China Has Unlocked the Secret to Winning the Aircraft Carrier Race—And That’s a Direct Threat to America
America’s newest aircraft carrier is the USS Gerald R. Ford, the only non- Nimitz class ship in the fleet and the first of ...
Archaeologists Found Evidence of Ancient Humans Eating Brains... of Other Humans.
Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...
‘Megadroughts’ Have Made Themselves Known in the 21st Century. They’re Going to Get Worse.
The end of 2024 marks the 24th year of the southwestern United States’s “megadrought”—a type of drought that often last ...
A Scientist Grew a Groundbreaking New ‘Mutant’ Form of Magic Mushroom
Unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, this giant mushroom also has psychedelic properties. When you think of a ...
Archaeologists Discovered the Pieces of a Fifth-Century Board Game. They Tell a Big Story.
The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with bone pieces by Roman soldiers in the fifth century. Celikbas said both are ...
Volunteers Discovered 7 Centuries’ Worth of History Buried Beneath a Church Floor
During construction at a 13th century church in Gardelegen, Germany, volunteers found over 1,000 artifacts that spanned seven ...
In the Race to Develop a Hypersonic Jet, Did China Just Reclaim the Lead?
If China can pull off large-scale production of such a plane, it would revolutionize international air travel as we know it.
Archaeologists Just Found the Oldest 3D Map in the World
Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...
A Decade-Long Particle Survey Could Shake Up Our Understanding of Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...
Spies or Scapegoats: Does New Evidence Exonerate the Rosenbergs?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death for spying for the Soviet Union. Decades later, we’re still grappling with what ...
Are We on the Verge of an Arms Race in Space?
Rumors of a Russian space nuke, along with other satellite-targeting weapons, have made geopolitical tensions extend into ...
Scientists Just Took a Major Step Towards Creating Synthetic Life
This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.