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In 1994, two hikers in the Badlands stumbled on a massive ancient watering hole filled with fossils

What began as a bizarre 1959 metal experiment could end up changing how the world reuses heat and generates electricity

California chemical leak: What is methyl methacrylate, the chemical forcing 40,000 residents to evacuate?

Watch: SpaceX Starship bursts into flames during fiery Indian Ocean splashdown after test flight

Quote of the day by English physicist Brian Cox: “We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.”

There was once an ocean where Asia’s mountains now rise and scientists say it helped build them

Scientists finally discover why gold never loses its shine after thousands of years

Historic 19th-century coins unearthed beneath HMS Victory

Denmark is building Thor, a 70-turbine offshore wind farm to power one million homes

‘The tick-tick quake’: Scientists crack the code of the world’s most frequent earthquakes in the Pacific

How the Great Pyramid of Giza has survived earthquakes for thousands of years

Archaeologists discovered an 8,000-year-old coastal superhighway marked by human and animal footprints

The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, and scientists can measure every inch

Why Japan’s terrifying “robot wolves” are in demand amidst bear attacks

A 16-year-old South African student used orange peels to help dry soil hold water

At 15, Kelvin Doe built a community radio station from scrap in Sierra Leone

Meet the plastic fighters: Three Indian teens win the Earth Prize for creating a tamarind solution that removes microplastics from water

How a failed attempt to protect a tablecloth led to Jacques E. Brandenberger’s invention of “cellophane”

Archaeologists found an intact Anglo-Saxon burial chamber in Essex, challenging old ‘dark ages’ views

Humanity’s home in space is shutting down: What comes next will be nothing like it

Scientists say Antarctic mud revealed a rainforest near the South Pole

A 13-year-old built a LEGO Braille printer to make reading more affordable

In 2017, Colorado construction workers accidentally dug up a very rare dinosaur fossil

How streetlights may be affecting birds, bats and insects at night in ways scientists did not expect

In 2000, an amateur explorer found a hidden cave in France filled with ancient art and burials

In 2002, cavers found a hidden skeleton that revealed an ancient Australian predator

Quote of the day by psychiatrist Viktor Frankl: “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of...”

43-foot ‘marine T rex’ bigger than great white sharks and more brutal than any mosasaur discovered in Texas

SpaceX could give Elon Musk the biggest reward payout in history if he colonises Mars with 1 million people

16-year-old girl turns orange peels into a water-saving farming solution in South Africa, transforming drought-hit agriculture

Astronomers detected a massive magnetic ‘twist’ inside the Milky Way that could reshape understanding of our galaxy

Scientists found living glass reefs once thought extinct off Canada’s Pacific coast

In 2022, three boys hiking in North Dakota found a rare fossil that turned out to be a teenage T. rex

China’s Moon base plans are pushing ahead faster than NASA’s lunar ambitions

Quote of the day by physicist Wolfgang Pauli: “I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.”

Quote of the day by American astronomer Carl Sagan: “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

Scientists found fossil pollen that revealed a hidden Nile channel used to build the Great Pyramid

Scientists say this oral spray may finally cure your dog’s nasty breath

How do erasers actually work? It’s more complicated than you think

Oxford AI expert Michael Wooldridge says robot takeover fears miss Big Tech’s real danger

A farmer digging his field uncovered a huge church bell buried for 82 years: Why villagers hid it during World War II

Why is Kolkata known as the “Science City” of India: The story behind its scientific legacy

Scientists reveal over 1,100 newly recorded species from Coral Sea waters

Scientists are digging thousands of holes in England’s Pennine hills to fight climate change

NASA astronauts study cancer and cartilage treatments aboard the ISS as spacewalks near

Older than we ever thought? The tiny fossil clue that could push animal origins back

In 2014, a young boy found a rare fossil behind a Texas shopping mall that revealed a new dinosaur species

In 2021, a 4-year-old girl walking on a beach spotted a mark in a rock that turned out to be a dinosaur footprint

The tiny piece of amber that proves Antarctica was once a green rainforest

Scientists uncover 40,000-year-old frozen plants beneath ice on Baffin Island

Hidden beneath Antarctic ice, scientists uncover a living river-like ecosystem

A Canadian teenager built a flashlight powered by body heat that can shine without batteries

A Maryland teenager turned a science-fair question into a paper sensor for pancreatic cancer research

Scientists found frozen ground beneath Canada’s Labrador seafloor, and it could reshape permafrost maps

NASA’s Moon Base coming: New plan for a permanent human base on the Moon set to be revealed on May 26

NASA set to reveal moon base plan with 81 launch missions

Scientists turn sheep wool into a bone-healing material in a major medical breakthrough

Nasa's Psyche spacecraft swings by Mars en route to metal-rich asteroid; see pics

Scientists grow a bacteria-made “living” supermaterial that could replace plastic

Meet Manindra Agrawal: IIT Kanpur director elected Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society, joining the ranks of Einstein and Newton

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