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The model demonstrated remarkable precision, stability and speed across a highly complex dance routine.
On the night of Feb. 2, skywatchers in eastern North America can see the moon occult Regulus — a rare event visible to the naked eye.
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An award-winning birding binocular with both style and substance at a reasonable price — a must for any nature enthusiast.
An 11th-century monk saw the famous “Halley’s comet” first as a child and later as an adult, new research finds.
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.
Nearly 790 people, primarily children, have been infected in South Carolina’s ongoing measles outbreak, officials report.
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New footage shows one of NASA’s WB-57 research jets spewing out flames and smoke as it skids across a runway during an emergency landing near Houston. The veteran aircraft was due to play a small role in the Artemis II mission.
Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the region.
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The mystery of a Stone Age teenager’s death has been solved — 80 years after he was found in an ancient burial ground in Italy.
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The best of February’s stargazing events — with key dates and the must-have gear to see them at their best.
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A new system will enable operators to use laser beams to top off batteries while drones are in midflight.
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Scientists discover a tipping point that took place in 2000, where El Niño’s effect on sea ice loss in Siberia was amplified.
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A new study shows that organic residues from a Roman-era glass medicinal vial came from human feces.
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AI helped researchers probe the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive to find strange celestial objects, including some indescribable by science.
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Scholars know of some important ancient cities from texts, but they haven’t been able to find them.
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Even the most skilled face recognizers are duped by AI-generated faces, a new study finds. But they can improve with training.
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Here are a dozen strange and interesting tales from the medical literature.
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Spotting an AI-generated face is harder than you might think. How confident are you in your ability?
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Our sun is huge, at least compared to Earth and the other planets. So is it really a dwarf?
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Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was murdered.
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A large fish-eating dinosaur died beside a river 125 million years ago in Cretaceous Thailand. Now, the remains of this ancient predator are helping researchers better understand Asia’s enigmatic spinosaurids.
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Scientists adapted a method that can produce double the amount of hydrogen when splitting water molecules with electricity.
A new computational model suggests that Uranus’ and Neptune’s cores may be less icy than their “ice giant” nickname suggests.
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Based on our “Diagnostic Dilemma” series, this quiz tests your medical know-how.
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A never-before-seen Homo erectus face reveals a complex picture of early human evolution.
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Findings about our human ancestors continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025.
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A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world’s little-known volcanoes pose the greatest threat.
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From Orion and Taurus to Auriga and Perseus, here are 10 easy sets of stars to find in the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky.
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The Coconucos volcanic chain is a mountain ridge dotted with at least 14 volcano craters, including one that is active and erupted in December 2025.
Dec 25, 2025
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Conservationists are celebrating the rediscovery of flat-headed cats in Thailand after camera traps recorded the endangered feline for the first time in almost 30 years.
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Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.
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The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest.
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How well do you know that organ between your ears? Test your recognition of neuroscience terms with this word search.
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Archaeologists discovered artifacts for sale in a thrift shop. They decided to create a college course on what to do about them.
Dec 24, 2025
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The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.
The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as they are in today’s fractured world too.
Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.
A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen “superkilonova.”
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died.
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AI slop, chatbots and agentic AI are changing the internet, and could transform it beyond recognition, experts say.
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Do you know your mathematical equations from your scientific constants? If you know your numbers then try our daily quiz.
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DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves, research shows.
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Blood tests that look for over a dozen cancers are being developed. But how soon will they help patients?
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Discover the highlights of the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky with our guide to the top celestial sights to enjoy through binoculars between November 2025 and January 2026.
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In an unusual case, a man’s bladder swelled dramatically at its base, taking the shape of a Christmas tree.
Dec 23, 2025
Earth’s seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years’ worth of satellite data reveals.
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Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.
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By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.
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A small study reveals that cats greet male owners more vocally than female ones. But the findings could be a result of cultural norms among the participants, rather than a universal cat behavior, scientists say.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its high-definition camera. It reveals a dark region of moving sand dunes.
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A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.
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A new material called multiscale reduced graphene oxide could mean faster charging and power delivery than traditional batteries allow.
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This mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision, with their spiral arms overlapping and bending toward their neighbors’ cores.
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The “morning star” is bright because of several factors, including having an atmosphere filled with sulfuric acid.
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Don’t let anyone else choose your next telescope, camera or binoculars — these are important pieces of equipment that you should buy for yourself
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We tested every single pair of Celestron 10×42 binoculars so you don’t have to — find out which one comes out on top.
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Dec. 20, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Researchers say they have created the world’s first scalable atomic quantum processor that achieves record-breaking 99.99% fidelity.
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Humans grow tall in spurts, but what’s our fastest period of growth?
Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.
Dec 19, 2025
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3I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object.
Everyone’s favorite interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, flew past Earth overnight, coming within about 168 million miles (270 million kilometers) of our planet.
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AI is making gains in solving pure math problems. Can it crack the hardest problems in mathematics?
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More than a dozen mummies of kids with facial tattoos were found at an archaeological site in Christian-era Nubia.
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A new high-power laser system will soon be sent to sea for its first tests under maritime conditions.
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Your guide to the best sights the night sky has to offer from Dec. 20, 2025, to Jan. 4, 2026 — and the gear you’ll need to see them.
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Here’s how to see the Ursid meteor shower, which peaks in dark skies close to a new moon this year.
Dec 18, 2025
Analysis of latrine sediments at the Roman fort of Vindolanda has revealed that at least three parasites were widespread among Roman soldiers.
Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, reached its closest point to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday (Dec. 18 to 19), and it remains in a good viewing position tonight. Here’s how to see it.
NASA’s alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter.
Lava rubble at the bottom of the sea is acting like a giant “sponge” for carbon dioxide, ancient cores reveal.
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Giving immunotherapy earlier in the day can significantly extend patients’ survival, compared to giving treatment later in the day, a new study of lung cancer shows.
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Archaeologists have found the earliest DNA evidence to date of a father-daughter pairing.
An excavation at the City of David in Jerusalem unearthed a 1,300-year-old medallion decorated with a seven-branched menorah on each side.
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Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has enabled astronomers to map the unssen surface of the sun’s atmosphere for the first time.
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Astronomers traced a mysterious ‘scar’ of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago.
Dec 17, 2025
Pumas in Patagonia, Argentina are eating penguins in a national park — and it’s changing how the big cats are interacting with each other.
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A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter’s moon Europa in 1998. The finding could have implications for a NASA spacecraft en route to the frozen world.
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These Anglo-Saxon accessories were recovered from the side of a hill in England and may be from a hoard, a ritual deposit or a collection of stolen items.
Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush.
The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe’s most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James Webb telescope observations reveal.
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The human eye can only detect wavelengths in the visible light range, but a new imaging system will let us “see” infrared radiation using smartphones.
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Some of the victims at Pompeii were wearing woolen cloaks when they died, even though it was August, new research finds.
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A man with few risk factors unexpectedly experienced a stroke, and his daily energy drink habit may have been to blame.
Dec 16, 2025
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In this excerpt from North: The Future of Post-Climate America, Jesse M. Keenan looks at the complexities of “climate safe havens” — and the pushes and pulls that will lead people to relocate as the risks ramp up.
Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited by owls thousands of years ago.
Controlling immune cells’ internal clocks helped reduce inflammatory damage in conditions like heart attack and sickle cell disease, a mouse study found.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big Bang.
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A brain-scan study reveals key components of the brain’s navigation system, which may help us better understand early symptoms of dementia.
The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a “public calendar” and a roof for astronomical observation.
Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions.
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The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare “butterfly” crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure sports a pair of smooth, rocky wings, which were likely “fluidized” by buried Martian ice.
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The novel design for the new qubit uses the chemical element tantalum in tandem with a special silicon substrate, creating what researchers say are the most coherent superconducting qubits to date.
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The snuggly Bose QuietComfort headphones are now 51% at Amazon, and cheaper than they were during Black Friday.
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Can this eco-friendly toothbrush live up to the hype?