Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in ...

Why do humans have a taste for alcohol? The answer may go back millions of years. It's called the drunken monkey hypothesis. Humans get their alcoholic appetite from primate ancestors, and UC Berkeley ...

A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of an evaporating black hole. Moreover, because the work relies on the ...

Long baleen whale mothers are more likely to have female calves than males, according to a new study led by the University of Washington. The findings contradict a popular evolutionary hypothesis ...

The woman later claimed to receive a second message promising that she and her small group of followers would be rescued by a flying saucer at midnight, December 20. A team of social psychologists ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, showers of radiation, and even the building blocks of gold and platinum.

Neutrinos are one of the most enigmatic particles in the standard model. The main reason is that they're so hard to detect. Despite the fact that 400 trillion of them created in the Sun are passing ...

The highest energy neutrino ever detected from space may finally have an origin story. Mathematical analyses suggest that the ghost particle could’ve come from a theoretical object known as a ...

A telescope buried deep under the sea has caught the most energetic particle of its kind ever recorded. The international KM3NeT team announced the discovery in a scientific paper. The particle was ...

Human cravings for booze may have deep evolutionary roots, a new study has shown. The study, published in Science Advances, involved observing the eating behaviors of chimpanzees—"our closest living ...