Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried a vast collection of scrolls in ash and scorched them into solid black lumps. Now, without unrolling them, researchers have virtually read two of them —‬ ...

Space Astronomy Strawberry Moon 2026: Tonight's full moon is the lowest, and one of the smallest 'micromoons' all year June's full Strawberry Moon will be the lowest-hanging and one of the smallest ...

Elsewhere in space, JWST captured the formation of a distant star, 1,280 light-years away in the constellation Orion, while the Euclid space telescope snapped the most detailed photo of the Milky Way ...

With the aid of AI, scientists have identified a potential new antibiotic to treat gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that's increasingly resistant to drugs. The newfound antibiotic ...

The microplate could be focusing seismic energy in a straight line in a region under the Alaska Range of mountains, potentially contributing to large earthquakes and the development of small volcanoes ...

However, DNA from Neanderthals is rare, and high-quality genomes are especially uncommon; until the new study, only four were available, three of which came from Russia, at the edge of the ...

The burst was made up of two X-ray flares, about 200 seconds apart, that likely came from the same object. Their behavior is most consistent with powerful cosmic explosions known as gamma ray bursts — ...

The study used two existing drugs: the antipsychotic chlorpromazine and the sedative promethazine, called "C+P" when they're used together. This drug combo induced hypothermia and protected brain ...

The band, called a Kelvin wave, marks a swell of higher-than-average sea levels that stretches hundreds of miles along the equator. The anomaly is caused by warmer waters linked to El Niño — the warm ...

The bronze oil lamp is significantly smaller than a life-size foot, measuring just 3.25 inches (8.3 centimeters) long. Still attached to the lamp is a chain with a hook for hanging, which is over 17 ...

Animals Land Mammals Cats Outdoor cats can be exposed to dangerous germs — here's how to protect you and your pets, according to more than 400 studies Ecologists and a veterinarian looked at more than ...

The findings, published June 11 in the journal Science, come from the largest-ever map of Denisovan-inherited DNA ever created. The discovery shows that Denisovan DNA "is not just a remnant of ancient ...