A recent detection from JWST is being widely discussed. The discoverers suggest that it might be an incredible record-breaker: it could be the oldest galaxy
In the 1980s, a combination of persecution and habitat loss led to America’s red wolf being declared extinct in the wild. Conservation efforts to restore
The “alien mothership” hypothesis for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is about to have a key test, as it hits solar conjunction and perihelion. What does that
For nearly 35 years, a hidden message has lurked in plain sight on a sculpture outside the cafeteria of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
A United Boeing 737-8 MAX flying from Denver, Colorado, to Los Angeles, California, was diverted to Salt Lake City on October 16, following an incident
A new study highlights just how flexible the human body can be by demonstrating that in adult transgender women receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy, several key
People are ever so slightly horrified after learning the truth about how cranberries are grown and harvested. Every now and then on the Internet, people
Back in 2017, scientists finally described what became the world’s newest great ape species: the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis). It should’ve been cause for celebration,
Polar Bears International (PBI) is serious about protecting bears, and in the pursuit of reliable data, has gone to some extremes in the past. From
The world of botany is usually pretty good at following certain rules. It was previously thought that because the Fibonacci sequence is present in the structure of
A gene that was carried by both Neanderthals and Denisovans causes mice to develop larger heads, twisted ribs, and shortened spines, according to the results published in
A record-breaking goldfish has been caught in Champagne, France, back in 2022 when an angler dragged a 30-kilogram (67-pound) specimen from BlueWater Lakes. The carp fishery released the
This week, an “anti-tail” and an odd 594-kilometer (369-mile) feature have been found on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, brain training has been found to significantly improve
It seems every year lately is a world-beater. As in, the violent kind of “beating”: we’ve seen new record high temperatures again and again and
Airborne lasers have revealed four long, low dry-stone structures on the Karst Plateau in Italy and Slovenia. The team that discovered them believes the walls
Over and over again IFLScience and other popular science websites report on the discovery of an element or molecule in space, whether in a star,
Every so often, the Internet rediscovers a food fact you’d think everyone already knew. But hey, we’re all still learning, right? In recent times, it
