More than 50,000 people tried it. They experienced grief, peace, and even altered consciousness.

And scientists can’t explain the creepy correlation.

Fragile clay molds hidden for 3,000 years could reveal who cast Scotland’s strangest bronze objects.

Human bodies getting cooler is compounding the problem.

A pharaoh’s five-foot head surfaced in a yard, and archaeologists think far more still lies beneath it.

Study after study shows that humans reliant on AI will misremember past events or even fabricate details completely.

A new analysis found fewer than half the prints came from adult men, leading to a shocking realization.

Rescues make headlines, but staying alive at sea comes down to a well-ordered checklist.

A simulated universe implies that the cosmos has an intentional design—or does it?

Ancient South African rocks expose the chain reaction behind life’s first real growth spurt.

The code outlasted two centuries of cryptographers, but a single prompt undid it in an afternoon.

The fridge heist exposed a hidden plan to turn grocery coolers into giant grid batteries.

The fourth-century church and bishop’s palace may explain how Venice rose from a dying city.

What comes next could reshape our understanding of the world—ancient and modern.

The Green Revolution did wonders to increase calories to feed a growing population, but the nutritional value of those crops didn’t experience the same boom.

Experts simulated a rush to deploy solar geoengineering against global warming. The science was the least of their problems.

A silver scroll buried near Rome’s frontier hints at a faith with surprisingly blurry boundaries.

In the middle of the Cold War, the film company found a surprising way to harness weapons-grade uranium.

The discovery of a sailor’s body outside the wreck offered a haunting new clue to the mystery—and complicated it even more.

Suddenly everything becomes unfamiliar...