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NASA Turned Moon Dust Into Oxygen and It Changes Everything About Living There
Lunar soil contains roughly 45% oxygen by mass — but none of it is breathable.…
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Chimpanzees in Uganda Are Caught in a Deadly Conflict No One Saw Coming
Something extraordinarily rare is unfolding in the forests of Uganda — and it looks disturbingly familiar. A community of wild…
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James Webb Telescope Reveals Something Unexpected Inside a Galaxy System
Deep in the early universe, when the cosmos was barely 1.1 billion years old, the…
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What an 11th-Century Handbook Reveals About Medieval Magical Beliefs
A German bishop sitting down in the early 11th century to catalog the sins of…
Environment
Panama Canal Tunnel Lost the Vote But the Idea Refuses to Die
What if you could walk or bike across one of the most strategically important waterways…
Environment
China’s CH-7 Stealth Drone Just Flew — And 925 km/h Is Only Part of the Story
A drone capable of flying at nearly 926 kilometers per hour — faster than most…
Science
Comet MAPS Flew Within 100,000 Miles of the Sun and Did Not Survive
A comet that had astronomers buzzing with excitement — one many believed could become bright…
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Lab-Grown Mini-Brains Learned a Complex Task in 45 Minutes and Changed Everything
A cluster of lab-grown mouse neurons — no body, no senses, no lived experience —…
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New Encryption Built for Today’s Hardware Is Already Blocking Tomorrow’s Quantum Threats
The encryption protecting your videos, messages, and sensitive files could one day be cracked in…
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Byzantine Court Ritual Was Designed to Make Power Look Inevitable
Imagine walking into the most powerful court in the medieval world and getting everything wrong…
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A 16th-Century Silver Coin Just Revealed Where a Doomed Spanish Colony Stood
A small silver coin, buried in the soil of southern Chile for more than four…
Science
Keratin Has Long Been Tied to Skin Disease — Now We May Know Why
The proteins that form your skin, hair, and nails may be doing far more than…
Environment
The Supercontinent Forming Again Could Make Earth Hostile to Humans
In roughly 200 to 250 million years, Earth’s scattered continents are expected to merge again…
Science
A New Comet Could Appear in the Predawn Sky After April 13
A new comet is brightening in the night sky right now, and skywatchers are watching…
Environment
Beneath the Atlantic Lies a Fresh Water Sea That Could Outlast Civilizations
Beneath the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of New England, scientists have…
Environment
That Giant Ball of Light Over Victoria Was Not a Meteor After All
Just before sunrise on a Monday morning, people across Victoria looked up and saw something…
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Richard Feynman Said a Pinhead Could Hold All Human Knowledge — And He Was Right
What if the entire contents of an encyclopedia — every entry, every map, every illustration…
Environment
A 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil Just Settled How Bird Flight Began
For more than 160 years, scientists have argued about one of the most fundamental questions…
Science
A Woman in Greece Was Diagnosed With Something Doctors Rarely See
A 58-year-old woman working outdoors on a Greek island began sneezing live worms out of…
Science
A UN Water Expert Says Every Continent Is Already Running Dry
Continents are losing enough fresh water every year to meet the needs of 280 million…
Environment
One Nasal Vaccine Could Soon Replace Every Seasonal Virus Shot You Take
What if a single nasal spray could protect you from the flu, a bacterial chest…
Environment
Giant Structures Deep Inside Earth May Be Shielding the Magnetic Field
About 1,800 miles beneath your feet, two continent-sized blobs of unusually hot rock are quietly…