In the high desert of Oregon, inside Cougar Mountain Cave, scientists have discovered world’s oldest known example of sewn clothing. For 12,400 years, the cave’s arid air preserved two small scraps of ...

Imagine that you want to know the most efficient way to make a torus—a doughnut-shaped mathematical object—from origami paper. Instead of seeming almost perfectly smooth, the torus that you envision ...

Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark matter near the Sun. Led by astrophysicist Sukanya Chakrabarti, the research ...

A driver was shocked to discover that a discarded disposable vape had punctured their tire, leading to a costly repair.

A new study suggests humans can sense hidden objects without touching them, by detecting faint movements in sand. This unexpected form of “remote touch” challenges traditional ideas about how the ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), working with international collaborators, have made a striking discovery involving a previously unknown type of cosmic ...

An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect ...

Current AI models fail to recognize ‘relational’ image similarities, such as how the Earth’s layers are similar to a peach, missing a key aspect of how humans perceive images. Comparisons of this kind ...

A wholesome and sweet challenge has grown in popularity on TikTok, with people trying to guess at (and lie about) what various household objects they are holding. The challenge has led to some very ...