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Capybaras once lived in a wet, palm-filled landscape where the Atacama Desert now stands

Greenland and Antarctica lost 11,309 billion tonnes of ice from 1979 to 2023

Little Foot’s 3.67-million-year-old bones preserve a split locomotor signature: ape-like arms, human-like leg loading, and a life spent between trees and the ground

T. rex ran hotter than its Late Cretaceous world, with teeth recording an average body temperature of 36.3°C

Metal-bearing gas was already moving at up to 250 kilometers per second around galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang

Astronomers spot what may be the first stellar stream from a globular cluster torn apart outside the Milky Way

Vitamin C did not slow abnormal blood-cell clones, but it was linked to longer survival

TRAPPIST-1e is older than Earth, but its hypothetical biosphere may be billions of years behind

β Pictoris b is blasting out auroral radio bursts from a magnetic field at least 1.25 kilogauss strong

One jet from a hidden binary may be hitting a molecular cloud deep in the Milky Way

For the first time, researchers see a quantum jump in sound as it happens

Microscopic black holes at the LHC remain elusive—but their possible mass is now constrained to 9–11.4 TeV

The Moon’s newest crater disturbed the surface more than 120 kilometers away

A giant planet’s transits are shifting toward the edge of its star and may vanish by 2033

Huge impacts may shatter icy moons, but their underground oceans can survive for billions of years

A giant planet is growing inside a narrow gap around a star less than 1 million years old

This spiral galaxy’s center rotates at a right angle to its outer disk

The solar system’s first planetesimals were mostly built from heat-forged rock droplets

The human brain may have formed by joining two ancient nervous systems

Inside a brittle carbonized scroll, X-rays recovered hidden words without opening it

Delayed collapse lets a young cosmic halo grow a million-solar-mass black hole seed

One fossil species may make some of the oldest dinosaur relatives younger than thought

47 faint dwarf galaxy candidates emerge where only four were known before

One stellar stream may be the remains of a disrupted dwarf galaxy

Grass leaves, stems and flowers were deliberately carried deep into an Australian cave and burned

SIMP 0136’s changing spectrum can be traced to two atmospheric patterns as it spins every 2.4 hours

RhoBAST’s fluorescent signal begins with one RNA nucleotide flipping out to make room for a dye

Superfluid helium produces a tightly directed muonium beam at 2,180 meters per second

The hotter people preferred their tea or coffee, the higher their esophageal cancer risk

Ancient teeth show Lebanon stayed wooded for at least 300,000 years