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Scientists Uncover 6-Million-Year-Old Ice in Antarctica — And It’s Rewriting Earth’s Climate History
In a desolate corner of East Antarctica, where the wind howls over barren white ridges and the sun lingers low…
546,000 Heat Deaths a Year — and That’s Before the Real Warming Even Starts
The year 2024 was the hottest in recorded history. The ground cracked, forests burned, and the air shimmered with invisible…
45,000-Year-Old Bone Reveals Neanderthals Crossed Continents Before Vanishing
For decades, archaeologists have tried to reconstruct one of prehistory’s most consequential journeys — the eastward spread of Neanderthals from…
Webb Telescope Finds “Red Spider” in Space — and It’s the Fiery Death of a Sun-Like Star
High in the dark reaches of space, a star is dying beautifully. In the newest “Picture of the Month” from…
Scientists Detect Two “Impossible” Black Hole Collisions—And They’re Spinning the Wrong Way
In the silent fabric of the universe, there are moments so cataclysmic that they send ripples across the very structure…
New Radio Image Shows the Milky Way Like Never Before — You Won’t Believe What’s Hiding in the Galactic Plane
Our home galaxy is often imagined as a silent disk of stars glowing gently in the night. But seen through…
This Exoplanet Is So Hot It Tears Water Molecules Apart — New 3D Map Shows Where It Happens
Astronomers have crossed a psychological and scientific threshold: for the first time, they have turned an exoplanet from a vague,…
23-Million-Year-Old Rhino Fossil Found Near the North Pole
Twenty-three million years ago, near the top of what is now the world, in a place that modern humans consider…
Can Fat Help Hair Grow Back? New Study Reveals a Hidden Regeneration Circuit Beneath the Skin
Baldness has always been framed as a permanent loss: once hair disappears, it is gone for good. But science has…
Rapid Tooth Loss Could Be a Silent Death Warning, New Study Finds
We tend to think of losing teeth as an ordinary part of growing old — inconvenient, maybe embarrassing, but not…
Did a Common Psoriasis Drug Quietly Slash Long-Term Cancer Risk? New Danish Data Says Maybe
Cancer risk is the shadow that follows every long-term immune-modifying therapy. For people living with moderate to severe psoriasis, biologic…
Lack of Oxygen Leaves a Genetic Scar on Immunity, New Study Warns
Our lungs are not only gateways for air — they are gatekeepers for immunity. When oxygen runs low inside the…
First-Ever DNA “Self-Antibody” Shot Works in Humans, and Its Protection Lasted 72 Weeks
For years, medicine has fought viruses with a straightforward logic: if a patient doesn’t have enough protective antibodies, supply them…
James Webb Spots a Giant “Planet-Building Graveyard” Around a Tiny Star — and It Shouldn’t Be There
Not every discovery in astronomy is a new world or a blazing star. Some of the most revealing findings are…
Mysterious Sky Flashes From the 1950s Linked to Nuclear Tests, New Study Finds
Before satellites existed, before humans had filled low Earth orbit with debris and hardware, the night sky was far less…
Dark Matter Strikes Back: New Galaxy Study Deals Major Blow to Modified Gravity Theories
For decades, one of the most persistent riddles in astrophysics has been why galaxies—especially tiny, dim ones—rotate faster than they…
Astronomers Catch 30 “Blinking” Dead Stars in Real Time — And No One Knows Why They Flash
High above deserts and oceans, beyond the haze of human interference, the universe hums with signals too faint for the…
Not Dark Matter? Astronomers Stunned as Dwarf Galaxy Is Held Together by a Monster Black Hole
At first glance, Segue 1 hardly seems like something that should rewrite astronomy textbooks. It is faint, sparse, and fragile-looking…
Young Sun’s Violent Blasts Could Be the Reason We Exist, New Study Suggests
Every second, our sun boils and breathes. It hurls bright flares into space and sometimes throws colossal arcs of plasma…
Did Yellowstone’s Wolf Comeback Get Oversold? New Study Says the Iconic Story Doesn’t Hold Up
Few ecological stories have captured the public imagination like the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. For nearly three…
Fight-or-Flight Can Grow Arms? New Study Says Salamanders Regenerate Using Adrenaline
For centuries the salamander has been nature’s quiet provocation — a small, soft-bodied creature that can do something no human…