The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about human history and geology. Every so often, sonar technology or daring deep ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was predicted in the 1980s and first recreated in a laboratory in 2018. With each ...

A federal judge Tuesday ordered Trump ally Lindsey Halligan to explain why she continues to call herself the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia even though another judge determined in ...

Far beneath us, large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) and ULVZs under Africa and the Pacific at Earth's core-mantle boundary may be relics of a core-leaking infancy. Trump wants nations to pay ...

Crime rates in the U.S. fell in 2025. Murders in particular fell dramatically. That is a major takeaway among criminal justice experts as we approach the year's end. Crime rates in the U.S. fell ...

An unmanned submarine mapping West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf reported strange under-ice structures, then went silent ten miles beneath it. The vehicle, called Ran, had spent weeks scanning an ice ...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “It: Welcome to Derry” Episode 8. The “It: Welcome to Derry” season finale finally revealed why the show planned to release seasons going further and further ...

Far below your feet, nearly 1,800 miles beneath oceans and continents, Earth carries two massive scars from its violent youth. They are so large they rival continents in size, yet no human will ever ...

“Directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers (BCPs) has long been included in the semiconductor roadmap as a lithographic pathway to enable continued device scaling. Tremendous progress has been ...

Strange structures at Earth’s core–mantle boundary may be relics of early core–mantle mixing, revealing new clues about how our planet formed, cooled, and ultimately became uniquely habitable. Credit: ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...