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Nearly every stellar stream in the simulations became irregular without any dark matter clumps

Early insects spent millions of years adapting to life between water and land

People in ancient Georgia were drinking cacao 800 years ago

165 million years ago, some katydid relatives may have called above the range of human hearing

Seven shark species once lived in the tropical sea covering Egypt’s Western Desert

Mars’ southern interior may be 400 degrees hotter than the north

Roman will try to photograph exoplanets a billion times fainter than their stars

A young woman’s grave was reopened before her body decomposed—and a sickle was placed across her neck

Gamma-ray line at 43 billion electron volts hints at the particles behind dark matter

Young planetary systems lose gas through powerful magnetic winds before radiation takes over

Little red dots may sit inside compact galaxies weighing 1 billion Suns

Earth’s magnetic response may not saturate during the strongest solar storms

Quantum computers could help electron microscopes get more information from fewer electrons

Intermittent fasting eased chronic pain in mice by changing a gut bacterium and immune signaling

Lab-grown brain cells kept maturing for seven years and retained their developmental history

Thunder can send seismic waves into the ground, creating a new way to image Earth’s shallow subsurface

Neolithic people in central Anatolia repeatedly marked obsidian arrowheads for reasons still unknown

The light spectrum from a rice-grain-sized chip can produce several millimeter-wave frequencies at once

Lab-grown brain tissue takes on distinct front and back identities like the developing human cortex

For endangered Chinook salmon, the first 15 days may determine who survives

AI model decodes a DNA sequence found in about 60% of human genes

Curiosity photographs tiny Martian polygons that may be ancient mud cracks

The neon-to-oxygen flow ratio rises sharply where nuclear structure matters most

Could quantum uncertainty in the universe’s size and expansion rate mimic dark energy?

Stone tools suggest Neanderthals may have reached northern Arabia around 55,000 years ago

A 6,500-year-old human tooth was turned into a carefully crafted pendant in Neolithic Serbia

This coronal mass ejection looked like it would miss Earth, but spacecraft found a hidden component

Large herbivores were not dying faster — they were evolving into new species more slowly

The human birth canal may have evolved more for pelvic floor stability than efficient walking

Maternal-age effects did not accumulate across generations, but they took opposite paths in two rotifer strains