A 10-Year-Old Girl Went for a Walk on the Beach—and Stumbled Upon 5 Dinosaur Footprints

A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

This Unbreakable CIA Cipher Fooled the World for 37 Years. Then Two People Accidentally Solved It.

A single leaked hint exposed the CIA’s most puzzling code. But dozens of the world’s toughest ciphers are still waiting to be ...

The Astounding Pop Mech Show: Amelia Earhart’s Plane May Finally Be Found

An identical transmitter to the one aboard the aviator’s final flight may have produced the clue everyone’s been waiting for.

GM Is Saying Goodbye To Apple CarPlay

General Motors will be one of the few automakers to ditch support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Apple CarPlay and ...

She Was Half Ape, Half Human—and She May Hold the Secret to What Makes Us Who We Are

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

This Maya Calendar Has Been Perfectly Predicting Eclipses For 900 Years

The research team scoured the 12 th century C.E. Dresden Codex—a rare, fully preserved Maya book known for its eclipse table.

They Found a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Tombstone in Their Backyard. Then the FBI Showed Up.

The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans.

The True Root of Consciousness Isn't What We Think, a Scientist Says—And It Could Upend Who We Think We Are

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

Scientists Just Discovered What Killed Thousands of Napoleon’s Soldiers

His invasion of Russia was a bad idea anyway, but two ruthless pathogens that ripped through Bonparte’s army probably didn’t ...

I Tried The eufyMake E1 UV Printer and Was Blown Away by Its Potential for Craftsmen and Creatives

I tested the first consumer-grade UltraViolet printer to see if it what it can do for makers, and I was impressed.

This Object Appeared 90 Million Years After the Big Bang. It Could Rewrite the History of the Universe.

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

After 2,100 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Head of an Ancient Greek Statue

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...