This rare example of an Aztec ritual mask was carved from wood over five centuries ago to represent Mictlantecuhtli, the god ...

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 ...

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Humans have been searching the stars for alien radio signals for decades — and so far, E.T. has not phoned home. But that doesn’t mean intelligent life isn’t out there, a new study hints. Rather, ...

Planet Earth Rivers & Oceans Collapse of key Atlantic currents may be held off by newly-discovered back-up system, study finds Rising temperatures in the North Atlantic are slowing vital currents, but ...

Planet Earth Atacama Desert’s center dried out 20 million years earlier than previously thought — before the Andes formed Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of ...

Space Astronomy James Webb telescope finds a cosmic cloud of creation buried in the Sword of Orion — Space photo of the week A new James Webb telescope snap shows off the glowing gas, sculpted jets ...

Science news this week: Goblin shark filmed for first time, California close to a major quake, physicists split photon, and inside China's plans to 'tame nature' June 20, 2026: Our weekly roundup of ...

Health 'You kill the bacteria and heal the wound at the same time': Emerging nanotech could be the future of wound healing Slow-healing lesions — common in diabetics and burn victims — can lead to ...

Archaeologists have discovered an iron cannonball fired by Texans at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. This is the second intact cannonball they have discovered from the famous conflict. The first one, ...

In response to the Disneyland outbreak, we ended up passing SB-277 in California and a number of other important vaccination ...

"This is the most dense fungal forest on Earth, and they're under wild grasslands," study first author Justin Stewart, an evolutionary biologist at the Society for the Protection of Underground ...