Deep inside the tomb of  Scorpion I (no relation to the Rock), scientists discovered Egypt’s oldest wines.

And now it appears the 5,000-year-old wines were spiked with natural medicines—centuries before the practice was thought to exist in Egypt, researchers say.

Archaeochemist Patrick McGovern and colleagues found chemical residues of herbs, tree resins, and other natural substances inside wine jars from the tomb, the previously discovered resting place of one of Egypt’s first pharaohs (ancient Egypt time line).

While the additives may have been flavorful, they were picked for their medical benefits, said McGovern, …

An unexpected new subatomic particle has been discovered in Illinois’s Fermilab atom smasher, scientists announced this week. The new particle may break all known rules for creating matter, say the researchers who created the oddity.
Y(4140)—as the new particle has been dubbed—couldn’t have formed through either of the two known models for matter creation. Researchers aren’t even sure what Y(4140) is made of.
It’s long been accepted that six different “flavors” of particles called quarks combine to form larger subatomic particles.
In one method, a quark pairs with one of …

Look on the bright side—this luminous new jellyfish species doesn’t sting.

Jellyfish expert Lisa Gershwin caught the unnamed species in early March while swimming near a jetty off the Australian island of Tasmania with a “phototank”—a small aquarium that makes it easy to photograph sea life.

The jellyfish does not emit its own light, as bioluminescent creatures do. (Related: “Monster Glowing Squid Caught on Camera.”)

Rather, its rainbow glow emanates from light reflecting off the creature’s cilia, small hairlike projections that beat simultaneously to move the jellyfish through the water.

(See a blue jellyfish …