Just when experts thought they knew every moai on Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, a dried-up lakebed kept them on ...

It was a bold thought experiment: that only one electron makes up the entire universe. The most famous conversation about it took place between Richard Feynman, PhD, and John Wheeler, PhD, both ...

When the U.S. Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford deployed for the first time in October 2022, analysts expressed concern that the $13.3 billion behemoth was dead on ...

The 300 million-year-old Tyrannoroter heberti had an extra set of conical-shaped teeth, indicating it likely ate plants. It’s one of the earliest species to do so.

Dated to the ninth century C.E., a time when the Vikings ruled the area, the grave held the remains of at least 10 different ...

NASA scientists have found the remains of a U.S. military base buried 100 feet below the surface of the ice in Greenland.

The specimens that Charles Darwin brought back from his journey on the HMS Beagle are still preserved in liquid in the archives of London’s Natural History Museum. However, nobody was quite sure what ...

The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

NYU physicists accidentally found a way to make a time crystal using nothing but sound waves and tiny polystyrene beads. Time ...

There’s a mysterious energy quietly influencing your brain. Could it explain where your consciousness originates?

Yes, we know. That’s a lot to chew on. But it’s also possible—and the unsettling premise behind Pop Mech ’s new story, ...

The results were grossly inaccurate, stemming from AI pulling its information from outdated stereotypes in lieu of paywalled ...