The Cambrian explosion, beginning roughly 540 million years ago, is famous for the sudden appearance of major animal groups. Fossil sites such as Canada’s Burgess Shale capture that dramatic surge.

A stone wall deep inside a Greek cave stands as the oldest known human made structure. Dated to 23,000 years ago, it predates Egypt's Great Pyramid by over 18,000 years. In 2025, after nearly a decade ...

The Chernobyl disaster remains etched in global memory. Yet scientists are still struggling to fully understand its long-term health impacts. In hopes of gaining clearer insight, a research team ...

To reach this unexpected conclusion, researchers from the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health analyzed data from 487,194 participants with an average age of ...

The Ordos Basin holds an estimated 30 million tons of uranium, announced in January 2025 by the China Geological Survey. A second major deposit was discovered in July 2025 in the Tarim Basin at 1,820 ...

The natural world has always fueled the myths and stories of Indigenous cultures. But what if some of those myths were inspired by animals that disappeared hundreds of millions of years before humans ...

Norway proved government policy can reshape a market at scale. It also proved that success creates new problems. When electric vehicles become the default, subsidies stop accelerating adoption and ...

In March 2024, researchers at India's Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary spotted an otter on tiger camera traps. Unsure of the species, they returned in May with more cameras. Ten days later, the images ...

To track submarines, the Royal Navy is turning to Proteus, an imposing unmanned helicopter developed by Leonardo. The aircraft, which has just completed its first test flight, is set to become a key ...

Laboratory analysis uncovered a significant discrepancy between marketing claims and chemical reality. Several pans explicitly labeled “PFOA-free” tested positive for traces of perfluorooctanoic acid ...

The team led by Laura Perini, a researcher in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Aarhus University, has published findings that transform how we view natural climate regulation mechanisms.

The Amazon Leo satellite constellation poses a growing threat to astronomical observations. According to researchers, these spacecraft are far too bright and could interfere with ground based ...