1. Traces of hallucinogenic plants and chile peppers found at Maya ball court suggest rituals took place there
5. We've never seen the Fitbit Versa at this rock bottom price before, surely it won't be around long
6. 1,430 ancient Roman graves scattered with funerary festival leftovers unearthed in southern France
9. Tweak to Schrödinger's cat equation could unite Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, study hints
11. Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
13. 1st self-driving car that 'lets you take your eyes off the road' goes on sale in the US — and it's not a Tesla
15. China green-lights mass production of autonomous flying taxis — with commercial flights set for 2025
16. 'We have combined two marvels of modern medicine': Woman gets pig kidney and heart pump in groundbreaking procedures
21. DNA analysis spanning 9 generations of people reveals marriage practices of mysterious warrior culture
22. Hidden 'biosphere' of extreme microbes discovered 13 feet below Atacama Desert is deepest found there to date
26. 5 catastrophic megathrust earthquakes led to the demise of the pre-Aztec city of Teotihuacan, new study suggests
29. Claude 3 Opus has stunned AI researchers with its intellect and 'self-awareness' — does this mean it can think for itself?
33. Weapons chest found on wreck of 15th-century 'floating castle' sheds light on 'military revolution at sea'
34. Explosive black hole flare from the center of our galaxy reconstructed from 'a single flickering pixel' using AI and Einstein's equations
35. 4 solar flares simultaneously erupt from the sun in rare 'super' explosion — and Earth could be hit by the fallout
38. Strange 'minimoon' orbiting alongside Earth may be a piece of the far side of the moon, new research hints
39. Massive heat wave and a supercell thunderstorm caused deadly, baseball-sized hailstones to rain down on Spain
40. Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagine
45. Hundreds of emperor penguin chicks spotted plunging off a 50-foot cliff in 1st-of-its-kind footage
46. 'Unprecedented,' 'Gobsmacked', 'Unbelievable': Changes in Antarctica's sea ice could have dramatic impacts, says climate scientist Edward Doddridge
49. 'I nearly fell out of my chair': 1,800-year-old mini portrait of Alexander the Great found in a field in Denmark
56. Space photo of the week: Bizarre 'Helix Galaxy' is unlike any other in the universe. Can you see why?
60. Rare 'porcelain gallbladder' found in 100-year-old unmarked grave at Mississippi mental asylum cemetery
62. Packs of dog-shaped robots could one day roam the moon — if they can find their footing on Earth first
63. See the explosive 'devil comet' get its tail ripped off by a solar storm days before its close approach to the sun
64. Global 'time signals' subtly shifted as the total solar eclipse reshaped Earth's upper atmosphere, new data shows
65. 'There's a great hidden museum in the Mediterranean': Underwater archaeologist David Gibbins takes us on a journey to 12 shipwrecks around the world
71. Aliens may be hitching rides on meteors to colonize the cosmos, study suggests. Here's how we could spot them.
72. Future quantum computers could use bizarre 'error-free' qubit design built on forgotten research from the 1990s
74. Scientists are one step closer to knowing the mass of ghostly neutrinos — possibly paving the way to new physics
78. Weird magnetic quasiparticle could be used as a new type of bit in advanced computing systems, scientists find
83. Researchers solve mystery of inexplicably dense galaxy at the heart of perfect 'Einstein ring' snapped by James Webb telescope
84. Lyrid meteor shower 2024: How to watch stunning shooting stars and 'fireballs' during the event's peak this week
91. The universe may be dominated by particles that break causality and move faster than light, new paper suggests
96. 2,500-year-old skeletons with legs chopped off may be elites who received 'cruel' punishment in ancient China
97. Anglerfish entered the midnight zone 55 million years ago and thrived by becoming sexual parasites
98. NASA's downed Ingenuity helicopter has a 'last gift' for humanity — but we'll have to go to Mars to get it
105. NASA Mars samples, which could contain evidence of life, will not return to Earth as initially planned
107. Explosive 'devil comet' 12P will soon be at its brightest and best. Here's how to see it before it disappears.
109. Infamous boat-sinking orcas spotted hundreds of miles from where they should be, baffling scientist
110. 6 strange things observed during the April 8 solar eclipse: From doomed comets to 'diamond rings'
113. Tired of your laptop battery degrading? New 'pulse current' charging process could double its lifespan.
115. 2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope
123. Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last ice age, 4,000 stone artifacts reveal
125. 'Most of Gorongosa's large animals had died': How an African paradise for nature recovered from the ravages of war
127. Space photo of the week: NASA spots enormous pink 'flames' during total solar eclipse. What are they?
136. There's a baby star 'sneezing' in the constellation Taurus — and it could solve a longstanding cosmic mystery
137. Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals
138. 'Exceptional' prosthesis of gold, silver and wool helped 18th-century man live with cleft palate
141. China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence — where AI is smarter than humans
143. James Webb telescope finds origins of the biggest explosion since the Big Bang — revealing a new cosmological mystery
144. Strange light spotted over distant 'hell planet' may be 1st rainbow 'glory' found beyond our solar system
146. Immensely powerful 'magnetar' is emitting wobbly radio signals in our galaxy — and scientists can't explain them
148. Underwater mountain range off Easter Island hosts creatures unknown to science, expedition reveals
150. Toxic formaldehyde in hair-straightening products to be banned — but experts say it's 'not enough'
155. No, you didn't see a solar flare during the total eclipse — but you may have seen something just as special
158. Tiny 'sungrazer' comet discovered, photographed and destroyed — all during historic total solar eclipse
159. Viking Age women with cone-shaped skulls likely learned head-binding practice from far-flung region
161. Superfast drone fitted with new 'rotating detonation rocket engine' approaches the speed of sound
162. Pet fox with 'deep relationship with the hunter-gatherer society' buried 1,500 years ago in Argentina
163. 'You could feel the energy and wonder': Despite clouds, totality wows crowds during solar eclipse in Syracuse
170. Eclipse from space: See the moon's shadow race across North America at 1,500 mph in epic satellite footage
173. Elusive prickly sharks spotted gathering at underwater mountain off Panama — but why remains a mystery
180. 8,200-year-old campsite of 'Paleo-Archaic' peoples discovered on US Air Force base in New Mexico
182. Thousands of hidden meteorites could be lost forever as they sink in Antarctic ice, taking their cosmic secrets with them
186. Hundreds of mysterious 'rogue' planets discovered by James Webb telescope may finally have an explanation
188. Longest eclipse ever: How scientists rode the supersonic Concorde jet to see a 74-minute totality
195. The sun is surprisingly quiet right now. What does this mean for the April 8 total solar eclipse?
198. New York college becomes 1st university with on-campus IBM quantum computer that is 'scientifically useful'
199. NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system
200. Giant coyote killed in southern Michigan turns out to be a gray wolf — despite the species vanishing from region 100 years ago
210. Error-corrected qubits 800 times more reliable after breakthrough, paving the way for 'next level' of quantum computing
213. Maya nobility performed bloodletting sacrifices to strengthen a 'dying' sun god during solar eclipses
224. Stars, planets and more will be visible during the total solar eclipse on April 8. Here's what to look for, and where.
226. Group of 60 ultra-faint stars orbiting the Milky Way could be new type of galaxy never seen before
228. Mysterious object that crashed through Florida home was likely space junk from the International Space Station
230. 'It's had 1.1 billion years to accumulate': Helium reservoir in Minnesota has 'mind-bogglingly large' concentrations
233. Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds
239. 'You probably didn't inherit any DNA from Charlemagne': What it means when your DNA 'matches' a historic person's
241. Hidden chunk of Earth's crust that seeded birth of 'Scandinavia' discovered through ancient river crystals
251. Skeleton panda sea squirt: The weird little creature that looks like baby panda dressed up for Halloween
262. Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps — 1.2 million times faster than your home broadband connection
275. VR headsets vulnerable to 'Inception attacks' — where hackers can mess with your sense of reality and steal your data
278. Milky Way's monster black hole may be shooting superheated jets into our galaxy, groundbreaking images reveal
279. 1st detection of 'hiccupping' black hole leads to surprising discovery of 2nd black hole orbiting around it
284. Ötzi the Iceman used surprisingly modern technique for his tattoos 5,300 years ago, study suggests
286. Future quantum computers will be no match for 'space encryption' that uses light to beam data around — with the 1st satellite launching in 2025
288. New diamond transistor is a world-1st — paving the way for high-speed computing at the highest temperatures
296. Hurry, the solar eclipse is fast approaching, but not a soon as the end of this excellent Unistellar deal
297. MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster
299. 'You could almost see and smell their world': Remnants of 'Britain's Pompeii' reveal details of life in Bronze Age village