3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (170+ words) The Bom Jesus set sail in March 1533, but it wrecked before it could return with its riches. Those riches took almost 500 years to resurface. “When I started, the artifacts were just sitting there collecting dust. They were deteriorating at a…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (104+ words) The painted creature inside an Etruscan tomb convinced mourners they were under its spell. A Bone Led to a Revolutionary War Mass Grave Why Scientists Buried Thousands of Undies in Soil Early Humans’ Brains Linked to Another Dimension Archaeologists Found…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (261+ words) Electrical activity that was fine-tuned in waking brains grew more chaotic under anesthesia. “The relationship between traveling waves and information transfer has been suggested previously,” the team writes in the study. “However, it has never been directly examined whether traveling…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (299+ words) Adding a whole new meaning to the phrase “soiled underwear.” Life begins with dirt. A vast majority of the food we eat originates with soil. Soil helps store carbon, acting as one of the largest carbon reservoirs on Earth. Soil…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (705+ words) New experiments raise important questions about what it means to die. Editor’s Note: This is one of Popular Mechanics’ greatest stories. It was initially published in December 2022. In 2018, Jahi’s family’s attorney announced that she had died of complications from liver…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (323+ words) A magnetized mix of oil, water, and nickel particles created a never-before-seen state. As Homer Simpson once famously phrased, “in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics,” but a completely unexpected discovery by a student at the University of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (144+ words) A rare bodily phenomenon may explain how the mummification process preserved her expression of agony for eternity. Her embalmers moved quickly enough to preserve her final spasm before it could fade—and in doing so, preserved a mystery that CT…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (166+ words) The human brain sometimes avoids decay for millennia while the rest of the body turns to bones. The human brain is made mostly of water, protein, carbohydrates, and fat—lots of fat. In fact, roughly 60 percent of the brain is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (399+ words) A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something wholly unexpected. The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (195+ words) The creation of Lake Mead in the 1930s flooded an old western town. Now, due to extreme drought, it’s slowly rising from the man-made lake. Of course, the entire purpose of the dam was to create an artificial lake in its…...