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A 1,000-solar-mass black hole may have grown into a giant without building a galaxy around it

Seven massive star clusters hold at least 80% of a galaxy from the universe’s first 400 million years

Shipwreck survivors may have built a temporary camp on a remote Argentine island in 1873

A gamma-ray burst faded, then its X-ray afterglow suddenly brightened weeks later

Hidden behind Galactic dust, Garro 04 emerges as a 10,000-light-year-distant cluster with shared motion, chemistry and a disk-like orbit

Earth may have kept its oceans and mild climate for billions of years without life

The stars’ 20-day rotation masquerades as planet-like signals in a nearby binary system

Hidden Milky Way star cluster may be 13.4 billion years old, nearly as old as the universe

Betelgeuse grows more oval as its companion star moves through its atmosphere

A rare Celtic warrior helmet was deliberately smashed and buried 2,400 years ago in Poland

In ancient Colombia, dying marine lineages shared the seas with evolutionary newcomers

Snow and ice give northern lakes a stronger cooling effect than nearby land

This 125-million-year-old dinosaur may have grown twice as large as the fossil found in England

Water warming makes young North Pacific water older while old tropical water gets younger

Black holes keep pace with their galaxies even when the galaxies have no bulge

This 105-million-year-old bird bone reveals an unusual leg built with two distinctive crests

New fossil jaws reveal unexpected variation in a 2-million-year-old human relative

500 chemicals with breast cancer relevance are found in consumer products, food and water

Earth appears to have grown mostly from pebble-built bodies, while Mars got most of its mass from planetesimals

The brain’s memory waves can spiral, ripple outward or converge inward

The bones of a 57-centimeter dinosaur preserve a different path to flight

Sick elephants on Mount Elgon reportedly target specific plants, while mothers mix some with milk for their calves

Spin-split bands in Co₁/₄TaSe₂ separate along one momentum direction, merge along another and reverse their spin character across a single pocket

Fornax-7 contains only about 170 Suns’ worth of stars, yet its distance leaves its true identity uncertain

Enceladus’ strange salt-rich ice grains may be fragments of larger frozen droplets

Magnetic anomalies led divers to a 17th-century shipwreck hidden beneath the Baltic seabed

Charge pairs first formed at the edges of a quantum string, then spread inward as its tension increased

White matter tracts that span the cortical hierarchy are linked to more diverse cognitive functions

The brain’s wiring aged faster in older adults with lower spinal bone density

Kidney disease often arrives before heart failure after a type 2 diabetes diagnosis