Two residents of Snohomish County, Washington, who fell ill with COVID-19-like symptoms in December have now tested positive for antibodies against the new coronavirus. The findings suggest the virus might have arrived in the U.S. earlier than thought. One of…
In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at dreams that terrify: nightmares. What causes nightmares, and does everybody have them? What can you do to prevent nightmares? And if you’re caught in the middle of…
An image taken by James Carpenter, an American Museum of Natural History researcher and coauthor of the new paper, shows the distinctive face of a murder hornet. So-called “murder hornets” have arrived in the United States. The Asian giant hornet…
Reconstruction of the Cretaceous marine animal Marsupites testudinarius. Weird, multisided geometric shapes called buckyballs have been discovered in an unexpected place: marine animals that lived 80
This is how the ancient humans may have discovered the elephant’s carcass on a lake shore at what is now Schöningen, Germany. Archaeologists have discovered the nearly complete skeleton of an enormous, now-extinct elephant that lived about 300,000
The magnitude-6.5 earthquake happened near the Nevada-California border. A magnitude-6.5 earthquake rattled western Nevada just before sunrise today (May 15), waking up people at 4:03 a.m. local time (11:03 UTC), well before their morning alarms went off, according to news…