The Herring Lassies of Scotland worked, travelled and left a unique mark on the history of working women.

The U.S. economy is flashing a troubling mix of signals.

It's the kind of stuff AI can be really useful at.

On a hot August night, jellyfish jammed a nuclear giant.

Robots can play music while we work our menial jobs.

This find from the deep ocean could prove to be a boon for multiple areas of health research.

Eliminating funds or scaling down the operations of Earth-observing satellites could be catastrophic.

They didn’t run away from us. It killed them in the end.

There were big flaws in how we estimated floods in coastal communities.

Can we trust systems we don’t fully understand?

Our civilization may be facing a “single gargantuan crash,” but collapse isn’t destiny. It’s a choice.

Size really does matter in tarantula romance.

The Black Mirror episodes are writing themselves now.

Researchers found the brain activity of optimists looked strikingly similar to that of other optimists.

Each team is defending one hemisphere!

Nordic capitals keep showing how we can eliminate traffic fatalities.

Wolves on an Alaskan island are showing a remarkable adaptation.

They're seriously not good for you.

The teeth Chico, they never lie.

It was one happy natural accident.

These findings challenge what we thought we knew about life in the deep sea.

Is Roman concrete more sustainable? It's complicated.

For a few surreal weeks, the dystopian future ran inside a mini-fridge in San Francisco.

Microscopic plastic particles are everywhere and there's more than we thought.

Does God play dice with the universe? Well, depends who you ask.

What if the future of artificial intelligence depends on your town running out of water?

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Forget concrete and steel. The real future is wood.

Sometimes new problems need old solutions.

The Babylonians had quite a knack for organizing things.

There's just something about the sea.

From Roman artifacts to Picasso's gowns, this museum lets you hold the past.

We should be more thankful for what's in our mouths.

The two companies have different approaches, but is one better?

Microbial inks may soon give buildings the power to breathe, heal, and fight pollution.

Uranus is heating up from the inside.

Generative AI turns to helping historians decipher ancient Roman history.

Solar is 40% cheaper, and onshore wind is under half the price.

His genome held strange secrets: a turbocharged alcohol gene, rewired brain chemistry, and a slow-burn caffeine receptor.

It's not The Handmaid's Tale, though that could also come in handy.

It's happening again.

When the prescription runs out, the kilos come back.

Could a machine outthink the brightest young mathematicians on the planet?

You gut microbes seem to produce more formate when you exercise and this may be key to fighting tumors.

It's a completely new way to interact with computers.

In principle, the method could be deployed tomorrow, researchers say.

This hydrogel could help millions of people lead a better life.

There's a big hidden cost to this practice.

What if the Stone Age wasn't really about stone?

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.