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Adults with sleep problems and mild cognitive impairment scored higher on cognitive tests when they reported taking at least 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily

Urolithin A targets a single cysteine to improve heart relaxation in mice with HFpEF

Australopithecus and Paranthropus may belong inside a much larger Homo

Birds add fresh greenery to their nests, but scientists still cannot explain why it helps their young

The ancient escarpment that may have erased 8 kilometers of rock from the Grand Canyon

NASA images a new 60-foot crater created by a SpaceX rocket stage

Hidden low-mass stars could make some early galaxies four times more massive

The Sun’s 11-year cycle weakened in two distinct ways during ancient solar minima

Archaeopteryx may have needed two or three jumps to take flight

Inside a Luxor tomb, later burials were placed directly over earlier ones

The modern human male pelvis may be the evolutionary outlier, not the Neanderthal pelvis

Sooty mangabeys bend the middle of their feet nearly as much as chimpanzees bend their ankles while climbing

Two actively feeding black holes are growing inside a compact Green Pea galaxy

Giant crocodilians left bite marks on 1,800-kilogram mammals 12 million years ago

This Cretaceous beetle had antennae unlike any known beetle, living or fossil

Distant blazar shows unusual light patterns that may be caused by invisible gravitational lenses

Pacific reefs once supported 20 times more sharks than Caribbean reefs in Panama

Ancient Wyoming forests opened up as heat and drying stressed trees 56 million years ago

Gluon production drops sharply when ALICE probes regions one-quarter the size of a proton

Millicharged particles could slip through a Faraday cage and leave an electric signal behind

Europe’s hyaenodonts did not disappear when rival predators expanded—they survived for millions of years

Bronze Age Greeks wore rings made from iron that fell from the sky

Tungsten may suffer more radiation damage than expected at extreme energies

Nearly all of the shackled men in ancient Greek mass graves grew up locally

The first Papuan-related migrants reached Fiji nearly 2,000 years ago

A black hole 660 million years after the Big Bang is buried in an extraordinary cocoon of dense gas

Dark photons may barely heat the early universe after all

GLP-1 drugs show potential health benefits beyond weight loss

Cygnus X-3 may be powering the Milky Way’s giant PeV gamma-ray bubble

Blood mixed with lime may have helped ancient Chinese rock art survive for 2,000 years