“Modern humans may have lived along side an extinct human species in ancient Indonesia.”

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Modern Humans May Have Lived Alongside an Extinct Human Species in Ancient Indonesia

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Mass Extinction 445 Million Years Ago Paved the Way for Jawed Fishes to Take Over

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773,000-Year-Old Fossils Capture a Moment Before Human Lineages Split

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Ancient Teeth Record Climate Change and Medieval Migration Into England

“Wolf supermoon, Fiery meteors, and a planet parade make early 2026 an astronomical feast.”

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New Models Reveal If Neanderthals and Modern Humans Ever Met on the Iberian Peninsula During the Old Stone Age

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Wolf Supermoon, Fiery Meteors, and a Planet Parade Make Early 2026 an Astronomical Feast

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Mold Is Feasting on Radiation in Chernobyl’s Abandoned Nuclear Plants

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No, Vikings Didn’t Have Horns On Their Helmets — Here’s The True Origins of the Myth

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NASA’s Colorful Cosmic Map Could Shed Light on First Moments After Big Bang

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Titan’s Subterranean Liquid Oceans May Actually Be Slush

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Hidden Molecules in Animal Fossil Reveal How the Ancient World Looked

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The Size of Our Galaxy Stretches Tens of Thousands of Light Years Across, But Its Height Is Rather Small 

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Ancient DNA Uncovers Startling Family Secret of a 3,500-Year-Old Bronze Age Community

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The Earth Is Round, and Is Also a Shifting, Squashed Spheroid

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The World’s Oldest Botanical Art Reveals How Humans Were Doing Math 8,000 Years Ago

“Neptune is the furthest planet from the Sun, but it still experiences auroras.”

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Neptune Is the Furthest Planet From the Sun, But It Still Experiences Auroras

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Think Pterosaurs and Plesiosaurs Are Dinosaurs? Here’s Why These and Other Species Are Not

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Icy Moons Orbiting Saturn and Uranus May Hide Boiling Liquid Oceans

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Volcanic Activity on Mars Could Help in the Search for Life on Other Planets

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Prehistoric Humans Traded This Rare Green Gem and AI Has Identified Its Surprising Origins 

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Footprints From Around 150 Million Years Ago Reveal the Strange Stomp of a Looping Sauropod

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The Disastrous Maya Collapse Knocked Down an Entire Network of Cities in Mesoamerica

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A 233-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How Pterosaurs Learned to Fly

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Separate Families Carved the 1,000 Easter Island Moai Statues — Some in Friendly Competition 

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The Burtele Foot and Other Fossils Reveal How Two Hominin Species Thrived Side by Side

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A Glow Hidden in the Milky Way’s Core May Reveal Dark Matter After a Century of Searching

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A Prehistoric Sea Monster Wielded Bone Blades to Terrorize the Ocean 360 Million Years Ago

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“Where is the center of the Universe?  Stop looking–it’s everywhere and nowhere at once.”

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Where Is the Center of the Universe? Stop Looking — It’s Everywhere and Nowhere at Once

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Hunting for Bigfoot Relies More on Science Than Skeptics Think

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Did Neanderthals Deal with the Common Cold and Other Types of Ailments? 

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Long-Necked Titanosaur Skeletons Have Surfaced at a Dinosaur Fossil Site in Transylvania 

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Ultrasound Technology Is Behind the World’s First Chocolate-Infused Honey

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New Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveal “How Magical the Universe Could Be”

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The World’s Most-Planted Wine Grape Still Carries Signals From the 1600s

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Unexpected Evidence of Life Found in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Using AI

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Bizarre Origins of Kissing Trace Back 21 Million Years to Apes — And Possibly Neanderthals

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40,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth RNA Offers Insight to Megafauna’s Final Moments

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“Radio signals detected from Comet 3I/ATLAS-what its interstellar origins reveal.”

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Animals of the Cambrian Period Experienced a Great Evolutionary Surge, Shaping Life Today

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100 Years of Menus Reveal How Food Has Quietly Shaped Political Alliances

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Radio Signals Detected From Comet 3I/ATLAS — What Its Interstellar Origins Reveal

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A Rare Alabaster Vase Reveals the First Clear Evidence of Opium Use in Ancient Egypt

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The Crocodile’s First Fierce Relative Stalked Earth 240 Million Years Ago

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Future Black Hole Images Could Put Einstein’s Theory to the Ultimate Test

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The Seven Sisters Star Cluster Is 20 Times Larger Than We Thought

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70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Reveals Ancient Nesting Clues

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Neanderthals Boasted Larger Jaws Than Humans Due to a Tiny Difference in DNA  

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Hidden Heat on Saturn’s Icy Moon Could Help It Sustain Life

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Neanderthals Boasted Larger Jaws Than Humans Due to a Tiny Difference in DNA  

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Hidden Heat on Saturn’s Icy Moon Could Help It Sustain Life

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Is a Sun a Star or a Planet? How We Know — and What Could Change

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J.J. Thompson Discovered the Electron — And Unknowingly Electrified Science Forever

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A Two-Mile-Tall Man Is Carved Into the Australian Outback — But No One Saw It Happen

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How Index Fossils Help Reconstruct Earth’s Ancient and Mysterious Past

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Early Hominins Perfected a Stone Tool That Survived 300,000 Years of Climate Chaos

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14th Century Tooth Reveals Grim Fate of Edinburgh Teen Killed by the Black Death

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Unique Protein That Helps Tardigrades Endure Deadly Radiation Could Help Us Fight Cancer

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The Ancient Maya Used The Dresden Codex to Predict Solar Eclipses with Impressive Accuracy

“The closest Black Hole to Earth is Gaia BH1 at only 1,600 light-years away.”

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The Closest Black Hole to Earth Is Gaia BH1 at Only 1,600 Light-Years Away

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Unique Protein That Helps Tardigrades Endure Deadly Radiation Could Help Us Fight Cancer

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The Ancient Maya Used The Dresden Codex to Predict Solar Eclipses with Impressive Accuracy

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Two Black Hole Mergers Emitted Gravitational Waves, Upholding Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

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2032 and 2036 Taurid Meteor Showers Could Bring Larger Halloween Fireball Debris to Earth

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Neanderthals Made Ochre Crayons 130,000 Years Ago, Showing Evidence of a Colorful Culture

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The Dueling Dinosaurs Mystery May Have Been Solved — The Baby T. rex Was Instead a Nanotyrannus

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China’s Ancient Tombs Reveal Links Between Political Stability and Prosperous Landscapes

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What Death Really Smells Like, And How Your Brain Knows What to Do About It

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This Ancient Species of Arctic Rhino May Have Crossed a Land Bridge 23 Million Years Ago

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How Many Suns Exist In The Milky Way? It’s Complicated

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Ancient Crocodile Fossil from Egyptian Desert Rewrites One of Earth’s Greatest Survival Stories

“Spot two comets at once as Lemmon and SWAN soar across our skies this week.”

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Spot Two Comets at Once as Lemmon and SWAN Soar Across Our Skies This Week

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Early Humans Outsprinted Other Apes in Evolution, Growing a Larger Brain at a Faster Rate

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230-Million-Year-Old Headless Fossil in Argentina Is One of the World’s Oldest Dinosaurs

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4.4-Million-Year-Old Ankle Holds Clues to How Our Ancient Ancestors Walked

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Taftan Volcano May Be Waking Up After a 700,000-Year Slumber

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Colliding Black Holes Emitted a Massive Ringing, Confirming Predictions from Hawking and Einstein

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Are We Really on the Brink of a Sixth Mass Extinction?

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First Evidence From Proto Earth May Be a Chemical Imbalance Hidden Inside Ancient Rocks

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AI Helps Decode Mysterious Prehistoric Cave Markings Known as Finger Flutings

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Humans in Europe Might’ve Taken Toolmaking Inspiration From Neanderthals

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Brain Cells on a Computer Chip Offer Advanced Medical Treatments and Use Less Energy