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Swiss scientists buried cotton underwear in 1,000 gardens to measure, with surprising precision, the health of the soil.

An 18-year-old intern stumbled on gold hidden in the wall of an old Belgian villa: 49 numbered bars worth roughly $10 million.

Astronomers have finally photographed the secret companion of Betelgeuse, a star that existed only in theory for a hundred years.

Meet the lizard named after Syrax, Rhaenyra’s dragon in House of the Dragon. Thailand’s new species is no mere fan whim, scientists say.

A book hidden in a chimney for 150 years has resurfaced in Kiama, Australia, with a fine that would have topped $28,000.

On August 5, 2026, at 2:35 a.m. Eastern time, something slammed into the Moon at more than 8,700 km/h (5,400 mph). It wasn’t an asteroid or a stray meteorite. It was the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, a piece of space junk that had been drifting aimlessly for about a year and … Read more

In 1946, a teenage girl told her school guidance counselor she wanted to be an astronomer. The reply she got was: “What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?” Eighty years later, that same girl —Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief of astronomy— has her name on the most ambitious space telescope the United States … Read more

Your wifi router has been doing more than serving you internet for years now: it might be learning to recognize you by the way you walk across the living room. It sounds like sci-fi paranoia, but a team of German researchers has just shown it’s very real, with an accuracy level that’s genuinely unsettling. Researchers … Read more

Picture this: the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning of everything, but more of a bounce. There was another universe before ours, shrinking down and down under brutal density, and instead of vanishing into nothing, that collapse slammed on the brakes and reversed into expansion. Sounds like a sci-fi pitch, but that’s exactly what a physicist … Read more

In the historic center of Tønsberg, Norway’s oldest town, a team of archaeologists was doing about as unglamorous a job as it gets: keeping an eye on a municipal drainage trench. Just seven centimeters down, archaeologist Linda Åsheim spotted something poking out of the dirt that had been waiting there for over 800 years: a … Read more