New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

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A strange black fungus discovered inside the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 doesn’t just resist radiation—it appears to feed ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to come thick and fast. But when we've found it, how will we know for sure?

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

Below the surface, Seneca Lake’s bed is a lunar landscape, with large pockmarks of unknown origin. Chloride levels are mysteriously high. And, most famously, occasional unexplained booming sounds ...

The UK NDA has partnered with Bicycle Therapeutics to extract lead-212 from reprocessed uranium for life-saving cancer ...

Nuclear can play a role in Utah, but it likely will be too expensive to ever be our primary energy source,” writes Tim Fitzpatrick in an op-ed. “We should work on the stuff more Utahns can afford.” ...

Superconductors promise loss-free electricity, but most only work at extreme cold. Hydrogen-rich materials changed that—yet their inner workings remained hidden because they only exist under enormous ...

Particles that escaped Earth’s atmosphere accumulated on the lunar surface over billions of years. Here’s what you’ll learn ...