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Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images Scorpions Are Basically Tiny X-Men, Scientists Say
New research found zinc, iron, and manganese reinforcing scorpion stingers and claws like tiny biological weapons.
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SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Scientists Made the First-Ever ‘Smell Map,’ and It’s Oddly Beautiful
Two new studies suggest the brain processes odors through a structured system, not the random sensory spaghetti researchers once assumed.
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Why Texas A&M Built the World’s Largest Science Lab for Blowing Stuff Up Real Good
Researchers will use controlled detonations to study industrial disasters, supernova physics, and hypersonic flight.
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Mike Kemp/Contributor/Getty Images Scientists Figured Out How Smart Neanderthals Were (We Were All Wrong)
A new study suggests the supposed cognitive gap between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been wildly overstated.
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Andrea Pucci/Getty Images Archaeologists Reconstruct the Face of a Man Killed in Mount Vesuvius Eruption
Researchers used skeletal remains and AI to imagine what one victim of Mount Vesuvius may have looked like.
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FHM/Getty Images ‘Haunted’ Houses Give Off Literal Bad Vibes, Scientists Say
What people are interpreting as the work of ghosts is really just the subtle hum of aging toilet pipes.
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Anadolu/Contributor/Getty Images Archaeologists Discovered a Lost Underwater Graveyard in a Tiny Stretch of Sea
The collection of shipwrecks includes Roman cargo ships, stealthy Spanish gunboats, WWII relics, and one very important box of combs.
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Lyubov Shmakova A ‘Zombie Worm’ Came Back to Life After 24,000 Years and Started Multiplying
A creature born during the Ice Age just had babies in a Russian laboratory. That’s pretty wild.
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