Curiosity rover hits a major Mars geological boundary after a steep climb, opening fresh insights into the planet’s ancient environment changes. During its latest trek across Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover climbed to the summit of a sharply...

Inspired by the structure of eggshells, researchers have developed a new shield that slows simulated space debris by 65% to better protect spacecraft. Engineers are looking toward the delicate geometry of an eggshell to solve one of the most pressing...

Scientists uncover the earliest Antarctic dinosaur fossil—a tiny tailbone hidden for 40 years in a Cambridge collection. During a 1985 British Antarctic Survey mission on James Ross Island, a fossil was collected but never received a definitive...

Study finds that placing a nuclear device deep inside an asteroid could vastly boost Earth’s defenses against catastrophic impacts. A recent peer‑reviewed article in Space: Science and Technology proposes that the most effective way to neutralise a...

A 600‑million‑year‑old one‑eyed sea creature may hold the key to human vision, revealing an unexpectedly strange evolutionary twist. New research suggests that a tiny, worm‑shaped marine animal that thrived roughly 600 million years ago may have housed...

A mysterious inscription of Sak Tahn Waax accompanies a formula linking time cycles to planetary motions, hinting at ancient cosmological knowledge. Archaeologists working at the Maya site of Xultun uncovered a plastered wall inside a structure dated...

AI boosts protein engineering, letting scientists redesign the Botox enzyme to target an ALS‑related protein. Researchers say AI vastly improves a technique used to engineer proteins. As a proof of concept, they redesigned the Botox enzyme to snip a...

A shipwreck off Andros revealed hundreds of ancient amphorae, but the most telling find lies in the mysterious cargo uncovered on the seabed. A team of Greek underwater archaeologists has uncovered a massive cargo of ancient trade jars near the island...

A bone found by a girl in Braunau am Inn sparked the discovery of nine mass graves in Ranshofen, revealing at least 120 victims near Hitler’s birthplace. Archaeologists have uncovered nine burial pits containing the remains of at least 120 young men in...

Scientists reveal a pre‑dinosaur predator’s unexpected place on the evolutionary tree, reshaping our view of ancient apex hunters. Around 300 million years ago, Dimetrodon ruled the Early Permian ecosystems as the dominant carnivore, preying on large...

New simulations reveal the Moon may have formed almost intact within mere hours of a massive collision between Earth and the protoplanet Theia. For decades, the dominant theory of lunar formation has painted a picture of a gradual, messy process: a...

Scientists have discovered a massive lunar crater, larger than the Roman Colosseum, hidden within 17 months of detailed moon surface data. While conducting a routine examination of lunar imagery on October 24, 2025, Robert Wagner, an image-processing...

In this case, reviewers noted that the dated samples lacked clear markers of human activity such as charcoal, bone fragments, tools, or other artifacts. The Gunung Padang site in Indonesia. Credit: Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto Flint Dibble of Cardiff...

into fine sediment trapped between coal seams, where unique conditions halted decomposition. While bone, scale and tooth fragments often survive, soft tissues usually decay within days; neural tissue is especially vulnerable, making the preservation of...

in bat ecology. Prior to the deployment of miniature tracking devices, scientists gathered indirect clues such as feather fragments of robins and blue tits recovered from bat guano. The latest sensor data show bats snatching passerines mid‑air, removing...

excavators cleared the sediment from the vessel’s interior, they reached its base and discovered two freeze‑dried potato fragments. Lead investigator Lidio Valdez, an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary, recounted to Live Science that the...

Nearby, the artificial pool known as the King’s Stables contained deliberately placed weapon moulds, animal bones and fragments of human remains. A timber‑lined ceremonial avenue linked the settlement to this ritual basin, suggesting that processional...

Rising Star cave system in 2013, when a team headed by paleoanthropologist Lee Berger uncovered more than 1,500 bone fragments. These remains, belonging to at least 20 individuals dated to roughly 335,000–236,000 years ago, share a time frame with early...

(CNSA) on 29 May 2025, Tianwen‑2 is tasked with conducting an in‑depth study of the asteroid and ferrying back fragments to the planet. The data gathered are expected to shed light on the object’s birth, makeup and the dynamical path that keeps it near...

describing the find as “like a unicorn.” Subsequent expeditions in 2022 recovered two more crests and additional jaw fragments, confirming that the remains represented a distinct species rather than an odd specimen of the known spinosaur. Moments upon...