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1 hour ago

Scientists Spot Two Planets That Collided, Resulting in Carnage That Will Send Prickles Through Your Scalp

Astronomers detected a planetary collision around star Gaia20ehk through unusual brightness fluctuations and infrared signatures consistent with massive debris and extreme heat from impact.
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5 hours ago

What Bugonia reveals about the real search for aliens

We don't have a really clear theoretical and experimental program to ask questions about the nature of life. Essentially, our working criteria are based exclusively on life on Earth. But across the vastness of the universe, life might present as radically different from what we've seen on our planet.
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6 hours ago

Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says they can

Colossal Biosciences is using ancient DNA and gene editing to resurrect extinct species including dire wolves, woolly mammoths, and dodos, raising questions about the ethics and feasibility of de-extinction technology.
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Colossal Biosciences breeds controversy while trying to revive mammoths

Colossal Biosciences uses gene-editing, cloning, and AI technologies to resurrect extinct species like woolly mammoths while developing tools to save endangered animals, though critics question the ethics and feasibility of de-extinction.
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Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says they can

Colossal Biosciences is using ancient DNA and gene editing to resurrect extinct species including dire wolves, woolly mammoths, and dodos, raising questions about the ethics and feasibility of de-extinction technology.
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Colossal Biosciences breeds controversy while trying to revive mammoths

Colossal Biosciences uses gene-editing, cloning, and AI technologies to resurrect extinct species like woolly mammoths while developing tools to save endangered animals, though critics question the ethics and feasibility of de-extinction.
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fromThe Washington Post
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What Earth's longest-lived animals can teach us about aging better

Studying exceptionally long-lived animals across the kingdom reveals genetic and biological mechanisms that could unlock human antiaging interventions and extend human lifespan.
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Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time

A core question we want to understand is where did matter come from. And then, if you know about antimatter, it's natural to ask, why is that not here? The process is not understood and we are hunting for clues as to why it happened, says Dr Christian Smorra, a physicist on the Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (Base) at Cern.
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Scientists Say Something Bizarre Is Hiding Inside Black Holes

Mathematicians and physicists propose that prime numbers could describe black hole interiors, offering a novel mathematical framework for understanding these cosmic mysteries.
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Earth's days are getting longer at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is to blame

Rising sea levels from climate change are slowing Earth's rotation, adding 1.33 milliseconds per century to day length at an unprecedented rate for at least 3.6 million years.
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You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

Pi is an infinitely long decimal number that never repeats. How do we know? Well, humans have calculated it to 314 trillion decimal places and didn't reach the end. At that point, I'm inclined to accept it. I mean, NASA uses only the first 15 decimal places for navigating spacecraft, and that's more than enough for earthly applications.
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We talked Hoppers science with a real-life beaver expert

Beaver researchers use drones, game cameras, and remote observation methods to study wild beavers, while robots and animal costumes remain largely fictional tools for scientific fieldwork.
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2 days ago

Ask Ethan: How dark will the Universe become?

The Universe will eventually become dark and sparse as stars exhaust their fuel and die, with approximately 95% of all stars already formed, allowing estimation of future cosmic dimming.
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Water vanished in California. Here's how one species saved itself.

Scarlet monkeyflowers rapidly evolved drought tolerance mutations during California's extreme 2012-2015 drought, demonstrating evolutionary rescue in wild populations facing climate change.
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2 days ago

How the classic computer game Doom became a tool for science

Last month, scientists in Australia reported that they had taught neurons grown on a silicon chip how to play the game. The phrases 'Can it run Doom?' and 'It runs Doom' have become a popular Internet meme.
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2 days ago

Katharine Burr Blodgett's brilliant legacy vanished from memory

Katharine Burr Blodgett's groundbreaking scientific contributions to surface chemistry and non-reflecting glass were gradually forgotten despite initial recognition, while her contemporary Irving Langmuir pursued questionable research yet maintained his legacy.
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Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum

A woman's nasal surgery revealed sheep bot fly larvae and a pupa, marking the first documented pupa discovery in human nasal passages, challenging previous assumptions about biological feasibility.
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Polymers with purpose: molecules can squirm free of the pack

Densely packed long molecular chains like chromosomes can move past neighboring molecules through crawling motion, according to computer simulations and theoretical modeling.
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3 days ago

The sun and thousands of its twins migrated across the Milky Way just in time

The sun migrated from the Milky Way's crowded center to its current outer position, accompanied by thousands of similar stars that unexpectedly crossed the galactic corotation barrier.
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3 days ago

Astronomers watch the birth of a magnetar for the first time

Astronomers observed the birth of a magnetar, an extremely dense neutron star with the universe's most powerful magnetic fields, through a superluminous supernova's unusual flickering light pattern over 200 days.
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2 days ago

This National Park Has the Longest-known Cave System in the World-With Over 400 Miles of Passages and a Frozen Waterfall

The park's namesake cave runs more than 400 miles under the earth's surface-and that's just the part that has been explored and mapped. Inside the aptly named Mammoth Cave, you'll find tube-like passageways, great rooms with sparkling walls, slot canyons, huge domes, and even a dripstone that resembles a frozen waterfall.
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King penguins are a rare species seemingly benefiting from climate change. Here's why | Fortune

King penguins are thriving by breeding 19 days earlier due to climate warming, achieving 40% higher breeding success rates unlike most species experiencing phenological mismatches.
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4 days ago

How federal cuts are reshaping Alaska's communities, research and species management - High Country News

Two USGS research biologists with 50+ years combined experience resigned in April 2025 due to the Trump administration's assault on federal science and hostile conditions at federal agencies.
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Earth's "Missing" Billion Years: Study Links the Great Unconformity to Early Tectonics

Tectonic forces from early supercontinent formation, rather than Snowball Earth glaciation, caused the Great Unconformity, a billion-year gap in Earth's geologic record.
fromNature
4 days ago

This supernova is too bright - now astronomers might know why

Superluminous supervnovae are 10 to 100 times brighter than expected, and while different theories exist, no-one is quite sure how that's possible. Now the wobbling signal from one of these super bright explosions has provided a possible answer.
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4 days ago

Where did magic mushrooms come from? Scientists just got closer to an answer

Scientists discovered Psilocybe ochraceocentrata, a new magic mushroom species in Africa that shared a common ancestor with Psilocybe cubensis approximately 1.5 million years ago.
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4 days ago

See Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupt with lava fountains shooting 1,300 feet into the air

The eruption generated significant heat and ash, USGS said, with some six inches of tephrabits of volcanic material, ranging from glasslike particles to rocks and ashaccumulating on a nearby golf course. Some glassy material, called Pele's hair for its strandlike structure, traveled as far as the city of Hilosome 30 miles away by car, USGS said.
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5 days ago

Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?

Ocean alkalinity enhancement uses alkaline chemicals to increase the ocean's natural carbon storage capacity, potentially combating climate change and ocean acidification simultaneously.
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fromNature
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'Virtual cell' captures most-basic process of life: bacterial division

Researchers successfully simulated nearly every chemical reaction in a minimal bacterial cell, including DNA replication and cell division.
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Could flies sniff out contraband chemicals?

Mutant insects could potentially detect narcotics and explosives, while ash seeds employ a screw propeller mechanism for dispersal.
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Live parrots were carried across the Andes before the Incas' rise

Ancient Ychsma culture in Peru imported live parrots from the Amazon across the Andes mountains, hundreds of kilometers away, as evidenced by ancient DNA analysis of feathers.
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How Pele's hair' sprouts from erupting lava

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele's hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest.
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6 days ago

Will Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Shock Humanity?

President Trump's 2026 directive to release government UAP files could fundamentally challenge human worldviews if they confirm nonhuman intelligence, triggering psychological responses ranging from curiosity to existential distress.
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6 days ago

Don't Expect Big Surprises in the Government's Alien Files

Government UAP file releases likely won't satisfy public skepticism due to deep distrust, and historical precedent suggests files will contain unexplained sightings with no evidence of extraterrestrial origin.
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Chimps' taste for fermented fruit hints at origins of human love of alcohol

Chimpanzees consume alcohol from fermenting fruit, suggesting humans' attraction to alcohol evolved from ancestral primates associating fermented fruit's scent with calorie-dense food sources.
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6 days ago

NASA's asteroid defence mission slowed targets just a bit

The momentum enhancement factor for DART's impact was about two, meaning that the debris loss doubled the punch created by the spacecraft alone. The new study shows the impact ejected so much material from the binary system that it also changed the binary's orbital period around the Sun by 0.15 seconds.
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6 days ago

Scientists solve the mystery of why cats always land on their feet

Cats' ability to land on their feet results from an exceptionally flexible thoracic spine that rotates nearly three times more than their lumbar spine, enabling rapid mid-air body reorientation.
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Sea fossils atop world's mountains fuel claims of Noah's Great Flood

Marine fossils have been discovered on mountain ranges around the world, including the Himalayas, Andes and Rocky Mountains, which scientists say were once covered by ancient seas before being pushed upward as continents collided and mountains formed.
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6 days ago

How fast does a protein fold? Real-time technique captures the moment

Direct measurements reveal proteins fold independently of sequence or size, and more efficiently than DNA despite greater structural complexity.
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fromMail Online
5 days ago

Scientists recreate the lost languages of ancient humans

Scientists reconstructed ancient human species languages by analyzing fossilized skeletal imprints of soft tissues like the larynx, tongue, and brain, revealing that Neanderthals likely spoke languages understandable to early Homo sapiens.
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Epstein used his ties to Nobel laureate scientists to try to rebuild his image

Jeffrey Epstein funded scientific conferences and built relationships with prominent physicists through philanthropy, including a 2006 gathering in the Virgin Islands that featured Nobel laureates and leading researchers.
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fromBig Think
6 days ago

JWST peers inside a dying star's "exposed cranium"

JWST's multi-wavelength imaging of the Exposed Cranium Nebula reveals a star's uncertain fate: either a Wolf-Rayet star destined for supernova or a star evolving toward white dwarf formation.
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5 days ago

RFK, Jr.'s overhauled autism advisory board cancels first public meeting

The federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee cancelled its March 19 public meeting after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauled membership with vaccine skeptics, prompting an independent rival group to schedule a competing meeting.
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6 days ago

28 Years Later, Star Trek Just Rebooted A Wild Doomsday Weapon

Starfleet Academy has brought back a deadly substance 28 years after it was first introduced in canon, and, within the series timeline, over 800 years after Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) grappled with this stuff in the Delta Quadrant.
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1 week ago

Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization

Alvarezsaurid miniaturization preceded dietary specialization on ants, challenging the theory that small body size evolved directly coupled to insectivory.
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NH cold case solved 40 years after police found man's skull in woods

Warren Kuchinsky, whose skull was discovered in New Hampshire woods in 1986, was identified after nearly four decades using forensic genetic genealogy techniques.
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1 week ago

Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to Planet While Clinging to Asteroids

Extremophile bacteria can survive extreme pressures simulating asteroid impacts, supporting the possibility that microorganisms could travel between planets via panspermia.
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Country diary: Our patch of snowdrops is part of the family | Mark Cocker

My mother first planted those same bulbs (or their parents) in her garden, which is half a mile from here, in the 1970s. When she died a decade ago, I took them first to our old house and now to this property. I'd actually forgotten the last transfer: a scoop of both the bulbs and surrounding soil, a short car journey, then a hasty reinterment in a hole on this south-facing slope.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

Notorious asteroid 2024 YR4 won't crash into the moon after all

Soon after it was spotted in December 2024, worldwide telescopic observations quickly positioned it as the most dangerous space rock ever discovered—one that stood a 3.1-percent (or 1-in-32) chance of crashing into Earth on December 22, 2032. If it were to hit one of the cities potentially in its path, this 60-meter asteroid would have unleashed a force comparable to several atomic bombs, devastating the unfortunate metropolis.
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1 week ago

I Battled the Ice to Retrace Douglas Mawson's Adventure to East Antarctica

The Douglas Mawson, a Polar Class 6 icebreaker ship, encountered impassable pack ice near Antarctica and was forced to retreat to avoid becoming trapped by compacting ice driven by 64-knot winds.
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fromGameSpot
1 week ago

The Search For The One Piece Has Turned Into A Real-World Quest

Manga creator Eiichiro Oda sealed the secret to One Piece in a capsule at the ocean floor 651 meters deep to celebrate 600 million sales worldwide, sparking global treasure-hunting efforts.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

No, particle physics colliders cannot ever destroy the Universe

Particle physics experiments at higher energies reveal fundamental Universe mysteries while carrying theoretical risks, but current and planned accelerators pose no actual danger to Earth.
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Hubble Spots Bizarre Galaxy That Appears to Be 99.9 Percent Dark Matter

Astronomers discovered galaxy CDG-2, composed of at least 99.9 percent dark matter, representing one of the most dark matter-dominated galaxies ever found and a candidate for theoretical dark galaxies.
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1 week ago

Scientists find origin of 3 strange signals from heart of Milky Way

Excited dark matter explains mysterious energy signals emanating from the Milky Way's center that conventional astrophysical events cannot account for.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

Did Hubble's new "dark galaxy" kill modified gravity?

Dark matter, an undetected particle form distinct from Standard Model particles, dominates the Universe's matter content and is essential for explaining cosmic structures, though recent discoveries like CDG-2 present new puzzles about satellite galaxy formation and dark matter's nature.
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1 week ago
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Daily briefing: Galileo's notes discovered in the margins of an ancient book

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Daily briefing: Galileo's notes discovered in the margins of an ancient book

Tectonic plates moved 3.3 billion years ago with higher oxygen levels; Galileo's annotations discovered in 400-year-old Ptolemy text; rotator cuff degeneration common in older adults regardless of symptoms.
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1 week ago

Earth's oldest crystals suggest an early start for plate tectonics

Ancient Australian zircon crystals reveal early Earth had more oxygen and water than expected, with tectonic plate movement occurring at least 3.3 billion years ago, suggesting conditions more favorable for life than previously believed.
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Blast off! Martian microbes might travel between worlds on asteroid-impact debris

Deinococcus radiodurans, an extremophile bacterium, can survive extreme pressures from asteroid impacts on Mars, suggesting potential for microbial life dispersal across the solar system.
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1 week ago

Newly discovered ripples in spacetime put Einstein's general relativity to the test

When black holes collide, the crash generates ripples in the fabric of spacetime—gravitational waves. These distortions travel far out into the universe, but by the time they reach Earth, they have become faint, making them extremely hard to detect. Thanks to a global network of observatories—called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), Virgo and the Kamioka Gravitational-Wave Detector (KAGRA)—scientists have found scores of these tiny wobbles in spacetime.
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1 week ago

Acidic geyser erupts at Yellowstone - fears supervolcano could be next

Echinus Geyser, the world's largest acidic geyser at Yellowstone, has resumed erupting after remaining dormant since 2020, with activity beginning in February.
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Acidic geyser erupts at Yellowstone - fears supervolcano could be next

Echinus Geyser, the world's largest acidic geyser at Yellowstone, has resumed erupting after remaining dormant since 2020, with activity beginning in February.
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"A Trippy, Psychedelic Musical Odyssey": Josef Gatti on Phenomena

Australian filmmaker Josef Gatti's feature debut captures the visual beauty of molecular and subatomic reactions through scientific experiments, revealing the universe's wonders accessible on Earth through high-tech cinematography and fundamental physics principles.
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Koalas show how species can bounce back from genetic dead ends

Koala populations demonstrate that genetic bottlenecks don't necessarily lead to extinction, with some species recovering surprising amounts of genetic diversity after population collapses.
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1 week ago

Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7

Scientists and advocates are organizing nationwide Stand Up for Science demonstrations on March 7 to oppose politicization of science, funding cuts, and policy rollbacks under the Trump administration.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

Can the Drake equation's final term predict humanity's demise?

Despite discovering thousands of exoplanets, no extraterrestrial life has been detected, and recent research suggests technologically advanced civilizations may survive less than 5,000 years.
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NASA unveils dazzling new images of the Cat's Eye Nebula'

Hubble and Euclid space telescopes captured unprecedented detail of the Cat's Eye Nebula, revealing complex structures including concentric shells and gas jets from a dying star system.
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Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space

Gen. Stephen Whiting states Space Command has found no extraterrestrial objects in space, only man-made and natural objects, though he remains open to investigating UAP data if directed.
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1 week ago

Fresh claim of making elusive 'hexagonal' diamond is the strongest yet

Chinese researchers have successfully synthesized hexagonal diamond in a laboratory, a material predicted to be over 50% harder than conventional diamond with applications in cutting tools, thermal management, and quantum sensing.
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Boy at center of California hazmat probe: I'm just a kid trying to go home'

In a calm, thoughtful voice, he explained that though the equipment in his home lab was simple—including items such as a hot plate, scales and standard glassware found in a school science classroom—the experiment itself was more advanced. Fritz said the work focused on molecular structures used in pharmaceuticals and how they might be adapted to improve treatments for various diseases.
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WATCH: National Geographic's 'Secrets of the Bees' trailer from executive producer James Cameron

For its fifth anniversary, 'Secrets of' turns its lens to one of Earth's smallest yet most vital heroes: bees. Far more than pollinators, bees are socially complex, fast-thinking individuals and the most important insects on our planet. Their impact on the natural world and humanity is immeasurable, and we're only just beginning to see how extraordinary they truly are.
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TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the first new reactor construction in nearly a decade for TerraPower's sodium-cooled Natrium reactor in Wyoming, featuring innovative cooling and integrated energy storage technology.
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Which Chimp Should Wield The Crystal? | Defector

After washing and displaying them, I invited my colleagues to observe them. One colleague seemed very angry after examining them, picked up a piece straight away, hit it hard on the other stone fragments, and exclaimed, 'These kinds of broken stones can be seen everywhere on the road!' But later that fall, the French archaeologist Henri Breuil examined the crystals and agreed with Wenzhong: The crystals were not just stones, but artifacts collected by the early humans who lived in the cave.
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1 week ago

This may be the oldest butthole' imprint on Earth

Scientists discovered Earth's oldest known cloaca imprint from a 299-million-year-old fossilized animal in central Germany, providing rare insight into ancient reptile anatomy.
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1 week ago

See raining iguanas and coral from the inside out - February's best science images

Underwater photography reveals coral's internal architecture, space telescopes discover new galaxies using AI, Italian town faces cliff collapse from landslide, and endangered snail species returns to native habitat.
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Why 'quantum proteins' could be the next big thing in biology

Fluorescent proteins from crystal jellyfish are being transformed into quantum bits to create highly sensitive quantum sensors for biological applications.
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Rare footage captures a 'glass' animal deep in Monterey Bay

We've documented sightings of glass squids to better understand the remarkable transformations they undergo from hatchlings to adults. This new observation, captured in ultra high-resolution 4K, allowed us to zoom in on a juvenile likely no bigger than a baby carrot and reveal more details than we have been able to see before.
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HP is mining its own e-waste to build its latest laptops

HP partners with Mint Innovation to create a closed-loop recycling system, recovering pure copper from old HP devices using biosorption technology instead of traditional energy-intensive smelting.
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From the first telephone to videoconferencing in 100 years

Scientists of the 1970s look to the past and future of telecommunications, and a rainbow against a blue sky dazzles a reader, in this week's peek at Nature's archive. This article features text from Nature's archive. By its historical nature, the archive includes some images, articles and language that by twenty-first-century standards are offensive and harmful.
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29 Years Later, Star Trek Showrunner Reveals Why One Legacy Character Returned

In the case of Robert Picardo, we were children when he was playing the Doctor on Voyager. So, you think to yourself, if we're going to get this actor to say yes, to come and give up years of their lives, put back on a uniform, we have to give them something good to sink their teeth into.
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1 week ago

Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed

Scientists revived Edison's nickel-iron battery design using protein scaffolding and graphene oxide, creating an aerogel structure for improved renewable energy storage with extended range and longevity.
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2 weeks ago

Daily briefing: This Utah family line might be evidence of 'selfish genes' in humans

Researchers identified a Utah family with seven generations showing twice as many boys as girls, providing first clear evidence of sex-ratio distorting genes in humans.
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1 week ago

I love midges because I know what their hearts look like': is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?

When Borkent stops working, biting midges risk becoming an orphan group, a term that taxonomists give for a branch of the web of life that is no longer being studied. It is a pattern playing out across the field, he says. I am one of the last few standing. It's crisis all around. As the taxonomic community ages, we are not being replaced.
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I hacked NASA's systems... and uncovered a decades-old UFO cover-up

British hacker Gary McKinnon claims he discovered a cigar-shaped UFO image and a 'non-terrestrial officers' spreadsheet while breaching NASA systems in 2002, searching for suppressed energy technology.
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Antarctica has lost 8x the size of London in ice over last 30 years

Antarctica lost 5,000 square miles of grounded ice over 30 years, with 77% of the ice sheet remaining stable while Western Antarctica experienced rapid, concentrated ice loss.
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Rare blood moon' total lunar eclipse to loom over North America, Australia and New Zealand

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth lines up between the moon and the sun. The sun's light is blocked casting a shadow on to the moon. But in some eclipses sunlight does reach the moon indirectly, daubing the moon in a sunset palette. Any light that does pass shines through our atmosphere and transforms the lunar surface into a deep, coppery red.
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Face of ancient human ancestor Little Foot' reconstructed for the first time

Little Foot, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton ever found, now has a reconstructed face showing large eye sockets and resemblance to other Australopithecus fossils from Africa.
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Triceratops skeleton 'Trey' is up for auction as dinosaur market hits record highs

A triceratops skeleton named Trey, displayed in a Wyoming museum for decades, will be auctioned with a $4.5-5.5 million estimate as dinosaur fossils become increasingly popular investments.
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James Webb Takes Long, Hard Look Inside Uranus

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals unprecedented three-dimensional details of Uranus's upper atmosphere, showing how its ionosphere interacts with its unusually tilted magnetic field and where auroras form.
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2 weeks ago

NASA Spots Sun-like Star Inflating Massive Bubble

Astronomers detected the first astrosphere around a Sun-like star using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, revealing how stellar winds create protective bubbles similar to our Sun's heliosphere.
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Evidence Grows That One of the Largest Known Stars Is Poised to Explode in a Spectacular Blast

WOH G64, one of the largest known stars, is undergoing dramatic transformation and may soon explode as a supernova or collapse into a black hole.
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2 weeks ago

The strange animals that control their body heat

Because we're homeotherms, we assume all mammals work the way we do. But in recent years, as improvements in technology allowed researchers to more easily track small animals and their metabolisms in the wild, we're starting to find a lot more weirdness.
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2 weeks ago

Astronomers Spot Huge Microwave Laser Blasting Into Space

This system is truly extraordinary. We're seeing the radio equivalent of a laser halfway across the universe. Fundamentally, masers and lasers are focused beams of light in the same frequency. In the realm of astrophysics, these can arise from clouds of dust being excited into a higher energy state from the light emitted by other sources, like stars and black holes.
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fromTravel + Leisure
2 weeks ago

March Has 9 Night Sky Wonders-Including the Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2028, Zodiacal Light, and a 'Planet Parade'

A rare planetary lineup from late February will continue into early March, with six planets-Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune-appearing to trace the same path across the sky, known as the ecliptic. Because Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune set soon after sunset, you'll need to look shortly after twilight to see all six at once.
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1 week ago

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

Cortical Labs taught living human brain cells to play the complex 3D video game Doom, advancing biological computing capabilities beyond their previous Pong achievement.
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2 weeks ago

Mysterious UFO hotspots uncovered around underwater canyons

Analysis of 80,000 UFO reports reveals concentrated sighting clusters near underwater canyons on the US West Coast, supporting the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis of non-human intelligence operating beneath Earth's oceans.
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2 weeks ago

Wait-Laser Guns Are Real Now?

Laser weapons are transitioning from science fiction to operational military reality, with Ukraine, the U.S. military, and Border Patrol actively deploying laser systems in combat and border operations.
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

Mysterious triangle in Nevada desert fuels lost civilization theories

The formation closely matches the outline of the Buffalo Valley Intermediate Field, an emergency triangular airfield built in the 1930s to 1940s along early aviation routes. In Nevada and other Western US deserts, triangular airfields were common in the 1930s and 1940s, serving early aviation needs such as mail routes and emergency landings.
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2 weeks ago

Science and the Art of Paying Attention

Paying close attention to ordinary experiences reveals that familiar aspects of life are more variable and scientifically interesting than commonly assumed.
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2 weeks ago

Former UFO chief admits seeing spacecraft that defy modern technology

Pentagon's UFO office detected unexplained objects in space performing maneuvers beyond known US aerospace capabilities, with fewer than 50 cases remaining unresolved despite expert analysis.
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2 weeks ago

Mysterious Chinese Space Plane Conducting Unknown Mission in Orbit

The U.S. Air Force's X-37B and China's Shendong space planes conduct secretive orbital missions with unclear military and space capabilities, both demonstrating advanced reusable spacecraft technology.
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