In this spirit of rigorous worldbuilding, we just published a new study where we merged the disparate disciplines of literary worldbuilding and climate modelling. We used complex computer programs – ...

Students in Greece will revive Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth’s radius and circumference, a remarkable experiment in ...

The strangest claims often survive because the underlying evidence is hard to inspect. Few examples show that better than the ...

For centuries, the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred gold-plated chest said to contain the Ten Commandments, has been one of the greatest mysteries in religious history. The object, which once ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab self-driving unit Waymo on Tuesday defended its use of remote assistance personnel in the face of questions from Congress and said they ...

BeyondTrust warned customers to patch a critical security flaw in its Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) software that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary ...

Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of years. Using ancient magnetic records and advanced simulations, scientists ...

Exploring Earth's deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have traveled 25 billion km into space, the deepest we have ever gone below our feet is just over 12 ...

A cemetery once described as "tainted" has grown into one of the largest and most historic burial grounds in Atlanta, holding more than a century of Black history. South-View Cemetery was founded in ...

A rumor spread online in late January 2026 that U.S. President Donald Trump made a post on social media announcing that the movie "Melania," a documentary about his wife, would be "mandatory viewing ...

Ancient rocks once beneath the ocean hold clues of severe conditions unimaginable on today's planet. Artwork showing the Earth during the Cryogenian period. This geologic period lasted from 850 to 635 ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said classes would be remote, not canceled, after a winter storm covered the city in nearly a foot of snow. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jin Yu Young Roughly 350,000 public school ...