The Dark Matter Answer May Have Arrived From Before Time Began
The invisible glue holding galaxies together may be wreckage from a universe that died before ours began. Could dark matter predate the Big Bang itself?
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Lab-Grown Brain Tissue Can Play Pong. The Next Question Is Does It Feel.
Scientists are linking lab-grown brain tissue into structures complex enough that researchers are now seriously asking, in peer-reviewed journals, whether they could be conscious. There are no regulations yet.
A WWII Navy Blimp Landed Itself in a California Suburb. The Crew Was Gone.
The blimp came back. The crew didn't. Eight decades later, the Navy's own investigation couldn't explain why two experienced airmen simply ceased to exist mid-flight.
Earth's Magnetic Shield Has a Dent That Just Got Half a Continent Bigger
Our planet's force field has a growing weak spot over the South Atlantic. Could it signal a pending magnetic pole reversal?
Space Sent Bigger Fireballs in March. People Noticed.
Double the fireballs. Rocks through roofs. Sonic booms every three days. Scientists have ruled out meteor showers, camera effects and AI. What's left?
Someone Served Neandertal Women for Dinner. Researchers Finally ID'd the Guests.
Bones from a Belgian cave reveal targeted cannibalism of outsider Neandertal women and children 45,000 years ago — and what that selectivity says about who Neandertals really were.
Something Noisy Below Tuscany Turned Out to Be on Fire
Beneath Tuscany's vineyards and medieval hill towns, a surprise the size of Yellowstone waits.
Mars Volcano Is Changing the Planet
A planet declared geologically dead for billions of years may have an active mantle plume.
A Brain That Should Be Dead Is Alive
The line between recoverable and not-recoverable for brain activity has moved.
Alien Life May Be Hiding in the Math
We've been looking for life one planet at a time. A new method says that's the wrong scale entirely.
Water Is Both a Liquid and a Liquid. The Wording is Not a Mistake.
After 130 years, super fast xray technology allowed scientists to confirm a strange fact they suspected about water.
The People Who Built Teotihuacan Told Their Story. Archaeologists Are Just Learning to Read It.
A city of 125,000 people, monumental pyramids, and pottery covered in symbols that need decoding.
Lake Huron Hides an Ancient Civilization
Beneath Lake Huron stone hunting structures sit undisturbed, built on a land bridge that vanished 9,000 years ago.
Invisible Voices Make Accurate Diagnosis
A woman's hallucinations gave her a medical diagnosis, a hospital address, and a farewell. The tumor was real. Medicine still doesn't have a clean answer for the rest of it.
The Death Ball Is a Sponge. It Earned the Name.
A newly discovered sponge from the Southern Ocean has tiny hooks instead of filter pores. It doesn't wait for food to drift by. What else is down there hunting in the dark?
The U.S. Government Now Owns Alien Domains. The Sites Are Empty. The Explanation Is "Stay Tuned."
The U.S. quietly registered alien.gov during a shutdown and won’t say why. With UFO files about to drop, what does the domain grab mean?
Something Invisible Is Warping Space. No Current Dark Matter Model Explains It.
An invisible object weighing a million suns is warping space 11 billion light-years away — and every dark matter model we have fails to explain it.
46 Named UFO Videos. A Congressional Deadline The Pentagon Missed.
Congress didn't ask what might exist. They asked for specific files, by name. Someone gave them the list.