Spencer Clark is probably the most obscure American ever to appear on U.S. banknotes, and there are a surprising number of people (officially, 53) who've been featured on things like legal tender, silver certificates, Federal Reserve notes and, of course, your everyday currency notes.

The findings of a new study about communication between birds also offer key insights into the origins of language.

Classic rockers Blue Öyster Cult have issued a statement on their Facebook page regarding President Donald Trump's use of their 1976 hit "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" in a recently posted video. Trump published the AI-generated visual on his Truth Social page on the evening of October 2. This especially pisses me off

Autism expert Andrew Whitehouse speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how the diagnosis of autism has shifted since the 1990s and what’s that meant for autistic people.

Around this time last year, Google quietly added a service to smartphones running Android 9 called Android System Safetycore, which left many confused about what it actually did. [Read More]

China has expanded mock replicas of Taiwan’s government buildings at a major military training base to prepare for a potential takeover.

From peppermint to cumin, research suggests these herbs and spices could help soothe your digestive system.

An ocean flowing beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is spewing ice that holds the building blocks of life.

Rice University study shows quantum entanglement speeds molecular energy transfer, offering insights for future solar technologies.

From Babe Ruth’s barnstorming tours to Shohei Ohtani’s star power, baseball’s century-long ties to Japan have grown into one of Major League Baseball’s most reliable global growth strategies.

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, suggesting that copper smelters experimenting with iron-rich rocks may have unintentionally paved the way for the invention of iron. The [...]

The newly discovered 'black hole star' could explain the emergence of supermassive black holes in the early universe.

The idea of autism as a single spectrum has shaped thinking for decades. But many autistic people and researchers now argue the metaphor is misleading.

An “emotional and inspiring” archaeological find of Paleolithic tools has revealed a long-lost prehistoric passage that may have enabled movement between Ayvalık and Europe. Continuous stretches of land, now lying beneath the sea, may once have allowed early humans to move between what is now Türkiye and Europe, according to groundbreaking research in a region [...]

Marwan Barghouti has been in an Israeli prison for more than two decades.

Espionage hackers aligned with China are targeting foreign ministries, embassies and telcos across Africa, the Middle East and Asia, researchers have found.

This study not only revives an ancient craft but also uncovers how these tools were repurposed for pottery, highlighting Jomon ingenuity.

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis for some topics are more impactful than others. One of the most hotly debated topics of late in the astrobiological community has been whether or not life can exist on Venus - specifically in its cloud layers, some of which have some of the most Earth-like conditions anywhere in the solar system, at least in terms of pressure and temperature. A new paper from a team of American researchers have just added fuel to that debate by reanalyzing data from the Pioneer mission to Venus NASA launched in the 70s - and finding that the Venus’ clouds are primarily made out of water.

The Palestinian activist, jailed more than 20 years ago, tops the polls as Palestinians’ preferred leader.