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Astronomers Find a Rocky Planet Where a Gas Giant Should Be
Everything you learned about how solar systems form — rocky worlds close in, gas giants…
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Earth’s Green Pole Has Been Drifting Northeast Faster Than Scientists Predicted
Earth’s green center of mass has been quietly drifting toward the northeast for decades — and since 2010, that drift…
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What the Artemis Missions Could Change About How We See the Moon
For the first time in more than 50 years, human beings are preparing to travel…
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A 5,000-Year-Old Bacterium Woke Up in Romania Already Resistant to Our Drugs
A bacterium frozen in Romanian cave ice for roughly 5,000 years has just been revived…
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Red Blood Cells May Hold the Key to Lower Diabetes Rates at Altitude
People living at high altitudes have measurably lower rates of diabetes — and for years,…
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Trees Across the US Are Flickering With Electricity and Silently Burning
For nearly a century, scientists suspected something strange was happening in the treetops during thunderstorms…
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Antarctica’s Melting Ice Is Uncovering a Vast Underground Fortune
Beneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheets lies something that could reshape global geopolitics for centuries to…
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Total Solar Eclipses Have an Expiry Date and the Moon Is to Blame
Every year, without anyone noticing, the Moon quietly moves a little farther away from Earth…
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What DNA Found Inside the Shroud of Turin Actually Reveals
A linen cloth venerated by millions as the burial shroud of Jesus Christ may have…
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Medieval Chess and Polo Once United Cultures — This Exhibition Shows How
“`html More than 100 objects — including rare medieval artefacts spanning centuries and continents —…
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Neanderthals May Never Have Vanished — They Simply Became Us
What if Neanderthals never actually went extinct — and instead, they simply dissolved into us?…
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Space-Trained Viruses Are Now Killing the Superbugs Antibiotics Cannot Touch
What if the answer to one of medicine’s most urgent crises was floating 250 miles…
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NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Samples Just Rewrote Where Life’s Building Blocks Came From
What if the building blocks of life didn’t originate in a warm, sunlit pond on…
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Think You Know Octopuses? This Quiz Tests Your Cephalopod Knowledge
Imagine an animal with three hearts, blue blood, and the ability to change the color…
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A Gamma-Ray Burst Lasted 7 Hours and Astronomers Are Rethinking Stellar Death
A cosmic explosion detected in July 2025 lasted for roughly 25,000 seconds — nearly seven…
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Mice With Diabetes Were Cured — And That’s Just One Story This Week
Three stories broke through the noise of a busy week in science — and each…
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What a Veteran Space Reporter Felt Watching NASA That Words Almost Miss
Nearly 100 rocket launches over nearly five decades — and yet, nothing quite prepared veteran…
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Mercury Was Called a Dead Planet — NASA Just Found Evidence Against It
For decades, Mercury was written off as a geological corpse — a scorched, airless rock…
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Why Having Allergic Parents Does Not Guarantee You Will Have Them
More than 100 million people in the United States — that’s over 30% of all…
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Scientists Pulled the Deepest Mantle Core Ever From Beneath the Atlantic
More than 4,100 feet below the seafloor of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have pulled up…
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Crows Beat Monkeys at a Test Scientists Thought Only Humans Could Pass
When researchers at the University of Tübingen sat two carrion crows in front of touchscreens…
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Astronomers Find Strongest Evidence Yet of a Giant Volcanic Cave on Venus
Beneath the scorched surface of Venus, scientists have found something that changes what we thought…