Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of the most hostile environments in the solar system, blasted by radiation strong enough to kill a human in hours. Yet beneath its frozen surface may lie a saltwater ocean ...

I am pretty sure that we've all had these moments when we thought that our presence was being "honored" by a ghost or an ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.

A Swiss Brown cow has been shown to use tools flexibly and deliberately, challenging long-standing assumptions about the cognitive limits of livestock. In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson introduced ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...

A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

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Scientists and NASA officials insist the object is a natural comet, not alien technology. Recent observations found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it was artificial. The comet made ...

Astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 3I/ATLAS was confirmed as the third known object to enter our solar system from interstellar ...

When some scientists and conspiracy theorists saw the strange trajectory of the space object 3I/ATLAS, some of them thought one thing: aliens. With a bizarre shape, an unusually precise trajectory, ...