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More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these Paleolithic signs reveals that they were not random ...

Scientists have proposed a surprising connection between solar flares and earthquakes. When solar activity disturbs the ionosphere, it may generate electric fields that penetrate fragile fracture zones in Earth's crust. If a fault is already ...

Deep in the Congo Basin, vast peatlands quietly store enormous amounts of Earth's carbon -- but new research suggests this ancient vault may be leaking. Scientists studying Africa's largest blackwater lakes discovered that significant amounts of ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK's Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the "Sword Dragon of Dorset," the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a poorly understood window of evolution when major ...

Researchers are engineering bacteria to invade tumors and consume them from the inside. Because tumor cores lack oxygen, they're the perfect breeding ground for these microbes. The team added a genetic tweak that helps the bacteria survive longer ...

A new 30-year analysis reveals that melting land ice is now the main force behind rising global sea levels. Researchers discovered that oceans rose about 90 millimeters since 1993, with most of the increase coming from added water mass rather than .. ...

Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal's coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that dwarfs even the Grand Canyon. Known as the King's Trough Complex, this 500-kilometer stretch of trenches and deep basins formed ...

A century after Erwin Schrödinger sketched out a bold vision for how we perceive color, scientists have finally filled in the missing pieces. A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, saturation, and lightness aren't shaped by ...

Cleaner wrasse have revealed a remarkable new side of fish intelligence. Marked with fake parasites, they used mirrors to inspect and remove the spots--far faster than seen in earlier tests. Even more striking, some fish dropped shrimp in front of .. ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis -- a spectacular new predator crowned with a massive, scimitar-shaped crest that may once have blazed with color under the desert sun. Discovered in remote inland river ...