In a First, Scientists Found Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation : ScienceAlert The constant ebb and flow of hormones that guide the menstrual cycle don’t just affect reproductive anatomy. They also reshape the brain, and a study […]

This Skeleton Is The First Person Ever Found From a Norse Saga : ScienceAlert “They took a dead man and cast him into the well, and then filled it up with stones.” So declares the 800-year-old Norse Sverris Saga, an accounting […]

New Simulations Suggest Planet Nine Might Not Be a Planet at All : ScienceAlert In the outer Solar System, far from the light and warmth of the Sun, things can get a little… hinky. There, clusters of rocks have been orbiting i […]

Stunning Astronomical Observatory Unearthed in Ancient Egypt : ScienceAlert A ruined building in Kafr El Sheikh was where ancient Egyptians once stood, gazing at the stars above. More than 2,500 years ago, the building […]

New Biomaterial Could Finally Repair Damaged Cartilage in Injured Joints : ScienceAlert The body is pretty good at repairing itself, but some parts of our anatomy struggle to bounce back after an injury. One such material is cartilage […]

520-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Larva Found With Preserved Brain And Guts : ScienceAlert Every now and again, our planet ponies up a fossil so spectacular that almost all you can do is gape in wonder. Sometimes those fossils are the […]

Gobsmacking Study Finds Life on Earth Emerged 4.2 Billion Years Ago Once upon a time, Earth was barren. Everything changed when, somehow, out of the chemistry available early in our planet’s history, something […]

Chemistry Discovery on Mars Hints at The Origins of Life on Earth A little over a decade ago, a robotic rover on Mars finally uncovered an answer to a pressing question. It’s now clear that the red planet does, […]

Strange, Glowing Shapes Identified in Jupiter's Atmosphere Saturn has its famous hexagon, and Jupiter has just now been caught throwing mad shapes too. High up in its atmosphere, astronomers have […]

Cosmic Shrapnel That Killed The Mammoth Is Buried Deep, Scientists Claim For hundreds of thousands of years, the wooly mammoth thrived on Earth, measuring its stately tread across the frozen reaches. Then, something […]

Strange Radio Signal From Deep Space Baffles Scientists We’ve received a strange signal from across the galaxy, and astronomers are struggling to understand what it means. They know what’s emitting […]

Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Found in Ancient Treasure Stash Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all. A […]

Scientists Confirm The Planet Vulcan Doesn't Actually Exist After All We can officially say goodbye to the real-life version of the fictional Vulcan homeworld. Astronomers have found that signals interpreted as […]

First Glimpse Inside Bizarre Planet Reveals What Makes It So Puffy For the first time, the JWST has given us a detailed breakdown of the interior of a world outside our Solar System. The extremely strange […]

Mysterious 'Anomaly' Buried Near Giza Pyramids Baffles Archaeologists Slowly but surely, the ground is regurgitating its secrets. The history that lies buried beneath the swirling sands of time yields, piece by […]

Bioluminescence Evolved in The Abyss 540 Million Years Ago, Study Finds In the darkest corners of the planet, where the light of the Sun never touches, eerie glows can yet be found, illuminating the shadows. This […]

Vikings Filed Grooves Into Their Teeth as an Unusual Form of ID Humans have modified their bodies in various ways throughout history, tattooing, piercing, scarring, implanting, or even deforming parts of their […]

NASA's About to Make a Big Announcement About Mars. Here's What We Know We’re about to find out what’s happening with NASA’s beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission. In just a few hours – at 1PM EDT – NASA is going to […]

Physicists Capture Elusive 4D 'Ghost' in CERN Particle Accelerator There’s a specter haunting the tunnels of a particle accelerator at CERN. In the Super Proton Synchrotron, physicists have finally measured […]

First-of-Its-Kind 'Quantum Tornado' Achieves Record-Breaking Black Hole Mimicry : ScienceAlert A superfluid vortex controlled in a lab is helping physicists learn more about the behavior of black holes. A whirlpool generated in helium […]