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Science Scientists found a Denisovan arm bone, teeth, skull pieces, and stone tools in a China cave — the best look yet at this mysterious ancient human relative.
Science Workers building a road in Brazil accidentally uncovered the bones of a brand-new dinosaur species — a 20-meter giant with a surprising European cousin!
Science Scientists at the University of Maryland found special proteins in rattlesnake blood that could be 10 times better at treating snakebites than medicines we use today!
Science Scientists found a 'Pac-Man' enzyme in forest soil bacteria that can eat bioplastic and break down penicillin — a surprising double power.
Science Scientists found 80,000-year-old stone points in a cave in Uzbekistan that may be the world's oldest arrowheads — rewriting the story of early humans.
Science A giant detector buried underground in South Dakota picked up a mysterious signal that scientists can't explain. Could it be dark matter? Here's the story!
Science Scientists at UC San Diego showed a natural enzyme can read an 8-letter genetic code — double the 4 letters all life on Earth uses. Here's why it's a big deal!
Science The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes honored the funniest — and most thought-provoking — science of the year, from cockroach milk to 1,000 buried pairs of underpants!
Science A giant underground detector may have caught a tiny flash from dark matter — the invisible stuff that fills most of our universe. Scientists are excited but cautious!
Science Scientists confirmed that the world's biggest scorpion ever — as long as a school desk — stalked ancient Britain 415 million years ago, long before forests even existed!
Science Deep beneath Africa, a massive blob of super-hot rock is slowly tearing the continent apart. Scientists just found new clues about this planet-changing process!
Science Scientists found that the inside of Mars is hundreds of degrees hotter on one side than the other — and it could be a clue about life.
Science Something hidden inside Venus's clouds has been swallowing sunlight for a century. New research just made the mystery deeper — and more exciting.
Science Scientists mapped the DNA of 4,454 animal species and found that all animals — from humans to octopuses — follow the same hidden 'evolutionary highways.'
Science Leg bones found on the seafloor near Taiwan suggest that Denisovans, ancient human relatives, may have been up to 6 feet 3 inches tall — a stunning new discovery.
Science Scientists found a clue to why a billion years of rock are missing from the Grand Canyon — a giant ancient cliff taller than the Empire State Building!
Science Long before humans invented plastic, microbes made their own — and a new study shows worms, starfish, and other animals have been munching on it for millions of years!
Science Scientists discovered a hidden Y-shaped gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks about what matter is made of and why it stays together.
Science Scientists discovered that a single human brain cell can perform complex computations on its own — more like a tiny computer than a simple on-off switch.
Science Scientists detected a faint 'ghost glow' of invisible particles from a switched-off nuclear reactor — a world first that could help keep nuclear sites safe.
Science Stanford scientists discovered that tiny immune cells from our blood sneak into our brains as we age. The finding could help treat brain diseases one day!
Science A new study in Science Advances suggests life on Earth may have started not once but twice, 4 billion years ago. Scientists are amazed by what they found!
Science Scientists in Brazil have identified a brand-new species of ancient reptile that lived 240 million years ago — before dinosaurs even existed! Here's its wild story.
Science CT scans of rare dodo bird skulls reveal it had a strong sense of smell, a super-sensitive beak, and may have hunted at dawn and dusk like an owl.
Science The world's most powerful solar telescope just caught tiny plasma whirlpools spinning on the Sun's surface for the very first time. Here's why it matters!
Science Scientists just found living microbes — including ancient gut bacteria and cold-loving yeasts — still surviving on Ötzi the Iceman's 5,300-year-old frozen mummy!
Science A life-size, 31-foot skeleton of Deinosuchus — the ancient croc that ate dinosaurs — is now on display at a Georgia museum for the first time ever.
Science Scientists have found a colossal hidden reservoir of magma deep beneath Tuscany, Italy — as big as Yellowstone's — with no volcano visible on the surface.
Science Scientists studied 1.4-million-year-old footprints in Kenya and found that Nutcracker Man was much bigger than anyone thought — and traveled in groups!
Science Scientists at CERN smashed tiny oxygen and neon atoms together and found signs of quark-gluon plasma — the same matter that filled the universe just after the Big Bang!
Science Scientists finally dated ancient cave paintings in France by finding hidden charcoal in the paint — some are 13,000 to 16,000 years old!
Science Scientists say our eyes evolved from a tiny one-eyed, worm-like creature that lived 600 million years ago. And part of that ancient eye still lives in your brain!
Science Scientists discovered the Sun holds 55% more silver than anyone thought. The finding helps solve a long mystery about how heavy metals spread across the universe.
Science Scientists have found tiny brain circuits in bees that tell them what job to do. When researchers turned off the switch, older bees acted like babies again!
Science Scientists discovered that two South American sauropod dinosaurs could stand on their hind legs — but as they grew bigger, it became impossible!
Science Scientists discovered a hidden 'switch-off' signal in the Sun's cycle that could let them predict dangerous space weather up to 7 years in advance!
Science A giant hole in the Sun's atmosphere is sending fast solar wind toward Earth today, July 21, which could spark a beautiful aurora display tonight and tomorrow.
Science Scientists have identified the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid as a super-rare CO chondrite using nickel isotopes — and it changes how we think about the extinction.
Science Scientists linked a single asteroid smash-up to a giant storm of space rock impacts on Earth, the Moon, and Mars 800 million years ago.
Science Scientists studied a fossil skull with a T. Rex tooth still stuck inside it — giving us the clearest proof ever of how T. Rex hunted 66 million years ago!
Science Scientists discovered your brain starts making decisions much earlier than we thought — even before the "thinking" part gets involved. Here's what that means!
Science Scientists discovered that the crushing pressure deep underwater squeezes nutrients out of sinking 'marine snow,' feeding billions of tiny microbes in the dark abyss.
Science Scientists solved a 252-million-year-old mystery: why did some ocean creatures survive Earth's worst extinction while others vanished? Warming water holds the key.
Science Scientists discovered that oak trees keep absorbing carbon dioxide for months after they stop growing — and that changes everything we thought about forests!
Science A stronger-than-expected G3 solar storm lit up the skies on July 4, 2026, sending dazzling northern lights as far south as Utah, Colorado, and Nevada!
Science Scientists built a life-size dinosaur nest in a lab to solve how oviraptors hatched their eggs 70 million years ago. The answer is surprising!
Science Scientists at the University of Minnesota built SpudCell, the world's first fully synthetic cell made from non-living parts that can eat, grow, and make copies of itself!
Science Scientists just released the biggest-ever list of gravitational wave detections — 390 total! These invisible ripples in space come from crashing black holes.
Science Scientists in South Korea invented a powder you can spray on a wound that turns into a gel and stops dangerous bleeding in just one second. Here's how it works!
Science A bone found in Antarctica in 1985 sat in a museum drawer for decades. Scientists just discovered it belongs to a titanosaur dinosaur! Here's the story.