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Natural Selection Is Still Shaping Humans — And Redheads Are Proof
Nearly 500 genes in the DNA of West Eurasians have been shaped by natural selection…
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The Most Complete Map of the Cosmos Still Leaves Scientists Without Answers
Something doesn’t add up in our understanding of the universe — and the most thorough dataset ever assembled has just…
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Artemis II Looped the Moon and Most People Missed What Made It Historic
For the first time in more than 50 years, humanity sent people back to the…
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NASA Captured This Star Behaving Strangely — And No One Knows What Comes Next
A star roughly 1,540 times the size of our Sun — sitting 160,000 light-years away…
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Lobsters Feel Pain Says New Study And Scientists Want Boiling Banned
What if the creature you dropped into a pot of boiling water could actually feel…
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The Humanoid Robot That Makes Your Bed and Cooks Breakfast Is Here
What if the most dreaded part of your week — the cooking, the cleaning, the…
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Ancient Subduction Zones May Hold the Key to Finding Rare Earth Elements
The minerals powering your phone, your electric car, and the wind turbines generating clean energy…
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NASA Is Mining Meteorites in Orbit With a Lunchbox Full of Fungi
What if the future of space mining doesn’t involve massive drilling rigs, laser cutters, or…
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Lystrosaurus Laid Eggs to Survive — And a Fossil Embryo Just Proved It
A 250-million-year-old fossilized egg — curled-up embryo still inside — has just rewritten what scientists…
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Medieval People Ran Far More Than Historians Once Assumed
Did people in the Middle Ages actually run? It sounds like a strange question —…
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The Kindest People Around You May Be the Loneliest Ones
Think about the most dependable person in your life. The one who shows up, follows…
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What Scientists Found Beneath Africa Dwarfs Everest Entirely
Every time a massive earthquake strikes, our planet doesn’t just shake — it rings. Like…
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A Jurassic Fossil Cracked Open in Germany Was Not the Gold Everyone Thought
Crack open a slab of black shale in southwestern Germany, and something almost impossible catches…
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Thousands Have Already Ditched Toilet Paper and They’re Not Going Back
Bamboo toilet paper has been widely marketed as the eco-friendly alternative to conventional tissue —…
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Self-Healing Material Repairs Itself 1,000 Times — And Could Keep Aircraft Flying for Centuries
A material that can heal itself more than 1,000 times — not once, not a…
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Adults With No Close Friends Are Often Protecting Themselves, Not Avoiding People
Twelve percent of Americans said they had no close friends as of 2021 — four…
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Electric Cars Have a Heat Problem and the Battery Is Not to Blame
Most conversations about electric vehicles eventually circle back to the same concern: battery cost, battery…
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Physicists Clocked Darkness Moving Faster Than Light — And It Is Perfectly Legal
Something just moved faster than light — and physics didn’t break. That’s not a headline…
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NASA Radar Found a Cold War Base Buried Under Greenland’s Ice
A research aircraft flying over the Greenland Ice Sheet in April 2024 was supposed to…
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A Mini Lake Splitting Canada’s Ancient Glacier Rim Caught on Satellite
From nearly 700 kilometers above Earth, a NASA satellite captured something quietly extraordinary on September…
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Three Genes Switched On in Old Mice Brought Their Memory Back
An estimated 57 million people worldwide were living with dementia in 2021 — and that…
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What Stone Age Tombs in Scotland Reveal About How the Dead Were Buried
Thousands of years before written records, before kingdoms, before anything we’d recognize as organized society,…