The last decade ushered in some truly revolutionary advances in science, from the discovery of the Higgs boson to the use of CRISPR for Sci-Fi esque gene editing. But what are some of the biggest breakthroughs still to come? Live…
The drawing was overlooked for decades on the tablet from the library of a family of exorcists who lived in the Assyrian city of Assur. The depiction is shown here in red. An ancient drawing of a demon blamed for…
What if I told you that our universe was flooded with hundreds of kinds of nearly invisible particles and that, long ago, these particles formed a network of universe-spanning strings? It sounds both trippy and awesome, but it’s actually a…
A MYSTERIOUS blazing object was spotted in the sky on New Year’s Day morning, with many locals suggesting it was a rocket or missile despite no planned launches from NASA. Early risers on New Year’s Day were treated to a…
No one really knows what happens inside an atom. But two competing groups of scientists think they’ve figured it out. And both are racing to prove that their own vision is correct. Here’s what we know for sure: Electrons whiz…
This image shows a fossilized plant that is not from the New York fossil forest, but is meant to illustrate such plants. The oldest forest in the world was just discovered in upstate New York, just west of the Hudson…