A quiet family walk along the windswept coast of South Wales turned into a discovery that astonished paleontologists. What began as a simple beach outing ended with a 10-year-old uncovering traces from the age of dinosaurs — five perfectly…

A quiet family walk along the windswept coast of South Wales turned into a discovery that astonished paleontologists. What began as a simple beach outing ended with a 10-year-old uncovering traces from the age of dinosaurs — five perfectly…

Every product we touch has a footprint. A phone, a fridge, a hospital syringe. Each begins and ends in the same place: the planet’s resources.

Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth’s magnetic field and the way continents and tectonic plates have shifted across millennia – but for some periods, the geological record doesn’t make much sense.
A fresh…

Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that may have been a temple from the Uruk period, when the first cities in the world were taking off.
The buried “monumental” structure was discovered in September at…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.
If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat flows spontaneously from hotter bodies to colder ones. But now, gently and…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe. Instead of neat spiral structures, these galaxies were gas-filled and chaotic, constantly reshaped by…

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first detected in July 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope.
Elon Musk made a dramatic declaration on The Joe Rogan Experience during a discussion on the mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Speaking about the possibility of…

An international team of researchers has solved a long-standing puzzle in quantum physics by discovering an elusive quasiparticle, called a polaron, in a unique rare-earth material.
The discovery, made by scientists from Kiel University and…

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research suggests that clumps of dark matter pulled in…