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Pacific reefs once supported 20 times more sharks than Caribbean reefs in Panama

Ancient Wyoming forests opened up as heat and drying stressed trees 56 million years ago

Gluon production drops sharply when ALICE probes regions one-quarter the size of a proton

Millicharged particles could slip through a Faraday cage and leave an electric signal behind

Europe’s hyaenodonts did not disappear when rival predators expanded—they survived for millions of years

Bronze Age Greeks wore rings made from iron that fell from the sky

Tungsten may suffer more radiation damage than expected at extreme energies

Nearly all of the shackled men in ancient Greek mass graves grew up locally

The first Papuan-related migrants reached Fiji nearly 2,000 years ago

A black hole 660 million years after the Big Bang is buried in an extraordinary cocoon of dense gas

Dark photons may barely heat the early universe after all

GLP-1 drugs show potential health benefits beyond weight loss

Cygnus X-3 may be powering the Milky Way’s giant PeV gamma-ray bubble

Blood mixed with lime may have helped ancient Chinese rock art survive for 2,000 years

47.8-Jupiter-mass brown dwarf sits in the middle of the brown dwarf desert

Chiniquodon gave birth to live young 236 million years ago, fossil bones suggest

Dust and water are surviving remarkably close to the Milky Way’s central black hole

Older star clusters were born with heavier characteristic stars than younger ones

Neanderthals used overlooked bone fragments as hammers, wedges and tools for working hides and plants

A 5.6-trillion-pixel map puts nearly 4 billion stars and galaxies on one digital sky

The 5,300-year-old Iceman is not as frozen in time as he seems

This strange curved galaxy sits almost exactly where a cluster’s gravity should create a cosmic arc

Dark matter may turn into gravitons that become light across the cosmic web

A white dwarf heavier than the Sun may have an oxygen-neon heart hidden beneath its surface

Vision, not the frontal lobe, drove the biggest expansion of the primate brain

Massive elliptical galaxies may still carry the spin imprint of gravity from the universe’s infancy

Lifetime experience may help people handle almost any emotion, but calming sadness and disgust appears to depend much more on mental agility

Light passing a magnetar may finally expose the strange quantum behavior hidden inside empty space

Long-overlooked museum fossils uncovered an extinct toad that disappeared as Southern California’s climate changed

A black hole’s brightest outburst ended with a powerful cool wind that may have carried away as much matter as the black hole could swallow