Visitors can now descend 46 feet underground into the newly reopened tomb of Amenhotep III, one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful rulers. Closed to the public for over two decades, the 3,400-year-old ...

Warmer oceans hold more heat, and more heat means more fuel, so research increasingly links the warming seas to stronger storms and to these sudden bursts of intensification. Bavi’s own strengthening ...

Here is why researchers care. Aluminum oxide acts as a catalyst that can trigger the chemical reactions that destroy ozone, the layer shielding us from harmful ultraviolet light. The particles are not ...

In a study published in May 2026, paleontologists identified a new species of giant marine reptile that lived in the oceans covering present day Texas 80 million years ago. Named Tylosaurus rex, the ...

A research team at MIT has developed a non-invasive alternative that spares patients from open heart surgery. In a study published June 2, 2026, in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers detailed ...

To utilize this data more fully, the researchers developed an AI system called SleepFM. Unlike narrow algorithms built for a single task, SleepFM operates as a foundation model, similar in spirit to ...

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Paleontologists have recovered the southernmost fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest known relative of all primates. The discovery occurred in Colorado's Denver Basin. The project pushes the known ...

Damage discovered hours before departure On November 5, 2025, the Shenzhou 20 crew stood hours away from undocking to return home after a six month mission. Routine final inspections, however, ...

The candidate pair resides inside Abell 402-BCG, a galaxy located an estimated 4.4 billion light years from Earth. In 2018, astronomers first noticed an unusual feature at the galaxy’s center: a dark, ...

Fast-paced urban growth, alongside reduced sediment delivery from dammed and heavily modified rivers, makes things even worse. To give just one example: in the Mississippi Delta, nearly 1,930 square ...

As a technology journalist and editor at Futura, Sylvain covers a wide spectrum of topics—cybersecurity, the rise of electric vehicles, drones, space science and emerging technologies. Every day he ...