Buried beneath the hills of southern Brazil and northern Argentina, scientists have discovered massive tunnels that were likely dug by giant Ice Age creatures. These tunnels, which stretch up to 600 yards long and are wide enough for an…
A Texas steel erector unwittingly submitted $870,000 in two payments intended for a fabricator to a bank account that was instead controlled by cyber thieves, who faked not only emails but also impersonated the fabricator’s chief financial…
As the afternoon fades at the Three Sisters Caves in Kenya’s Kwale county, David Wechuli’s team begins setting up nearly invisible nets along the hillsides in the coastal forest. “When dusk arrives, bats begin pouring out of the caves,”…
Environmental activist Berta Cáceres won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for successfully halting the Agua Zarca project, a massive hydropower development along the Gualcarque River in her native Honduras. On March 3, 2016, 10 years ago…
These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show the most common types of crack networks observed in Bennu samples; these networks solved a mystery that baffled NASA for…
The universe remains silent. We’ve never detected messages from non-human life, despite decades of searching. One potential explanation is provided by Dark Forest theory. It posits that the universe is silent because it’s like a dark and…
Infineon Technologies has announced the expansion of its collaboration with Nvidia to advance system architectures for physical AI, with a focus on humanoid robots. Building on the collaboration announced in August 2025, the companies intend to…
KAPESE, Kenya — At first glance, there is little to suggest that Kapese, a dusty settlement of traditional manyattas and free-roaming livestock scattered across the parched landscape of northern Kenya’s Turkana region, is the epicenter of the…
Dozens of executives from European tech scaleups have backed a new venture firm built on the thesis that people who have scaled billion-dollar companies know which founders can do it again.
For years, the criticism…
Rett syndrome is a rare neurodevelopment disorder that leads to developmental regression, usually after a period of normal growth, and causes impairments in communication, motor skills, and speech. It is…
