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Hidden beneath Antarctic ice, a red brine pool contains marine microbial DNA, supporting evidence of an a

Darwin’s Sticky Hairs

In Brazil, an 80-million-year-old fossil may reveal how snakes first traded walking for slithering

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose From Non-Living Matter TWICE

Neptune’s moons were born from cosmic disasters—scientists stunned by new evidence

CDC expands largest known cyclospora outbreak to 15 states

Mall worker, 22, dies in Kumamoto explosion after being ordered to return inside to secure sales money

AI Helps Crack an 87-Year-Old Math Conjecture With One Tiny Formula

Neurologists Warn This Everyday Noise Could Be Aging Your Brain

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was around ten kilometres wide and hit 66 million years ago, and a 2024 study of rare metals in the debris it left behind traced its birthplace to beyond Jupiter, in the outer solar system

While the Northern Hemisphere endured summer heat, Antarctica's Concordia Station fell to minus 119.4°F,

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40,000-year-old bird figurines the size of a thumbnail discovered in German cave

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Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon

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Ancient DNA Reveals Woolly Mammoth With A Sex Chromosome Combination Never Before Seen In An Extinct Species

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Like an Ancient 'Turducken': Fossil Captures Cretaceous Sea Monsters Devouring Each Other

As France tames wildfire and lets 84,000 evacuees go home, blazes flare across Europe

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Fossil footprints reveal body size and group dynamics of 1.4-million-year-old human relative

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Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers will peak this week

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Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming

Researchers are exploring a linguistic 'golden age' where humans spoke thousands more languages than they do today.

Upstairs, Downstairs, in a House Full of Spies

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Owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage

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Paralyzed Man Can Feed Himself and Pet His Dog Again Thanks to Double Neural Bypass Surgery

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Planetary-mass exosatellite detected around the substellar companion of a star

When a SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon, scientists will be watching

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Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals

Pit found by Quebecer confirmed to be a 390-million-years-old meteorite impact crater

A Quebecer finds 390-million-year-old meteorite impact crater on Google Maps

Track’s once-mythical record falls after 27 years

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Earth-like LHS 1140b May Feature The First Atmosphere Found On Exoplanet

Scientists Finally Learned How a Tiny Mouse Survives Near the Andes Death Zone at 7,000 Meters

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Meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home is a rare solar system fragment

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New monkey species with orange lips found 'hiding' in DRC forest

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Medici family murder mystery may be solved after over 400 years with new DNA analysis

New DNA analysis has emerged as a potential breakthrough in determining the causes of death for members of the Medici family.

'Found you!' Astronomers spot faintest exoplanet ever seen from Earth after a decade of hide-and-seek

One small pen for one giant fee: Buzz Aldrin’s mission-saving felt-tip sells for over $850,000

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A sugar key to the origins of life has been discovered in interstellar space

Astronomers have detected a sugar molecule in interstellar space for the first time, offering new insights into the origins of life.

Mathematics formula found on Maya wall rivals insights of ancient masters

Cancer rates are expected to nearly double in the next 24 years

A T. rex found in South Dakota could smash auction records

Bats can catch and eat birds mid-flight. A painter may have known that 400 years before scientists

A 1611 Renaissance painting may have documented bats hunting birds mid-flight centuries before the behavior was scientifically discovered in 2025.

Brits' Plan in 1788 to Stop Smallpox May Have Backfired

New modeling suggests a British effort to stop smallpox in 1788 may have actually introduced the deadly disease to Australia.

Dimming the Sun Would Help Lower the Risks of El Niño. No, Really

100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis finds

Ancient Homo sapiens fossil found with face stab wound 100,000 years ago

Mysterious Spheres Found in Australia Are Likely Space Debris

Unlikely cave discovery suggests Neanderthals and humans shared a common culture

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Cosmic Conjoined Twins, Caught on Camera

New images from the Hayabusa-2 probe confirm that asteroid Torifune is a contact binary, a two-part structure resembling conjoined space rocks.

Gold rings around 2,000 years old found during dig at Thailand archaeological site

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A Jupiter-sized planet outlived its dying star, and NASA’s Webb has now read its atmosphere

Here’s How This ‘Hobbit’-Like Human Ancestor Survived on an Island with Komodo Dragons

Don't throw away your shot to speak to an AI Alexander Hamilton at Boston's new finance museum

Boston's new finance museum features an AI-generated Alexander Hamilton

For The First Time, Scientists Say They've Built a Synthetic Cell From Scratch

‘The greatest cosmic movie ever made’: Historic telescope kicks off an unprecedented survey

Scientists Just Found Something Very Disturbing About the AMOC Current Deep Below the Ocean: Evidence That Its Weakening Isn't Just a Fluke, and If It Collapses, the World Could Be Plunged Into Climate Catastrophe

Scientists are analyzing evidence that the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is not a fluke, signaling potential climate risks.

Scientists Stumble on Historic Discovery in Forgotten Drawer

Historic dinosaur fossil discovered in Antarctica after 40 years in storage

In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour — and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar spa

Ancient Human DNA Discovered Hidden Inside Paleolithic Cave Walls for the First Time

Organisms on 3I/ATLAS? Telltale methane signatures detected: Avi Loeb

Gangster or good guy? Why the lure of Robin Hood has captivated the world for centuries

Milky Way's Heart Shines Like a Diamond in Record-Breaking New Photos

Ancient proteins hint at all-female Homo naledi burial site in Rising Star cave system

Scientists have just unlocked the secrets of an ancient scroll torched by Mount Vesuvius

Scientists unlock secrets of ancient scrolls destroyed by Mount Vesuvius