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Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during their rituals, a new chemical analysis suggests.
The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the “Moth,” just 117 light-years away.
Your weight doesn’t change because of gravity but because the floor pushes back. Physicists explain why elevators briefly make you feel heavier or lighter.
In 1974, physicist Stephen Hawking described the potential for tiny, primordial black holes that existed at the dawn of time to explode — and reshaped
Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.
The first historically recorded pandemic is believed to have struck the walled city of Jirash, in what is now modern-day Jordan, in the 7th century.
A new project allowed AI chatbots to interrupt, stay silent or speak up the way humans do in conversation, and it made them smarter and
A new NASA analysis concludes that it is “reasonable to hypothesize” that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.
An 11th-century Norse coin found in Maine raises the question of whether the Vikings landed there.
The Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project aims to demonstrate the carbothermal reduction of lunar regolith to produce oxygen on the Moon’s South Pole. For this
Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature — a strategy called heterothermy — and outlast storms, floods and predators.
A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed proto-writing in the Stone Age.
Feb. 28, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over
In shaking up its Artemis lunar program, NASA’s new moon plan looks more like the Apollo missions of the 1960s. Instead of landing on the
