The Great Pyramid of Khufu has stood for roughly 4,600 years. It has survived weathering, looting, shifting sands, and several earthquakes. A new geophysical study suggests one reason may be hidden in ...

Rice has always been a heat-loving plant, at home in the warm, wet landscapes of Asia. It spread with the first farmers, fed ...

Smartphone LiDAR reveals hidden objects around corners but cannot produce crisp images. Credit: Aaron Young/MIT Media Lab.

Prehistoric rock art site in northeast Zimbabwe showing a variety of large animals including elephant and rhino. Image ...

Ph.D., is a bioethicist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto.

A northern cassowary shown in visible light at left and ultraviolet light at right reveals the bright green-blue biofluorescence of its casque. Credit: Todd L. Green On a warm night in Florida, Todd ...

Pearls within a pearl oyster shell. Pearl oysters are important products in Japan, as they produce beautiful pearls that are sought after for necklaces, earrings, and rings. Credit: K. MIKIMOTO & CO., ...

A humpback whale photographed in Brazil in September 2003 appeared again in September 2025 off eastern Australia, so far from its first sighting that researchers first had to make sure the whale was ...

For who knows how long, many of the enigmatic giant stone jars of northern Laos stood open and undisturbed. Exposed to the sky, they offered few clues about who made them or what they were for. One ...

Chicks were never supposed to hatch from plastic. Yet inside the Dallas laboratories of Colossal Biosciences, chicken embryos ...

Companies like Meta and IBM are exploring explore how AI can hyper-personalize ads, drawing from our chat histories, playing ...

Anthony Chappel-Ross/York Museums Trust. Late in 2021, a metal detectorist named Peter Heads swept his device across an unass ...