Depending on where you are in the world, you may have different names for White Elephant. Whether you call it Yankee Swap, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025, by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile and was quickly ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

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With the help of the VFX experts at Wēta FX, the filmmaker turned his focus to the physics of fire for 'Avatar 3' — and forged a villain alliance like no other.

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Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

Four new portraits have gone up at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, showcasing this year’s recipients of the ...

A movie would be shot the normal way, with a single-lensed camera, then shipped off to a giant team of rotoscopers who would ...

As the scuzzy VHS tape played, Diane Feese grew increasingly nauseous. She was a 15-year-old student at a Californian high school in June 1985, and her maths teacher, Bart Schwarz, was showing a film ...

A food shopper browses for groceries ahead of the Thanksgiving Day holiday at an Albertsons supermarket in Redmond, Washington, on November 24. David Ryder/Reuters A quarterly review finds that the ...