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Hidden Chambers Near King Tut’s Tomb Could Lead to Nefertiti

A high school teacher stumbled across two giant footprints

'One of the great unsolved mysteries of science': What general anaesthetic reveals about our brains

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Scientists Extracted DNA From Medieval Parchment—and Found a Hidden Disease

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There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

We need an observatory for the cooling north Atlantic

The Hard Problem of Consciousness Is a Soluble One

Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth's surface

Hobbyist Archaeologist Uncovers Finland’s Largest Viking-Age Coin Hoard

Apple to Make First Big Change to iPhones in Years

Man discovers Denmark’s largest Viking Age silver hoard while digging a terrace in his garden

AI Scanned 2 Million Earthquake Records and Found Six Hidden Zones Near Earth’s Core

First 'space elevator' — a 66,000-mile cable to the cosmos— closer than ever before as scientists make breakthrough

August research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Physicists predicted in 1936 that a powerful magnetic field could turn empty space into a kind of prism — and on August 5, 2026, observations of a magnetar with a field more than a trillion times Earth’s produced the strongest evidence yet that they were

Sony Bravia 9 II TV Review: The Best RGB LED TV I’ve Tested, but Here’s What to Buy Instead

5 Android phones you should buy instead of the Pixel 11 Pro XL

Weekly quiz: Where did builders find £7.6m worth of gold bars and coins?

See the long-lost relics unearthed by Europe's drying rivers amid the summer heat wave

News - Medieval Scottish Man May Be First Confirmed Case of Death by Trebuchet

Lost city in area tied to biblical Exodus may have finally been discovered in Egypt

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Archaeologists Have Unearthed a Rare and Mysterious Runestone at an Ancient Site in the Faroe Islands

Warship that sank in 1908 found off U.K. coast, revealing "final moments" before over half the crew died

AI Can Now Make Deepfake Biological Viruses. We Are Not Prepared

Samsung’s $1,900 Z Fold 8 is still vulnerable to pocket lint

Scientists discover new eyeless ‘demon cavefish’ in Alabama cave beneath Army base

Scientists Say Life on Earth May Have Begun Not Once, but Twice

A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay

With lucky dive, scientists get a front-row view of the creation of Earth’s surface

Scientists are certain a wayward SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon as predicted

The best Galaxy Z Fold 8 deal is at Amazon — boosted trade-in plus $350 gift card

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You don’t need to splurge on an expensive handheld fan to beat the heat

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Is smoke in your home? Here’s how to make an air purifier using a box fan

As wildfire smoke infiltrates homes and vehicles, experts and outlets are sharing DIY filtration methods and professional air purifier recommendations.

Brain scans of ISS astronauts show the organ quietly re-weighting its own senses during six months in orbit — turning down the silent inner ear and leaning almost entirely on the eyes to build a world with no down

Creating synthetic life in a lab? SpudCell falls short of the goal, but raises even more useful questions

Meta & Ray-Ban glasses rolling out mandatory update that disables the camera when privacy light is broken

Hobbit-like human relatives may have been on a less advanced evolutionary path

New evidence suggests 'hobbit' hominins survived by scavenging meat left over by Komodo dragons, potentially altering our understanding of human evolution.

The unsettling possibility raised by quantum gravity is that time may not be a basic ingredient of reality. It may be something that emerges only inside the universe, from entanglement, entropy, and relationships between physical systems

Budget TCL mini LED TV gets even cheaper with this Amazon deal

Tech deals on Prime Day 2026: Our picks for PC hardware, laptops, gadgets, and more

Major tech and home cinema discounts are surfacing as Amazon Prime Day 2026 begins.

Prime Day has some solid deals on Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox games