An executive order critiques the idea that race is a human invention. But that's exactly what modern science supports.

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

You don't need plate tectonics to get continental crust that looks modern, a new study finds.

A Celtic warrior was injured in battle 2,500 years ago. Archaeologists were able to identify the weapon based on 3D scans of ...

GPT-4.5 has successfully convinced people it’s human 73% of the time in an authentic configuration of the original Turing ...

A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

Though research on sexual experience in nonhuman animals is limited to primates and rodents, there's reason to think that ...

Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of star system.

See if your Viking Age trivia knowledge is in ship-shape condition with our quiz.

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...