The plains viscacha looks a lot like a chinchilla, but it's known for building vast tunnels underground and for producing ...

Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

Measles can erase the immune system's "memory" and cause a rare but fatal health condition. The MMR vaccine prevents these repercussions, evidence shows.

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

A graduate student accidentally created a blend of oil, water and nickel particles that formed an unexpected shape.

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

On April 1, 2025, the Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC introduced the world's most advanced microchip: the 2 nanometre (2nm) chip.