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Whether Humans Are Closer to Cats or Dogs Depends on How You Ask
Cats and dogs together account for two-thirds of pet ownership worldwide — but when it…
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Apollo 12 Astronauts Spotted Unidentified Lights on the Moon and NASA Kept It Quiet
More than 55 years after two NASA astronauts stood on the surface of the moon, newly surfaced declassified images from…
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Medieval Studies Just Got Stranger — Researchers Are Now Studying Smells
More than 70 open-access medieval studies articles were published in April 2026 — and researchers…
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317 Skeletons Found Beneath a Shopping Center No One Suspected Was a Cemetery
Three hundred and seventeen human skeletons were found beneath a former department store in Gloucester,…
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Scientists Found a Black Hole Mass Range That Should Not Exist
What if a star could explode so completely that it leaves absolutely nothing behind —…
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Amsterdam Built a Material That Remembers Shapes With No Software at All
What if a material could learn — not through software, not through a central computer,…
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Physicists Found a Mesic Nucleus That May Reveal Where Mass Comes From
Why does anything have mass? It sounds like a philosophical question, but it sits at…
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What Radar Found Beneath the Great Pyramid Is Already Dividing Archaeologists
Somewhere beneath one of the most studied monuments on Earth, researchers say they may have…
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Think You Know Pregnancy Science? This Quiz Will Test That Confidence
Pregnancy begins before conception even occurs — technically, on the first day of the last…
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Medieval Peasants Shaped Society in Ways Most People Never Consider
For roughly a thousand years, the people who fed Europe, tended its fields, and built…
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World’s Longest Wild Python Found — and Its Record Comes With a Warning
A wild female reticulated python measuring 23 feet 8 inches — or 7.22 meters —…
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A Startup Is Burying a Nuclear Reactor 6,000 Feet Underground in Kansas
What if the safest place to put a nuclear reactor wasn’t behind reinforced concrete walls…
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Jumbo Recalls Frozen Green Beans After Customers Find Dead Mice Inside
Finding a dead mouse in a bag of frozen green beans is not something any…
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Tree Needles Caught Flashing UV Light During Storms And No One Can Explain It
During a single thunderstorm in Pembroke, North Carolina, researchers captured 859 ultraviolet flashes on one…
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NASA Spots a 50km Eye in the Sahara That Wind and Erosion Built
It looks like a giant eye staring back at you from space — a near-perfect…
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22 Blocks From the Lighthouse of Alexandria Just Emerged From the Sea
Twenty-two stone blocks — some weighing as much as 88 U.S. tons apiece — have…
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A Strange Green Coating on a Texas Sea Turtle Revealed a Deeper Crisis
A sea turtle washed ashore on Pirate’s Beach on Galveston Island, Texas, on March 7,…
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A 180-Million-Year-Old Rock in Morocco Has Scientists Rethinking Ancient Life
A rock face in Morocco’s Dadès Valley looks, at first glance, like crumpled leather —…
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The Maths Behind Finding a Message in a Bottle Will Surprise You
A 100-year-old message in a bottle, written by a World War One soldier who declared…
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The Vela Supercluster Was Hidden Behind Our Galaxy Until Now
Hidden behind the dense curtain of our own galaxy, one of the largest known structures…
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Two Young Planets Collided 11,000 Light-Years Away — And We Watched It Happen
Eleven thousand light-years away, two young worlds slammed into each other — and for the…
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Tiny Crabs in Colombia’s Mangroves Are Turning Microplastics Into Something Worse
A crab barely longer than your thumb is doing something scientists did not fully expect:…