web just pinned down a live frog bigger than itself. Scientists say this might be happening all over South American tropical forests.

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The Roswell mythology spent the 2000s losing its key witnesses and its fabricated evidence. Then the government quietly started studying UFOs again. Then it started admitting things. We still don't kn...

Between 1978 and 2000, Roswell transformed from a forgotten local incident into the defining UFO event in American history. Some of that transformation was accidental. Some of it was manufactured by p...

Scientists confirmed a tenth reef-walking shark off Papua New Guinea, but surveys at a nearby island where it was once common turned up nothing.

One microbe. One cell. Same DNA as every relative it's about to eat.

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It survived the Normans, the Black Death, and two world wars. What killed England's most famous tree may be harder to stomach than any of that.

A pale, soft-bodied deep-sea animal that kind of looks like a sea slug, but isn't was spotted at 9100m. The deep ocean has secrets.

Dolphins have been hunting cooperatively with humans for centuries. Now researchers have documented another cross-species partnership; the other partner is a killer whale.