Icefin, an underwater robot, took a wild journey underneath a melting glacier in Antarctica. An underwater robot named Icefin that has gone where no submersible has gone before — to the underbelly of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” — has uncovered unusually…
Inscriptions on religious artifacts could reveal the identities of Jewish people who donated the objects to the synagogue. A historic synagogue near Kraków, Poland, was mostly destroyed by Nazis during World War II, but a secret hoard of precious ritual…
With every passing moment, another breaking report about the newfound coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, hits your news feed. So far, more than 7,700 cases of the virus have been confirmed, including more than 100 cases beyond China. But one vital question is…
A newborn baby. U.S. life expectancy at birth has increased for the first time in four years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And a large part of this increase is attributable…
As a new coronavirus spreads in China and around the world, scientists are scrambling to find out exactly where it came from. Now, a new study provides more clues to the virus’ origins, and points to bats as the most…
Original position of the skeletal remains inside the submerged cave of Muknal. These remains date back to about 10,000 years ago and belonged to an adult male. The earliest humans in North America were far more diverse than previously realized,…
The high-res photos reveal the Sun’s turbulent atmosphere in intricate detail with features as small as 18 miles visible for the first time The surface of the sun (Image: NSO/AURA/NSF / SWNS) The clearest and most detailed images of the…
The nurse at the Ulm University Medical Centre in southern Germany was arrested after a syringe containing breast milk with morphine was found in a locker during a police raid Five babies were poisoned with morphine, police in Germany said…
Photographer Lori Jacobs snapped the stunning photo, which has now been featured as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day The pool of vivid blue water, about 10 meters across, is known as Silex Spring and is located in Yellowstone National…
THE Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle, is a region where a number of aircraft and ships have mysteriously disappeared. But now, the whereabouts of one ship may have solved the mystery of the region. A ship, that…