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An illustration symbolizes new battery technology: Proteins (red) hold tiny clusters of metal (silver). Each yellow ball in the structures at center represents a single atom of nickel or iron. Credit: Maher El-Kady / UCLA

Thomas Edison’s failed rechargeable battery may get a second life

Bow drill in action, New Kingdom tomb painting from Western Thebes, Tomb of Rekhmire, object 31.6.25, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain

Forgotten hand tool rewrites ancient Egyptian history

Thresher shark seen from below swimming in ocean

Ancient sharks once swam in this landlocked state

Wild boars killed by a pellet gun is seen inside a booby trap at a residential area near Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, March 30, 2017. (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Nuclear hog hybrids are breeding at breakneck speed in Japan

Candidates for Luna 9's landing site. Credit: Pinault et al.

Astronomers close in on long-lost Soviet lunar lander

Seed cone of the evergreen Norway spruce tree, Picea abies.

No, trees can’t anticipate a solar eclipse

Scans of severed skull fragments from Iberian Peninsula

Severed head rituals were more widespread in Iron Age Iberia than we thought

Antique film camera on stack of black and white pictures

$13 thrift store camera hid 70-year-old undeveloped film

Termites eating wood

Termites are swarming Florida even faster than predicted

Hands warming near a bonfire at night

Fire may have altered human DNA

Large group of used dirty sleeping mattresses. Abandoned in wild landfill

Fungi help turn old mattresses into insulation

ROV pilots filmed this glass squid at 1,725 meters while exploring the Colorado-Rawson submarine canyon off the coast of Argentina. CREDIT: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute Due to our legal status as a 501(c)(3) private operating foundation, no media produced by Schmidt Ocean Institute may be used in attempting to influence legislation or lobbying. Additionally, all visual assets (Images, videos, etc) can only be used as stated by creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Marine biologists discover 28 new deep sea species—and an old VHS tape

A white pickup truck is driving away from the viewer across a flat sandy plain with tall, smoothly sculpted dunes rising in the background. Small patches of dry grass are scattered in the foreground.

Death Valley National Park needs help ID’ing joyriding vandals

05 September 2020, Saxony-Anhalt, Halberstadt: Soprano Johanna Vargas (l) and composer Julian Lembke (r) use the organ pipes. Since 2001 the organ has been playing the music piece "ORGAN2/ASLSP" by John Cage without interruption. It is said to last 639 years. On Saturday, September 5, 2020, the 14th sound change of the John Cage Organ Art Project Halberstadt has been completed. In addition to the previous five pipes c'(16'), des'(16'), dis', ais' and e'', there are two new pipes g sharp and e. The next sound lasts until February 5, 2022. Then the g sharp will be dropped again. If everything goes as planned, the performance of the piece will last until the year 2640 Photo: Matthias Bein/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa (Photo by Matthias Bein/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Pipe organ plays single song for 639 years

Various angles of silver pendant with Roman gem inlay next to measurement references

Metal detectorist finds medieval pendant with a Roman ‘secret’

Artist illustration of Archaeopteryx

Weird bird mouths go all the way back to the first avian dinosaur

Poison warning label layered atop brown hair

Hair samples reveal the benefits of lead regulation

Green River in Flaming Gorge recreation area, Utah

The Green River flows ‘uphill.’ Geologists think they finally know why.

Two images of king cobras seen on or near trains in India

Endangered Species

King cobras take the train in India

Illustration of sailbacked dinosaur vomiting stomach contents

Oldest fossilized dinosaur vomit discovered in Germany

Two paleolithic skeletons displaying dwarfism in museum exhibit

Skeletons reveal Stone Age mother and daughter had a rare genetic condition

She-bear and bear-cubs. Adult female of Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) with cubs on the snow in spring forest.

Facial recognition AI trained to work on bears

Declaration of Independence broadside

Rare copy of Declaration of Independence going to auction

Lake Lipno frozen with green cyanobacterial blooms in winter

Toxic algae turned a frozen lake green

State park official on beach next to 19th century shipwreck wood

Winter storms uncover 19th-century shipwreck on New Jersey beach

Hobart, Tasmania - December 27 2016: road side warning sign for Tasmanian kangaroo, tasmanian devil and echidna wildlife

Roadkill is a surprising and untapped source for scientists

Milky way galaxy over observatory

Amazon’s 180 internet satellites are already too bright. It wants 3,000 more.

Funeral urn on table next to four lit candles

80% of Americans may opt for cremation by 2045

Comparison of short green and long red lipstick vine flowers

This odd vine contradicts long-standing evolutionary theory

Close up of woman brushing teeth using electric toothbrush

New whitening powder activates with your electric toothbrush

Abalone shells with numerical tags

Endangered Species

Mysterious, numbered mollusk discovered on Australian beach

This image is the sum of 86 observations added together, representing over three million seconds of Chandra observing time. It spans just about 60 light-years across, which is a veritable pinprick on the entire sky. The underlying image contains lower-, medium-, and higher-energy X-rays in red, green, and blue respectively. The annotations on the image show where Chandra has detected over 3,300 individual sources in this field of view over a 22-year timeframe.

Space Telescope

Gaze into the Milky Way’s black hole with NASA’s ‘back catalog’ of X-ray data

Scene from Bayeux tapestry showing Halley's comet

Halley’s comet may need a new, medieval name

Medieval portrait of Richard Rolle

Forgotten, priceless medieval book found in school library

Group of red kangaroos running in Australia

550-pound Ice Age kangaroos could still hop

Yellow bananas arranged against a blue background

Penis size may matter more to men than women

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s 2024 NIRCam image shows protostar EC 53 circled. Researchers using new data from Webb’s MIRI proved that crystalline silicates form in the hottest part of the disk of gas and dust surrounding the star — and may be shot to the system’s edges.

Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope solves a comet crystal mystery

Tree broken in half near house due to heavy snowfall

Ask Us Anything

Do trees really explode in extreme cold?

Four images side-by-side showing angles of a saxophone-inspired instrument called the Post Digital Sax

The 10 weirdest and wildest musical instruments of 2026

Pouring whiskey into glass from bottle near wooden barrel on table

Scottish distillery wants to bottle whisky in aluminum, not glass

Paleontologists excavating sandstone encased dinosaur fossils from parking lot dig site

Dinosaur bones found underneath parking lot in Dinosaur, Colorado

Canada and USA reenacting the war during 1812

British soldier’s long-lost memoir rediscovered in Cleveland

A seemingly serene landscape of gas and dust is hopping with star formation behind the scenes.

Space Telescope

Hubble spots three young stars going through growth spurts

Blockbuster video store exterior at night

How to make a Blockbuster VHS sleeve for any movie

A shark tooth next to a spoon used to excavate it from sand in Oman

In ancient Arabia, people dined on sharks and stingrays

This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner jet, indicating the reawakening of what had been a ‘sleeping’ supermassive black hole at the heart of the gigantic radio galaxy.

Black hole space volcano erupts after 100-million-year nap

Woman paying for something on laptop while holding credit card

Congress trying to make it easier to unsubscribe (again)

elon musk, game of thrones, queen elizabeth, barack obama

Wikipedia’s 25 most popular entries of all time

A sample of the dental remains excavated in Pontecagnano that date to the 7th-6th century BCE.

Iron Age teeth reveal the hidden lives of ancient Italians

Four desktop homescreens showing SETI@home software running

100 mystery sounds under review for signs of extraterrestrial life

Depiction of the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, Death, riding a mythical creature, presumably a winged lion. Below him is a personification of famine (Fames), pointing to her open mouth. The depiction was created in Erfurt in the mid-14th century; the connection to Neuses may be drawn due to the date – St. Mark’s Day – of the annual memorial procession leading to the mass grave. Source: Klassik-Stiftung Weimar

Medieval plague victims likely found in mass grave in Germany

White axolotl seen underwater

Endangered Species

Is it illegal to own an axolotl? It depends.

Peregrinen 4 quadcopter drone taking off from launch pad

Father and son reclaim Guinness World Record for fastest quadcopter drone

Diver underwater investigating Viking shipwreck

600-year-old Viking shipwreck is the largest of its kind

Close up of man's hands reaching into box of apples at orchard

Test your apple farming skills with this free video game

The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star RXJ0528+2838. When a star moves through space it can push away nearby material creating a so-called bow shock, which in this image is glowing in red, green and blue. The colours represent hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, respectively. These shocks are usually produced by a strong outflow expelled from the star. However, in the case of RXJ0528+2838 –– a white dwarf with a Sun-like companion –– astronomers discovered that the shock wave can’t be explained by any known mechanism. Some hidden energy source, perhaps magnetic fields, could be the answer to this mystery.

Space Telescope

Dead star emits perplexing shock wave for 1,000 years

Group of ancient Roman whetstones discovered in Britain

800 ancient Roman blade sharpeners found in Britain

The tiny blooms of Dendrobium eruciforme, known as the caterpillar orchid due to its creeping habit and small size. © Andre Schuiteman RBG Kew

Zombie fungus, ‘living stones’ among favorite botany discoveries of 2025

Photograph of lightning inside storm cloud taken above Milan, Italy, at night aboard the ISS

International Space Station

Astronaut snaps spectacular photo of lightning above Italy

Hand holding TV remote in front of out of focus TV screen

A little TV after a long day is good for your brain

Both sides of one of the arrowheads analysed. The left-hand image shows the organic remains in which the arrowhead residues were identified. Photo: Marlize Lombard

World’s oldest poison-tipped arrow discovered in South Africa

Pint of beer next to a cheeseburger

Beer waste helps lab-grown meat taste meatier

Close up of Greenland shark with copepod attached to eye

Dissected Greenland shark eyeballs could help humans see forever

This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2,000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The dashed circle marks the peak of radio emission,which is where researchers focused their search for stars. Follow-up observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys found no stars within the cloud. The few objects that appear within its boundaries are background galaxies. Before the Hubble observations, scientists could argue that Cloud-9 is a faint dwarf galaxy whose stars could not be seen with ground-based telescopes due to the lack of sensitivity. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows that, in reality, the failed galaxy contains no stars. [Image description: A region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.]

Space Telescope

Mysterious space object is full of dark matter

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