Salt is deeply encrusted onto the history of Wieliczka. Around 13.5 million years ago, seawater flooded this basin at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe. Then, slowly but surely, ...

"We no longer have to wait for an asteroid or comet to come to Earth to understand their histories," Linda Losurdo said in a ...

Recent studies have shown that the larvae of some flies suffer from reduced pupation rates and are less likely to survive to adulthood once they’ve been exposed to psilocybin. Other experiments have ...

As cold-blooded reptiles, the iguanas enter a state of torpor when temperatures fall. This causes the animals to temporarily ...

On September 1, 1859, Carrington was observing the Sun when he witnessed the most powerful event ever recorded. It bears his ...

From big talk about annexing sovereign nations to myriad spitballed ideas to encourage birth rates, increasing the population ...

While generative AI driving is a new approach, Perseverance has been able to use its autonomous systems to navigate any unexpected obstacles along its path, like no other rover. It performs dozens of ...

The larvae themselves only measure half a millimeter long. Though tiny, this represents a remarkable (though quite gross) discovery. The mites belongs to a genus that had only been described in Costa ...

Phil the groundhog might have a whole day named in honor of his forecasting skills – but that doesn't mean they're any good.

“'Dry scooping,' one particularly risky method of consumption, entails putting undiluted powder into one’s mouth followed by ...

Because it takes time for light to travel large distances, the quintet's collision in the far-off reaches of space happened when the universe was just 800 million years old. Such a five-way merger ...

Anyone who has ever cared for a baby will no doubt have wondered what’s going on inside their little heads. With only “crying ...