Discovery

Some of the Earth’s most “extreme features” have been discovered deep, deep underground, and scientists can’t work out what they are. The mysterious zones have the power to slow down seismic waves by up to 50 per cent, yet experts don’t know what they’re made of or what role they play. These strange black holes (figuratively speaking) are located w...

The Moon is a key piece of the space exploration puzzle. One of our next objectives is to visit Earth’s satellite and establish a permanent … The post China produced large quantities of water using the Moon’s soil appeared first on BGR.

An "incredibly rare" fish was found at La Jolla Cove recently, making it the 20th time an oarfish has been spotted in California in the last century.

When organizing the massive amount of data needed for bioinformatics, AI might be just what the doctor ordered.

Scientists have traced six meteorites to their original craters on Mars, providing unprecedented new insights into their origins.

Bdelloid rotifers, a type of small freshwater animal, harness stolen bacterial genes to create antibiotics, offering insights into developing safer antimicrobial drugs and addressing growing antibiotic resistance. A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of Stirling, an

The original principle of relativity, proposed by Galileo way back in the early 1600s, remains true in its unchanged form even today.

An analysis of the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed reveals no difference in the propagation speed of different frequencies of light—placing some of the tightest constraints on certain violations of general relativity.

Einstein's theoretical warp drive concept brings faster-than-light travel closer, defying known physics limits.

One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised to eventually change—changing everything.

A study adds strong evidence to the hypothesis that the deadly rock came from a family of objects that originally formed well beyond the orbit of the planet Jupiter.

"Hurtling towards Earth."

AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle, by Donald Johanson, a paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.

Scientists used computer modeling and the genomes of several hundred living people to examine our prehistoric origins

Scientists at Northwestern University say they've invented a goo — yes, a goo — that might open the door to regenerating human knee cartilage.

High-energy neutrino interactions have been observed within a particle collider for the first time, according to new findings.

The universe is expanding at a rapid rate and scientists don’t really know why – but one expert has a compelling theory, and it concerns a mysterious 'twin’. One possible explanation as to why the fabric of the universe is growing was posited by Naman Kumar, who is a PhD student at the Indian Instit...

Evidence of genetic behavior in bacteria that researchers liken to “alien biology” suggests similar strange genes could exist in humans.

Liquid amounting to a 1-2km-deep ocean may be frozen up to 20km below surface, calculations suggest

Discover how LIGO machine's groundbreaking technology has confirmed Einstein's theories and revolutionized astronomy.

Scientists examining data from NASA's InSight Lander have revealed the likely presence of an underground reservoir containing enough liquid to cover the planet with a mile of water.

Other scientists are concerned and ethical questions linger over where the research on brain genes may lead. Scientists adding a human intelligence gene into monkeys - it's the kind of thing you'd see in a movie like Rise of the Planet of the Apes. But Chinese researchers have done just that, improving the short-term memories of […] The post What Happens When Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene Into a Monkey? appeared first on Organically...

Research found signs of ancient viruses in Neanderthal DNA that they may have gotten from ancient humans and could have contributed to their extinction.

A fringe theory called "panspermia" suggests that lifeforms can spread to new planets by hitching rides on meteors. New research lays out a roadmap for finding where these hypothetical, planet-hopping aliens may reside.

A massive 120-foot asteroid is barreling toward Earth at mind-boggling speeds of around 31,228 mph — and it's slated to pass within 4.18 million miles of the planet

The Perseverance rover was built for this moment—and it didn’t disappoint.

Pure Energy Turned Into Matter at Near Light Speed

Flu viruses that can use a second cellular entry point may move more effectively between animals and humans, scientists say.