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11-21-2025

Fresh ocean spray from Enceladus reveals its strongest signs of life to date

A new deep-dive into NASA's Cassini data has turned up the richest assortment yet of...

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11-21-2025

Melting polar ice is unleashing powerful new ocean currents

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11-21-2025

Ancient phage viruses may hold the key to defeating superbugs

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11-21-2025

Billions of birds depend on the 'Five Great Forests' that are now vanishing

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11-20-2025

Science

Study shows earthquakes create large gold nuggets in a matter of seconds

Crack open a chunk of white quartz from a gold...

A 340-million pixel starscape from Paranal

11-20-2025

Science

Digital Milky Way project uses AI to track over 100 billion stars in our galaxy

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version...

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11-20-2025

Environment News

Arctic graveyard packed with fossils reveals thriving marine ecosystem 250 million years ago

In 2015, a team of scientists began digging through frozen...

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11-20-2025

Greenland cave discovery reveals the Arctic temperature millions of years ago

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11-20-2025

Scorpion-shaped mound may have been an ancient solar observatory

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11-20-2025

This century is quickly becoming the era of extreme hail storms around the world

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11-20-2025

Environment News

Asia's first 'osmotic power plant' generates electricity using only water, 24 hours a day

On a humid August morning in Fukuoka, Japan switched on Asia’s first "osmotic power plant."...

11-20-2025

Environment News

Coastal waters are acidifying much faster than scientists expected

Coastal waters in the Pacific Ocean are becoming more acidic faster than expected. New research...

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Glaciers are breathing their own cold air for the last time before disappearing

Discovery in the deep ocean defies current human knowledge

Antarctic melt may help protect ocean circulation, but not our coastlines

Scientists discover a plant capable of killing weeds by itself, no chemicals needed

Ocean storms are melting Antarctica's ice from below

SCIENCE TOP STORIES

11-20-2025

Science

Mitochondria may be the spark that ignites Parkinson’s disease

For a long time, scientists have debated a simple question...

11-20-2025

Science

Greenland cave discovery reveals the Arctic temperature millions of years ago

Cave minerals from far northern Greenland show that the High...

11-20-2025

Science

Scorpion-shaped mound may have been an ancient solar observatory

Archaeologists report that a 205-foot scorpion-shaped earthwork in Mexico appears...

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11-20-2025

New parachute design achieves near-perfect, straight descents

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11-20-2025

Cutting-edge nanotechnology reverses Alzheimer's disease in new study

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11-20-2025

Archaeologists discover an 'extremely rare' Roman tomb in Germany

11-20-2025

This century is quickly becoming the era of extreme hail storms around the world

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11-20-2025

DNA from famous extinct horse species found next to a wooden spear that killed it

ANIMALS TOP STORIES

STORY OF THE DAY

11-20-2025

What transformed Easter Island? The answer isn’t what we thought

For years, the popular story about Easter Island has sounded like a warning. People cut...

11-20-2025

DNA from famous extinct horse species found next to a wooden spear that killed it

11-20-2025

How a violent clash between chimpanzees ended in a baby boom

11-20-2025

Bees spread positive emotions just by watching each other

LIFESTYLE TOP STORIES

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Mitochondria may be the spark that ignites Parkinson’s disease

For a long time, scientists have debated a simple question about Parkinson’s disease: do the cell’s tiny energy factories fail first and spark the disorder, or do they crumble only...

11-20-2025

Cutting-edge nanotechnology reverses Alzheimer's disease in new study

11-20-2025

Breast milk responds quickly to simple diet changes

11-20-2025

Hypertension affects the brain long before it’s detected

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11-19-2025

Extreme isolation is changing the way humans speak in Antarctica

11-19-2025

Hidden gene affects how quickly wounds heal in redheads

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11-19-2025

Scientists succeed in stopping the toxic protein that causes Parkinson's disease

Why the world’s richest countries aren’t the healthiest

Archaeological cave discovery upends the 'known' timeline of human civilization

Depression may be caused by tiny DNA switches deep inside neurons

Young Americans are abandoning the idea of working for tech companies

PLANTS TOP STORIES

11-20-2025

Plants News

What transformed Easter Island? The answer isn’t what we thought

For years, the popular story about Easter Island has sounded...

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11-20-2025

Plants News

Scientists discover a plant capable of killing weeds by itself, no chemicals needed

Japanese researchers report a single natural compound from Manchurian walnut...

11-20-2025

Plants News

Rice harvests are collapsing under more intense flood seasons

Rice feeds more than half the world, yet it grows...

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11-19-2025

900 years ago, ancient Americans somehow moved a 5-ton tree over 100 miles

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11-19-2025

These beautiful flowers have become very destructive ecological invaders

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11-19-2025

Young boy's discovery in his backyard literally changed science forever

11-18-2025

Simple dressing trick unlocks hidden nutrients in kale

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11-18-2025

Invasive species do not destroy ecosystems all at once, they have a plan

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