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Scientists discover hidden “footprints of death” that may help viruses spread

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new twist in what happens when cells die. As dying cells break apart, they leave behind tiny “footpr…

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Why South Africa’s leopards shrank to half their normal size

A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story. Researchers analyzing entire leopard genomes di…

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Early humans were bringing fire into caves 1.8 million years ago

A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers foun…

The tea in your kombucha changes more than just the taste

Scientists discovered that kombucha’s flavor, chemistry, and antioxidant activity vary dramatically depending on the tea used to make it. G…

A rare interstellar visitor triggered a SETI search for alien technology

SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology but found nothi…

Scientists finally solved how H5N1 bird flu hid in dairy cows

Researchers uncovered why H5N1 bird flu attacks cows’ udders instead of their lungs: the virus’s preferred receptors are concentrated in ma…

Hidden bird species discovered in Japan after DNA reveals a stunning secret

A bird long thought to be a single rare species in Japan has turned out to be two. Scientists discovered that the elusive Ijima’s Leaf Warb…

This four-winged dinosaur may have terrorized Earth's earliest birds

A newly discovered feathered dinosaur called Jian changmaensis may be the missing predator responsible for mysterious piles of crushed preh…

Scientists just discovered how queen bees are really made

For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen. New research rev…

A tiny diamond defect could reveal a mysterious new kind of magnetism

A newly proposed quantum sensing technique could make it much easier to identify one of physics’ newest and most intriguing classes of magn…

New brain study reveals speech learning works differently than we thought

A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas th…

One of the world’s most popular weedkillers may be fueling deadly superbugs

Researchers found that highly drug-resistant bacteria from hospitals are also resistant to glyphosate, a commonly used weedkiller. The disc…

Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand

A cave in New Zealand has yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem that existed about 1 million years ago, including a possible flying ancesto…

Meteorite reveals a lost moon-sized world from the dawn of the solar system

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic col…

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra-cold matter t…

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Future astronauts could walk across rocks from deep inside the Moon

A colossal ancient collision may have left some of the Moon’s deepest secrets surprisingly close to future Artemis landing sites. By recrea…

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Butterfly that barely ages could help unlock longevity secrets

Scientists discovered that Heliconius butterflies have evolved an extraordinary lifespan, living several times longer than closely related …