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The Tiny Lizards That Survived the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

Examples of fossil lower beaks of squids from the Late Cretaceous discovered in this study. Scalebar: 1mm. Credit: Ikegami et al., Science, June 26, 2025

Squids Ruled the Seas Long Before Dinosaurs Disappeared

Holotype of P. ironomyiae sp. nov. (NIGP203272) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (~99 million years ago) and the comparison with extant Ophiocordyceps fungi. Credit: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0407

Ancient Fungi Turned Insects into Zombies 133 Million Years Ago

Magnetic Weber bar concept: Gravitational waves deform the magnet, creating oscillating magnetic fields detected by the pickup loop and SQUID. Credit: Sebastian Ellis

Superconducting Magnets Could Unlock a Hidden Universe of Gravitational Waves

Figurine from Ulucak Höyük in West Anatolia. Credit: Ulucak Höyük Excavation Archive

Ancient DNA Reveals How Farming Spread Across Anatolia in Surprising Ways

MS1 fossil. Credit: H. Berghuis

Ancient Human Fossils Discovered Beneath the Java Sea

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The Dark Side of Perfectionism

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What Your Mind Does When You Daydream

How the Brain Learns to Be Resilient

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Why We Feel Empty — Even When Life Looks Full

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The Psychology of Hope: Why It Matters More Than You Think

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How the Brain Processes Grief Over Time

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Why We Fear Vulnerability — But Crave Connection

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The Neuroscience of Confidence (and How to Build It)

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How Social Media Is Rewiring Our Minds

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What Drives Obsession — And When It Turns Dangerous

The newborns from the West Mound at Çatalhöyük were buried between 5900 and 5800 BCE—laid on their stomachs with their head and legs turned to the left. The well-preserved skeleton was dug up by Jana Anvari in 2009. Eva Rosenstock and Peter F. Biehl led the excavations. Both skeletons were subjected to osteological analysis by Jennifer Byrnes. Credit: Çatalhöyük Research Project/Peter F. Biehl

New Genetic Evidence Shows Women Held Power in a 9000-Year-Old Society

Artist's illustration of Sedna. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Scientists Plan Bold Journey to a Frozen World Beyond Pluto

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New Study Reveals Consciousness Might Begin in the Thalamus

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Anxious Minds Can Still Look Away from Threat When It Matters Most

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What Out-of-Body Experiences Reveal About the Human Mind

Artist's conception of the spiral structure of the Milky Way showing Baade's general population categories. The blue regions in the spiral arms are composed of the younger population I stars, while the yellow stars in the central bulge are the older population II stars. In reality, many population I stars are also found mixed in with the older population II stars. Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R

Astronomers Get Closer to Finding the Universe’s First Stars

Stacked Bayesian GLS periodograms of the three noteworthy signals with periods around 0.95 d, 1.83 d and 22.49 d, detected in the residuals of the RVs after the planetary signal is removed. Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453381

Tiny Stars Are Teeming with Earth-Like Planets According to New Study

This artist’s impression shows a possible seed for the formation of a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESA/Hubble

Astronomers May Have Found a Way to Watch Supermassive Black Holes Being Born

An antenna sticks out like whiskers from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in this artist’s concept of the spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2006. This antenna is part of SHARAD, a radar that peers below the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Mars Orbiter Flips Upside Down to Reveal Hidden Ice Beneath the Surface

This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever detected—and blue wisps trace the hot gas glowing in X-rays. Credit: Chandra X-ray Center (X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Radio: ASTRON/LOFAR; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk)

Astronomers Detect Ancient Radio Glow from a Galaxy Cluster Ten Billion Light Years Away

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The Psychology of Belonging: Why We Need to Feel Seen

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How the Brain Balances Logic and Emotion

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Why We Hold Onto the Past — Even When It Hurts

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The Power of Belief: How Thoughts Physically Shape the Brain