Spain declassifies files on 1981 attempted coup in effort to dispel conspiracy theories

Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade

More than 21% of Americans between 2 and 19 years old are obese, up from 5.2% in the early 1970s

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London have overturned a long-standing assumption about how life begins at the molecular level

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London have overturned a long-standing assumption about how life begins at the molecular level

Markings on ancient bone and ivory objects show that humans were storing information outside their heads more than 30,000 years before the first known “writing"

The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being dismantled after almost 40 years

Early spring at Borgvik, Grums Municipality, Värmland, Sweden; the rapids of Borgviksälven running through the old iron works in Borgvik (2014)

The Egg Nebula from the Hubble Telescope

Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities

Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities

Iron Age grave site discovered in northern Serbia reveals evidence of a 2,800-year-old mass killing; 40 of more than 77 victims were younger than 12 years old

A Trump-appointed judge permanently blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report into the president’s actions in the classified-documents case

Same-sex marriage is now legal in 39 countries (2025)

Same-sex marriage is now legal in 39 countries (2025)

A dozen public health experts are arriving in South Carolina to help the state contain the largest US measles outbreak in more than 30 years, but they're not coming from the CDC

Winter landscape with skaters (1608)

Japanese 1945 propaganda film emphasizing 1924 song "Indonesia Raya" as the de facto national anthem of Indonesia during Japanese occupation

Finnair Airbus A319-112 OH-LVL landing at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in snowfall conditions (2017)

Orbicular batfish, Red Sea, Egypt (2023)