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.
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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.
Pre-Sputnik Sky Photos Caught Mysterious Flashes. They Clustered Around Nuclear Tests.
Pre-Sputnik sky photos show mysterious flashes clustering around nuclear test dates. What exactly was up there before we started launching things?
A Medieval Surgeon Tried to Save a Pregnant Woman. The Grave Tells Her Story.
A 1,300-year-old grave in Italy holds a woman who underwent a risky brain surgery and a baby that shares an unexpected place in the coffin.
Ancient Clay Jar Might Be a Battery. Or a Prayer Box. Possibly Both.
A 2,000-year-old clay jar. Copper, iron, a sealed chamber. New research says it could've powered something. Experts say it probably held a prayer. Could it have been doing both?
A Spider That Dressed Up as a Zombie. The Costume Is Working.
A new Amazon spider wears a zombie fungus costume so convincing a field researcher grabbed it before realizing it was alive. What is nature even doing?
Every Person Who Eats This Mushroom Sees Tiny People
A mushroom sold in Chinese markets sends hundreds to the hospital each year with Lilliputian hallucinations.
A Dead Galaxy Is Screaming Radio Signals Into Space. It Shouldn't Be.
A galaxy that stopped making stars billions of years ago is firing off intense radio bursts — and the leading explanation involves ancient stellar corpses finding each other in the dark.
Neighbors Turned Killers: The Chimpanzee Civil War
They shared food, groomed each other, patrolled the same forest. Then, without ideology or grievance, they started killing. What broke 200 chimps into enemies?
Lightning That Forgot Which Way Is Down
There's lightning that shoots upward toward space — and scientists are still piecing together how it works. What else is the sky hiding above the clouds?
The Amazon Has a River That Boils. No Volcano Required.
A river in the Amazon nearly reaches boiling point — with no volcano anywhere nearby. Scientists have a theory. They'll admit it's not quite an answer.