News archive
April 2024
Filter
262 articles
- April 30
-
- Villa near Mount Vesuvius may be where Augustus, Rome's 1st emperor, died
- When did humans start getting the common cold?
- Dusty 'Cat's Paw Nebula' contains a type of molecule never seen in space — and it's one of the largest ever found
- Woman's sudden blindness in 1 eye revealed hidden lung cancer
- James Webb telescope reveals fiery 'mane' of the Horsehead Nebula in spectacular new images
- China reveals most detailed geological map of the moon ever created
- 2 plants randomly mated up to 1 million years ago to give rise to one of the world's most popular drinks
- 6G speeds hit 100 Gbps in new test — 500 times faster than average 5G cellphones
- April 29
-
- Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study finds
- Deepest blue hole in the world discovered, with hidden caves and tunnels believed to be inside
- Researchers just found more than 1,000 new solar system objects hiding in plain sight
- Why do people hear their names being called in the woods?
- Quantum computing breakthrough could happen with just hundreds, not millions, of qubits using new error-correction system
- Earth from space: Lava bleeds down iguana-infested volcano as it spits out toxic gas
- April 28
- April 27
- April 26
-
- Traces of hallucinogenic plants and chile peppers found at Maya ball court suggest rituals took place there
- PTSD tied to 95 'risk hotspots' in the genome
- New UTI vaccine wards off infection for years, early studies suggest
- Blood test powered by AI could catch osteoarthritis 8 years earlier than X-ray, early data show
- We've never seen the Fitbit Versa at this rock bottom price before, surely it won't be around long
- 1,430 ancient Roman graves scattered with funerary festival leftovers unearthed in southern France
- Lavish 2,200-year-old tomb unearthed in China may be that of ancient king
- Lasers reveal prehistoric Irish monuments that may have been 'pathways for the dead'
- Tweak to Schrödinger's cat equation could unite Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, study hints
- April 25
-
- World's thinnest gold leaf, dubbed 'goldene,' is just 1 atom thick
- Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
- Save 32% on this feature-packed Garmin Instinct running watch
- 1st self-driving car that 'lets you take your eyes off the road' goes on sale in the US — and it's not a Tesla
- Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos
- China green-lights mass production of autonomous flying taxis — with commercial flights set for 2025
- 'We have combined two marvels of modern medicine': Woman gets pig kidney and heart pump in groundbreaking procedures
- Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours
- April 24
-
- Chemo side effect caused man's eyelash growth to go haywire
- Eerie, orange skies loom over Athens as dust storm engulfs southern Greece
- DNA analysis spanning 9 generations of people reveals marriage practices of mysterious warrior culture
- Hidden 'biosphere' of extreme microbes discovered 13 feet below Atacama Desert is deepest found there to date
- Enormous explosion in 'Cigar Galaxy' reveals rare type of star never seen beyond the Milky Way
- Giant prehistoric salmon had tusk-like teeth, just like a warthog's
- Yellowstone Lake's weird resistance to climate change could be about to crack
- 5 catastrophic megathrust earthquakes led to the demise of the pre-Aztec city of Teotihuacan, new study suggests
- Earth's magnetic field formed before the planet's core, study suggests
- Scientists just grew super realistic, miniature colons in the lab and gave them cancer
- Claude 3 Opus has stunned AI researchers with its intellect and 'self-awareness' — does this mean it can think for itself?
- April 23
-
- Ancient, 30-foot relative of great white shark unearthed in Mexico quarry
- Glow-in-the-dark creatures appeared in Earth's oceans 540 million years ago
- Fake Botox injections have sickened 22, hospitalized 11, CDC warns
- Weapons chest found on wreck of 15th-century 'floating castle' sheds light on 'military revolution at sea'
- Explosive black hole flare from the center of our galaxy reconstructed from 'a single flickering pixel' using AI and Einstein's equations
- 4 solar flares simultaneously erupt from the sun in rare 'super' explosion — and Earth could be hit by the fallout
- Dying SpaceX rocket tears blood-red 'hole' in the sky over Texas — again
- After months of sending gibberish to NASA, Voyager 1 is finally making sense again
- An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from
- Massive heat wave and a supercell thunderstorm caused deadly, baseball-size hailstones to rain down on Spain
- Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagine
- George Washington's stash of centuries-old cherries found hidden under Mount Vernon floor
- April 22
-
- Haunting photo of Earth and moon snapped by China's experimental lunar satellites
- Scientists discover once-in-a-billion-year event — 2 lifeforms merging to create a new cell part
- 'We were in disbelief': Antarctica is behaving in a way we've never seen before. Can it recover?
- Hundreds of emperor penguin chicks spotted plunging off a 50-foot cliff in 1st-of-its-kind footage
- 'Unprecedented,' 'Gobsmacked', 'Unbelievable': Changes in Antarctica's sea ice could have dramatic impacts, says climate scientist Edward Doddridge
- Detecting cancer in minutes possible with just a drop of dried blood and new test, study hints
- Save more than 50% on this Wi-Fi-enabled air purifier at Walmart
- 'I nearly fell out of my chair': 1,800-year-old mini portrait of Alexander the Great found in a field in Denmark
- James Webb telescope's 'shocking' discovery may hint at hidden exomoon around 'failed star'
- Google builds an AI model that can predict future weather catastrophes
- Can faking a smile make you feel happier?
- Earth from space: Trio of multicolor lakes look otherworldly in Africa's Great Rift Valley
- April 21
-
- Scientists may have pinpointed the true origin of the Hope Diamond and other pristine gemstones
- NASA reveals 'glass-smooth lake of cooling lava' on surface of Jupiter's moon Io
- Space photo of the week: Bizarre 'Helix Galaxy' is unlike any other in the universe. Can you see why?
- Why do cats' claws retract but dogs' claws don't?
- April 20
-
- 'Uncharted territory': El Niño to flip to La Niña in what could be the hottest year on record
- Southern grasshopper mouse: The tiny super-predator that howls at the moon before it kills
- Rare 'porcelain gallbladder' found in 100-year-old unmarked grave at Mississippi mental asylum cemetery
- What's the largest waterfall in the world?
- April 19
-
- Packs of dog-shaped robots could one day roam the moon — if they can find their footing on Earth first
- See the explosive 'devil comet' get its tail ripped off by a solar storm days before its close approach to the sun
- Global 'time signals' subtly shifted as the total solar eclipse reshaped Earth's upper atmosphere, new data shows
- 'There's a great hidden museum in the Mediterranean': Underwater archaeologist David Gibbins takes us on a journey to 12 shipwrecks around the world
- Half of China's cities are sinking, putting most of the country's urban population at risk
- Enormous dinosaur dubbed Shiva 'The Destroyer' is one of the biggest ever discovered
- Watch tigress and her cubs feasting on crocodile they killed in rare footage
- East Africa's Lake Nakuru almost doubled in size in 13 years — and that's bad news for flamingos
- April's full 'Pink Moon' blooms amid a meteor shower tomorrow. Here's how to get the best view.
- Aliens may be hitching rides on meteors to colonize the cosmos, study suggests. Here's how we could spot them.
- Future quantum computers could use bizarre 'error-free' qubit design built on forgotten research from the 1990s
- 1,700-year-old Roman ruins discovered atop much older Neolithic sacred spring
- Scientists are one step closer to knowing the mass of ghostly neutrinos — possibly paving the way to new physics
- April 18
-
- 'Unprecedented' discovery of mysterious circular monument near 2 necropolises found in France
- Purple bacteria could be key to finding extraterrestrial life on exoplanets
- 'Vampire' bacteria thirst for human blood — and cause deadly infections as they feed
- Weird magnetic 'skyrmion' quasiparticle could be used as a bit in advanced computing memory
- Scientists uncover the cells that save you when water goes down the wrong pipe
- Intel unveils largest-ever AI 'neuromorphic computer' that mimics the human brain
- Watch Boston Dynamics' newest Atlas robot wake up in the creepiest way possible
- 'Unusual' beaver die-off in Utah caused by 'rabbit fever,' which can also infect humans
- Researchers solve mystery of inexplicably dense galaxy at the heart of perfect 'Einstein ring' snapped by James Webb telescope
- Lyrid meteor shower 2024: How to watch stunning shooting stars and 'fireballs' during the event's peak this week
- 50-foot 'king of the serpents' may have been the biggest snake to ever live
- Why do people feel like they're being watched, even when no one is there?
- Ancient artists high on hallucinogens may have carved dancer rock art in Peru
- April 17
-
- Maya ruler burned bodies of old dynasty during regime change, charred human remains reveal
- 'Zombie cells' in the placenta may cause heart failure in pregnancy
- Nightmare fish may explain how our 'fight or flight' response evolved
- The universe may be dominated by particles that break causality and move faster than light, new paper suggests
- Venus is leaking carbon and oxygen, and scientists aren't totally sure why
- Modern Japanese people arose from 3 ancestral groups, 1 of them unknown, DNA study suggests
- Humans were living in a lava tube 7,000 years ago on the Arabian Peninsula
- Giant, 82-foot lizard fish discovered on UK beach could be largest marine reptile ever found
- 2,500-year-old skeletons with legs chopped off may be elites who received 'cruel' punishment in ancient China
- Anglerfish entered the midnight zone 55 million years ago and thrived by becoming sexual parasites
- NASA's downed Ingenuity helicopter has a 'last gift' for humanity — but we'll have to go to Mars to get it
- World's oldest wild bird is 'actively courting' after losing long-term mate
- Ultrafast laser-powered 'magnetic RAM' is on the horizon after new discovery
- Why do we lose so much hair?
- Watch hammerhead sharks swim in 'cyclones' around ancient volcano in rare footage
- April 16
-
- AI pinpoints where psychosis originates in the brain
- Object that slammed into Florida home was indeed space junk from ISS, NASA confirms
- NASA Mars samples, which could contain evidence of life, will not return to Earth as initially planned
- Watch female octopus drag male around during sex in rare footage captured off Indonesian island
- Explosive 'devil comet' 12P will soon be at its brightest and best. Here's how to see it before it disappears.
- 1st-of-its-kind Parkinson's treatment may slow aggressive disease, trial hints
- Infamous boat-sinking orcas spotted hundreds of miles from where they should be, baffling scientists
- 7 strange things observed during the April 8 solar eclipse: From shifting time signals to puzzling plasma plumes
- AI-powered 'digital twin' of Earth could make weather predictions at super speeds
- Pluto's huge white 'heart' has a surprisingly violent origin, new study suggests
- Tired of your laptop battery degrading? New 'pulse current' charging process could double its lifespan.
- Most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way discovered 'extremely close' to Earth
- April 15
-
- 2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope
- Tube-tying surgeries and vasectomies skyrocketed post-Roe
- World's fastest camera captures footage at 156 trillion frames per second
- What happened when the moon 'turned itself inside out' billions of years ago?
- April 14
-
- Cancer patients can now be 'matched' to best treatment with DNA and lab-dish experiments
- Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object
- Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last ice age, 4,000 stone artifacts reveal
- 'Most of Gorongosa's large animals had died': How an African paradise for nature recovered from the ravages of war
- 3 pervasive myths about supplements, as explained by an expert
- Space photo of the week: NASA spots enormous pink 'flames' during total solar eclipse. What are they?
- Can you hear yourself snore?
- April 13
-
- Are we in a 6th mass extinction?
- There's 5 times as many bull sharks off Alabama now — but don't worry about shark bites
- Is the Javan tiger back from extinction? New study ignites controversy.
- 'Jailbreaking' AI services like ChatGPT and Claude 3 Opus is much easier than you think
- Annular solar eclipse 2024: Everything you need to know about the next solar eclipse
- Why did Europe's hunter-gatherers disappear?
- April 12
-
- Exercise may reverse sign of aging by 'flushing' fat from muscle
- There's a baby star 'sneezing' in the constellation Taurus — and it could solve a longstanding cosmic mystery
- Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals
- 'Exceptional' prosthesis of gold, silver and wool helped 18th-century man live with cleft palate
- Mass die-off half a billion years ago caused by shifting tectonic plates, ancient rocks reveal
- Prehistoric henge accidentally discovered in England in search for Anglo-Saxon hermit
- China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence — where AI is smarter than humans
- Largest 3D map of our universe could 'turn cosmology upside down'
- James Webb telescope finds origins of the biggest explosion since the Big Bang — revealing a new cosmological mystery
- April 11
-
- Strange light spotted over distant 'hell planet' may be 1st rainbow 'glory' found beyond our solar system
- Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies by Earth at 1/30th the distance of the moon
- Immensely powerful 'magnetar' is emitting wobbly radio signals in our galaxy — and scientists can't explain them
- Parasite that lived in woman's eye for 2 years likely came from crocodile meat
- Underwater mountain range off Easter Island hosts creatures unknown to science, expedition reveals
- Watch derpy robots show off their soccer skills thanks to new AI training method
- Hair-straightening products contain chemicals that boost risks of cancer, kidney injuries and breathing issues
- Uranus and Neptune aren't made of what we thought, new study hints
- April 10
-
- Why I watched the solar eclipse with my kids, a goose and 2,000 trees
- NASA spacecraft snaps mysterious 'surfboard' orbiting the moon. What is it?
- Neolithic women in Europe were tied up and buried alive in ritual sacrifices, study suggests
- No, you didn't see a solar flare during the total eclipse — but you may have seen something just as special
- Avi Wigderson wins $1 million Turing Award for using randomness to change computer science
- Smalltooth sawfish in Florida are spinning and beaching themselves in strange, mystery die-off
- Total solar eclipse reveals tiny new comet moments before it was destroyed by the sun
- Viking Age women with cone-shaped skulls likely learned head-binding practice from far-flung region
- Waterproof e-gloves could one day help scuba divers communicate with the surface
- Superfast drone fitted with new 'rotating detonation rocket engine' approaches the speed of sound
- April 9
-
- Pet fox with 'deep relationship with the hunter-gatherer society' buried 1,500 years ago in Argentina
- 'You could feel the energy and wonder': Despite clouds, totality wows crowds during solar eclipse in Syracuse
- Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who predicted the Higgs boson, dies at 94
- What should you do with your used solar eclipse glasses?
- Eyes hurt after the eclipse? Signs of retinal damage, explained
- 77,000 baby salmon survive truck crash in Oregon by leaping into nearby creek
- Extremely rare marsupial mole that 'expertly navigates' sand dunes spotted in Western Australia
- 1st 'atlas' of human ovaries could lead to fertility breakthrough, scientists say
- Eclipse from space: See the moon's shadow race across North America at 1,500 mph in epic satellite footage
- Pregnancy may speed up 'biological aging,' study suggests
- Part of the San Andreas fault may be gearing up for an earthquake
- Elusive prickly sharks spotted gathering at underwater mountain off Panama — but why remains a mystery
- April 8
-
- When is the next total solar eclipse after 2024 in North America?
- Here are the best photos of the April 8 total solar eclipse over North America
- New cause of asthma lung damage revealed
- Myth busted: Total solar eclipses don't release special, blinding radiation, NASA says
- Watch live! The total solar eclipse has begun over North America.
- Where to get solar eclipse glasses last minute
- 8,200-year-old campsite of 'Paleo-Archaic' peoples discovered on US Air Force base in New Mexico
- Why quantum computing at 1 degree above absolute zero is such a big deal
- Thousands of hidden meteorites could be lost forever as they sink in Antarctic ice, taking their cosmic secrets with them
- 1,500-year-old burial of lynx with 4 dogs stacked on it puzzles archaeologists
- April 7
-
- Low tides reveal Bronze Age fortress that likely defended against Irish mainland
- Lab-grown 'minibrains' help reveal why traumatic brain injury raises dementia risk
- Hundreds of mysterious 'rogue' planets discovered by James Webb telescope may finally have an explanation
- Antarctica is covered in volcanoes, could they erupt?
- April 6
- April 5
-
- 2024 solar eclipse map: Where to see the eclipse on April 8
- Cholesterol-gobbling gut bacteria could protect against heart disease
- NASA jets will chase the eclipse at 460 mph on Monday. Here's why.
- The sun is surprisingly quiet right now. What does this mean for the April 8 total solar eclipse?
- Rare magnitude 4.8 and 3.8 earthquakes rock Northeast, including Greater New York area
- Watch venomous snakes wrestling for wormlike creature in epic tug-of-war battle
- New York college becomes 1st university with on-campus IBM quantum computer that is 'scientifically useful'
- NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system
- Giant coyote killed in southern Michigan turns out to be a gray wolf — despite the species vanishing from region 100 years ago
- 'Gambling with your life': Experts weigh in on dangers of the Wim Hof method
- How and where to watch the April 8 solar eclipse online for free
- Boulders flung from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission could crash into Mars, study predicts
- April 4
-
- April 8 total solar eclipse: Everything you need to know
- The moon is getting its own time zone, White House memo to NASA reveals
- Man in critical condition after catching deadly 'B virus' from wild monkeys in Hong Kong
- Some stars may be 'infected' with black holes that destroy them from within, new study hints
- Underwater robot in Siberia's Lake Baikal reveals hidden mud volcanoes — and an active fault
- Bite from toilet rat hospitalizes man in Canada
- Error-corrected qubits 800 times more reliable after breakthrough, paving the way for 'next level' of quantum computing
- Co-sleeping with pet dogs — but not cats — linked to poorer sleep in study
- H5N1: What to know about the bird flu cases in cows, goats and people
- Maya nobility performed bloodletting sacrifices to strengthen a 'dying' sun god during solar eclipses
- Solar safe telescope deal: $30 saving ahead of the total solar eclipse
- April 3
-
- Early humans lived on 'Persian plateau' for 20,000 years after leaving Africa, study suggests
- 1,700-year-old Roman fort discovered in Germany was built to keep out barbarians
- A war of the rats was raging in North America decades before the Declaration of Independence
- New mRNA therapy shows promise in treating 'ultrarare' inherited disease
- Chinese space junk falls to Earth over Southern California, creating spectacular fireball
- Dying SpaceX rocket creates eerily-perfect 'dashed' line in new photos. What's going on?
- Taiwan earthquake: 9 dead and dozens trapped after strongest quake in 25 years
- Act fast: Save up to 50% on solar glasses for the total eclipse
- Person in Texas catches H5N1 bird flu in 1st probable case of cow-to-human transmission
- Stars, planets and more will be visible during the total solar eclipse on April 8. Here's what to look for, and where.
- Last chance: Save 20% on these eclipse-ready Celestron solar binoculars
- Group of 60 ultra-faint stars orbiting the Milky Way could be new type of galaxy never seen before
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes 1st-of-its-kind observation within a coronal mass ejection
- April 2
-
- Mysterious object that crashed through Florida home was likely space junk from the International Space Station
- See a SpaceX rocket photobomb the moon in incredible award-winning shot
- 'It's had 1.1 billion years to accumulate': Helium reservoir in Minnesota has 'mind-bogglingly large' concentrations
- Explosive green 'Mother of Dragons' comet now visible in the Northern Hemisphere
- Is playing in the dirt good for kids' immune systems?
- Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds
- Do animals really have instincts?
- April 1
-
- Mpox cases are far outpacing last year's numbers, CDC reports
- Orcas aren't all the same species, study of North Pacific killer whales reveals
- See photos of NASA's suitcase-sized rovers that will soon map the moon's surface
- 'You probably didn't inherit any DNA from Charlemagne': What it means when your DNA 'matches' a historic person's
- Why NASA is launching 3 rockets into the solar eclipse next week
- Hidden chunk of Earth's crust that seeded birth of 'Scandinavia' discovered through ancient river crystals
- April 8 solar eclipse: What time does totality start in every state?
- Chemicals that make babies smell sweet and teens smell 'goat-like' revealed
- Colors will look different during the April 8 solar eclipse. Here's why.
- Many kids are unsure if Alexa and Siri have feelings or think like people, study finds
- Ancient quarries in Israel reveal where Homo erectus hunted and butchered elephants
