A long-misidentified fossil, once thought to be a caterpillar, has revealed itself as a groundbreaking discovery in early animal evolution.

Or is it actually a great idea.

In a surprising twist, two of Arizona’s most iconic landmarks—Meteor Crater and the Grand Canyon—may be linked by a cosmic event that occurred around 56,000

In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons—fundamental particles of light—hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature.

The discovery of the Higgs boson hasn’t led to a explosion of new physics. Now, some scientists think that hidden physics may be hiding beyond LHC’s view.

Astronomers have used a novel technique to find evidence of a secret "buddy" star orbiting Betelgeuse, one of the brightest objects in the night sky — but this sun-size companion may not survive for long.

The universe can be beautiful, as Chandra and other observatories reveal.

Watch as part of the Earth slides away from the other in a dramatic shake-up.

No laws of physics were harmed in this process.

Researchers have identified a "mating arena" at Dinosaur Ridge where male theropods gathered during the Cretaceous period to display in front of females.

When you've just been drowned by an alien robot, you don't tend to be all that hungry.

With a giant beak, the terror bird would have proved a formidable foe for most. Paleontologists think it may have been killed by a crocodile-like creature.

A technology called Dynamic Targeting could enable spacecraft to decide, autonomously and within seconds, where to best make science observations from orbit.

The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than the present age of the universe.

850,000-year-old child's vertebra with cut marks reveals early human cannibalism at Gran Dolina, shedding light on Homo antecessor behavior.

On the slopes of Martian mountains and craters clings what appears to be flowing honey, coated in dust and frozen in time. In reality, these features are incredibly slow-moving glaciers, and their contents were once thought to be mostly rock enveloped in some…

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the dust of nearby galaxies and into the aftermath of a black hole's stellar feast.

The astounding collection of soft-bodied Cambrian fossils was found buried in the walls of the vast US canyon.

Two days this summer have been unusually short, with the shortest expected on Aug. 5, leading global timekeepers to consider adding a negative leap second.

Once dismissed as “junk,” pieces of ancient viral DNA in our genome are now known to help control which genes are turned on or off.

In this episode of The Joy of Why, Thomas Hertog discusses his collaboration with Stephen Hawking on a provocative theory arguing that the laws of physics evolved with the universe, and how this could have shaped a cosmos fit for life.

Researchers used machine learning to reanalyze Yellowstone's historical earthquake data, revealing that humans may have missed a few things.

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest relatives.

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