The term crop circle was coined in the 1980s to describe circular patterns found in flattened crops. Most appeared in the ...

Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unlocked the most detailed genetic blueprint yet of a major ...

In the summer of 1996, a bizarre crop formation appeared outside of Butte, Nebraska—capturing the attention of locals and investigators alike. A perfect circle appeared in a ripe barley field. No ...

Dark circles under a child's eyes look dramatic, but they are rarely a sign of anything dangerous. Most cases come down to nasal congestion or simple genetics. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, explains ...

In 1995, divers first noticed a group of bizarre sandy "crop circles" on the seabed around Amami Oshima Island, southwest Japan. But it took decades for scientists to identify the marine artists ...

This is not the most pressing issue in the trailer for Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s newest film out in June 2026, but isn’t Colin Firth looking a little bit like Bill Pullman lately? He’s got ...

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Scientists decoded DNA from millennia-old lentils preserved in volcanic rock silos on Gran Canaria. The findings show that today’s Canary Island lentils largely descend from varieties brought from ...

The intrigue, though, lies in the sheer number of them. “One of the archaeologists in the ’80s went out and did his best estimate in counting, and he counted 500 in 9 square miles,” Hayley Elsken told ...

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, that question sat on the fringe of science, it was filed next to crop ...

• The pan-genome consists of the genomes of 26 modern cultivars and landraces as well as seven wild oat lines. • The team also built a pan-transcriptome—showing which genes are active in which genomes ...