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On the stone faces of southern Africa, figures bend, circle, clap, and transform. They are frozen in pigment, yet somehow…
The 4000 Year Old Medical Mystery of Why Ear Aches Were Considered Spiritual Alarms
Imagine being sick in ancient Mesopotamia. Your ear aches, your balance wavers, or a strange pain settles deep inside your…
Neanderthals Were Professional Mountaineers Who Braved the Italian Alps Long Before Modern Humans
The cave sits quietly at 1,450 meters above sea level, carved into the Italian Alps where the air thins and…
This Unassuming Bone Fragment Just Rewrote 500,000 Years of Human History
For decades, it sat quietly among other ancient finds, a pale fragment of bone pulled from the earth of southern…
Scientists Discovered 400,000 Cosmic Secrets Hidden in 22 Years of X-Ray Data
Imagine a recording artist with a career so long and so rich that every performance, every improvisation, every subtle shift…
Scientists Watch Matter Flow Like a Perfect Liquid Moments After a Big Bang–Like Collision
Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, inside a circular tunnel stretching 17 miles around, lead ions race toward each other at…
This Tiny Superconducting Loop Could Be the Secret to Scaling Quantum Computing
Quantum computers promise to tackle problems that overwhelm even the fastest classical machines, yet behind that promise sits a surprisingly…
Scientists Found an Ancient Brain Rhythm That Links Your Sleep to 300 Million Year Old Reptiles
Sleep feels intimate and personal, something that happens quietly behind closed eyes. Yet beneath that stillness, brains hum with activity.…
Scientists Successfully Created Cage-Shaped Molecules That Shouldn’t Exist
For more than a century, organic chemistry has lived by a thick, trusted rulebook. These rules explain how atoms link…
Every 200 Electric Cars Added to a Neighborhood Drops Toxic Pollution by Over 1 Percent
In neighborhoods across California, something subtle has been happening. There are no dramatic plumes of smoke vanishing overnight, no sirens…
Astronomers Found the Largest Sulfur Molecule Ever Detected in Deep Space
In the cold, quiet reaches of space, far from planets and sunlight, chemistry still unfolds. Inside a vast molecular cloud…
This Ancient Planet Is Literally Being Stripped To Its Bones By Its Own Sun
It began, as so many planetary discoveries do, with a faint and persistent flicker in starlight. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
These Cosmic Time Travelers Are Staying Young by Sucking the Life Out of Their Neighbors
In the quiet depths of the Milky Way’s oldest star clusters, time is supposed to move in only one direction.…
Astronomers Found a Supermassive Black Hole Ignoring a Universal Speed Limit
Twelve billion years ago, when the universe was still young and galaxies were only beginning to take shape, a brilliant…
10 Mass Extinction Events (And What Caused Them)
Life on Earth feels permanent when viewed from a human lifetime. Forests seem ancient, oceans eternal, and animals part of…
11 Rare Minerals Found in Only One Place on Earth
Earth’s crust is a dynamic archive of deep time, shaped by heat, pressure, chemistry, and chance. Most minerals occur in…
10 Space Facts That Will Give You Existential Dread
Space is beautiful. It is also terrifying. The same universe that offers glittering stars and poetic nebulae carries truths so…
5 Myths About Space That Everyone Still Believes
Space has always lived at the intersection of fear, wonder, imagination, and misunderstanding. Long before telescopes, people filled the darkness…
6 Times Earth Narrowly Escaped an Asteroid Impact
The history of Earth is written not only in mountains and oceans, but in near-misses—moments when cosmic objects passed close…
9 Planets Where It Rains Diamonds, Glass, and Acid
Rain is one of the most intimate experiences we have with a planet. On Earth, rain smells like soil and…
7 Incredible Discoveries Made by the James Webb Space Telescope
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally unfolded its golden mirrors in space and began returning data, humanity crossed…