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For the first time, researchers see a quantum jump in sound as it happens

Microscopic black holes at the LHC remain elusive—but their possible mass is now constrained to 9–11.4 TeV

The Moon’s newest crater disturbed the surface more than 120 kilometers away

A giant planet’s transits are shifting toward the edge of its star and may vanish by 2033

Huge impacts may shatter icy moons, but their underground oceans can survive for billions of years

A giant planet is growing inside a narrow gap around a star less than 1 million years old

This spiral galaxy’s center rotates at a right angle to its outer disk

The solar system’s first planetesimals were mostly built from heat-forged rock droplets

The human brain may have formed by joining two ancient nervous systems

Inside a brittle carbonized scroll, X-rays recovered hidden words without opening it

Delayed collapse lets a young cosmic halo grow a million-solar-mass black hole seed

One fossil species may make some of the oldest dinosaur relatives younger than thought

47 faint dwarf galaxy candidates emerge where only four were known before

One stellar stream may be the remains of a disrupted dwarf galaxy

Grass leaves, stems and flowers were deliberately carried deep into an Australian cave and burned

SIMP 0136’s changing spectrum can be traced to two atmospheric patterns as it spins every 2.4 hours

RhoBAST’s fluorescent signal begins with one RNA nucleotide flipping out to make room for a dye

Superfluid helium produces a tightly directed muonium beam at 2,180 meters per second

The hotter people preferred their tea or coffee, the higher their esophageal cancer risk

Ancient teeth show Lebanon stayed wooded for at least 300,000 years

The woolly rhinoceros kept more of its genetic diversity in temperate Eurasia than in the Ice Age north

Diplodocus fossils in Spain extend the dinosaur’s known range beyond North America

The biggest Devonian fish had a jaw built to fracture prey beyond its mouth’s reach

The same 1,5-diene can form either a bridged or fused bicyclic structure, depending on its nitrogen group

Archosauromorphs exploded into new species after the end-Permian extinction, then their speciation steadily slowed

Astronomers are closing in on the helium made in the universe’s first minutes

Four 1-meter footprints from 66.5 million years ago may be the first trackway left by an adult T. rex

This half-billion-year-old Charnia frond was buried in a sediment flow instead of flattened on the seafloor

The Southern Ocean can keep releasing CO₂ even after atmospheric CO₂ falls

The slope of an ancient volcanic blanket puts a limit on how fast the Andes rose