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High definition image of a snake embryo

Biologists discover why snake embryos always coil to the right

a white telescope launches aboard a rocket

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launches

By Andrew Paul, Laura Baisas

Dyson sphere. Alien mega structure around a star.

Sorry, aliens didn’t build Dyson spheres around these dwarf stars

June 1944, the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Forecasters recreate the weather that made D-Day possible

Budapest's Rock of Starvation resurfaced in the Danube River during low water levels.

‘Rock of Starvation’ reappears in Budapest during historic drought

Image of 220P/McNaught comet in night sky

Space Telescope

Look up! Now’s your chance to spot an unusually luminous comet

Clean cotton underwear beside a shovel beside decomposing cotton underwear, all on green grass

‘Proof by Underpants’ offers a cheeky way to test soil

Woman holding knife while opening cacao plant seed

Indigenous nations in present-day Georgia may have enjoyed cacao

LOS ANGELES - 1978: Country singer Dolly Parton poses for a portrait session in 1978 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry Langdon/Getty Images)

Butterfly wing crystals inspire new eco-friendly glitter

17th century skeleton of a young woman in burial plot in Poland

400-year-old ‘vampire’ grave discovered in Poland

Two conservation officers holding large Burmese python after confiscating it from owner on Coney Island

Police seize massive Burmese python near Coney Island boardwalk

Artist's concept art of the NASA Gateway lunar spaceport orbiting the moon in the background

How NASA is prepping for lunar traffic jams

A region of space filled with bright stars and clouds of gas. In the centre, the densest clouds form the shape of a chest with its lid open. The chest appears to glow from within. At its base it breaks apart into long pillars of thick gas. Many of the gas clouds in the background are dark orange globules, while others form large, pale hazes. A few brightly shining stars lie in the foreground, the biggest and brightest in front of the chest’s lid.

Space Telescope

‘Treasure Chest’ cosmic cloud glitters with dozens of young stars

30 July 2026, Schleswig-Holstein, Wacken: Fans celebrate during a concert by the band H-Blockx in front of the "Louder" stage at Wacken Open Air (W:O:A). W:O:A is considered the world's largest heavy metal festival. Photo: Frank Molter/dpa (Photo by Frank Molter/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Heavy metal fans may handle pain better than others

Hand holding 3D-printed cookie made from ingredients derived from plastic

Engineers 3D-printed edible cookies from plastic

Close up of hand holding one of the obsidian arrowheads

Oddly etched Neolithic arrowheads baffle archaeologists in Turkey

RAF WWII mine submerged in Danube River

Fisherman finds live WWII mine at bottom of Danube River in Slovakia

Scientists standing inside ALICE collider at CERN

Particle Physics

Scientists smash atoms together to create ‘little’ big bangs

Microscopic image of bone from a large whip snake (Dolichophis jugularis) showing cut marks. Credit: Maayan Lev

15,000 years ago, desert dwellers dined on snakes and lizards

Artist's illustration of Swift Observatory orbiting Earth in space

Space Telescope

NASA abandons mission to save Swift Observatory from a fiery death

Image of SpaceX lunar crater created by upper stage rocket with a red arrow pointing to it

NASA shares first images of SpaceX moon crash site

This visible light wide-field view shows the rich star clouds in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer) in the direction of the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. The entire image is filled with vast numbers of stars — but far more remain hidden behind clouds of dust and are only revealed in infrared images. This view was created from photographs in red and blue light and form part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field of view is approximately 3.5 degrees x 3.6 degrees.

A star spinning at 15,000 miles per second tests Einstein theory of relativity

NASA’s Boeing 777 returns to the agency’s Langley Research Center after receiving a new paint scheme.

NASA’s next flying lab readies for takeoff after new paint job

Close up of a tarantula in the southern utah desert

Desert tarantulas prepare for sex and death at Zion National Park

A male person with an artificial model of a human pelvis.

Male Neanderthal hips looked more like a human woman’s hips

Mummified individuals from Side Chamber 3 of Theban Tomb 209, showing variation in body orientation and arm position.

300 years of mummies found in ancient Egyptian tomb

Man holding 3D printed toy banjo that uses balloon as sound board

3D-printed ‘balloon banjo’ is ready for pickin’

Ground penetrating radar outlines of St Clare's Convent underneath soccer field in Denmark

Danish town plans for underground parking garage, finds long-lost medieval convent

Supersonic trebuchet in backyard with man standing behind it

Man builds supersonic trebuchet in his backyard

Artist's impression of the cosmocube orbiter above the moon

A suitcase-sized satellite may unlock the secrets of the early universe

MUNICH, GERMANY - APRIL 02: The burial mask of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun is shown during the 'Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schaetze' Exhibition Preview at Kleine Olympiahalle on April 2, 2015 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images)

Illegal mummy trafficking may curse buyers with mold, not magic

Little Free Blockbuster stand in front yard

Free Blockbusters are popping up to bring back physical media

German DKW NZ 350-1 motorcycle remains excavated from Danube riverbed with measuring tape beneath it for size reference

WWII motorcycle and soldiers emerge from river muck in Hungary

WW2 letter from Louis 'Speedy' Weber that reads Sunday, August 23, 7:15 a.m. Darling, I'm being shipped out today and I don't know where I'm being shipped to. All my love, Speedy. P.S. I Love you

Read a WWII Army private’s letters back home for the first time

I Love The 90s website home page showing various links to archival YouTube channels, games, and a chatroom

I Love the 90s! captures the first digital decade in rad detail

Astronomers have discovered a “black hole star,” an extremely bright red spot in the early universe that appears to be a new type of astrophysical object. It resembles an enormous star, but its energy production is closer to what a black hole might generate.

Astronomers discover the existence of a ‘black hole star’

This image features data from Webb’s NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument) to capture the most detailed mid-infrared view yet of the field that hosts the highly evolved star IRS 3, which is located just 0.55 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way galaxy's central supermassive black hole. An international team of astronomers have discovered that dust and water can form and survive surprisingly close to this supermassive black hole. The observations reveal that the evolved star IRS 3 continues to enrich its surroundings with newly formed material despite the intense radiation environment around Sagittarius A*. The data in this image were taken with Webb programmes #1939 (J. Lu), #3571 (F. Yusef-Zadeh), #2491 (N. B. Sabha), and #2075 (C. Chan). [Image description: A dense star field fills the entire image, with countless stars scattered across a backdrop of glowing clouds in shades of red, orange, pink, white, and blue. At the centre, a brilliant concentration of stars creates a bright, almost white core surrounded by intricate filaments and wisps of illuminated gas and dust that radiate outward. Dark, irregular patches of opaque dust interrupt the glowing clouds, particularly toward the left side of the image, where they appear as silhouetted shapes against the brighter background. The surrounding stellar population varies in brightness and colour, with cool blue stars and warmer orange and red stars distributed throughout the scene.]

Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole actually doesn’t devour everything

The first inter-city train from Beijing to north China's Tianjin departs from Beijing South Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 1, 2008. China, home to the world's largest high-speed rail network, has expanded its total operational mileage beyond 50,000 kilometers with the launch of a new high-speed line.A "Fuxing" bullet train departed Friday morning from Yan'an, a sacred revolutionary heartland in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, for the provincial capital Xi'an, inaugurating the new route. (Photo by Gong Lei/Xinhua via Getty Images)

China’s experimental bullet train hits 497 mph in 5 seconds

Black and white photo of the USS Trigger submarine at sea with crew standing atop it

Tragic piece of WWII history discovered on historic submarine

The canals and raised fields of La Mojana during wet season.

Ancient South American families built massive waterways by themselves

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING -AUGUST 7: Visitors walk the boardwalk as White Dome geyser erupts. The 12-foot-high geyserite cone is one of the largest in the park and has eruptions as tall as 30 feet on August 7, 2024 in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/Getty Images)

How Yellowstone builds boardwalks beside piping hot thermal pools

Two people piloting a cardboard boat designed to look like a red biplane during the Cardboard Boat Regatta in New Richmond, Ohio

Ohio’s Cardboard Boat Museum is a tribute to improbable homemade vessels

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, depicted in this artist’s concept, has enough power to continue operating three science instruments in interstellar space longer than anticipated thanks to some clever engineering by the mission team.

NASA successfully gives Voyager 2 another year of life

Close up of ancient Roman stone tablet inscribed with tax corruption decree

In ancient Rome, tax fraud was punishable by death

Man standing next to his flame-spouting pipe organ invention powered by propane.

Man builds fire-spouting propane pipe organ

NEIJIANG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 30: A worker transfers PVC pipes at a factory of Sichuan Hongyu Hengchuang Plastic Products Co., Ltd. on November 30, 2022 in Neijiang, Sichuan Province of China. (Photo by Lan Zitao/VCG via Getty Images)

Hard-to-recycle PVC turned into sustainable lubricant

Conservationist holding large Burmese python by the tail in Florida Everglades

280 snakes killed at 2026 Florida Python Challenge

Python incentives and education specialist, Robert Edman, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, demonstrates how to catch a python during an event promoting the Florida Python Challenge 2020 Python Bowl on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. The python challenge is a conservation effort that includes public outreach on the invasive pythons and a ten day competition to remove pythons from the Florida Everglades. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/TNS)

Florida Python Challenge winner slayed 96 snakes

An image of a 100 micrometer coprolite fossil

Poop made life on Earth possible. Yes, poop.

An image of a supernova shock breakthrough in space with three additional timelapses images on the right showcasing its luminosity shift over years.

Space Telescope

Extraordinarily rare supernova death spotted 500 million light-years from Earth

Highly detailed image of roiling plasma on the surface of the sun

Plasma waves spotted on sun’s surface for the first time

Ants cooperating on branch to lift leaf

Unlike humans, ants work better in larger groups

Megalodon tooth with layers of polymetallic deposits atop a NOAA Ocean Exploration towel

Massive, metal-encrusted megalodon teeth litter deep ocean floor

NEGOTIN, SERBIA - SEPTEMBER 13: A view of the wreckage of German warship, in Negotin, Serbia on September 13, 2024. A German warship, dating back to World War II, has resurfaced in Serbia's Danube River near the eastern village of Prahovo in the Negotin region due to receding water levels caused by recent extreme heat. The vessel is believed to be part of Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet, which was abandoned by retreating German forces in 1944 as the Soviet army advanced. (Photo by Amir Hamzagic/Anadolu via Getty Images)

German WWII shipwrecks resurface in Danube River

Declared the oldest known working light bulb by Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley's Believe-It-or-Not in 1972, the centennial bulb hangs from the ceiling of Livermore Fire Station #6 on Thursday Feb. 3, 2011, in Livermore, Ca. The light bulb was first switched on at fire department hose cart house on L Street in Livermore in 1901.

The world’s oldest lightbulb has been shining for 125 years

This carnivorous sponge was one of several seen during Dive 09 of the 2026 Cook Islands ROV Exploration cruise. Unlike fitler feeding sponges, carnivorous sponges prey on animals such as small crustaceans that they capture from the water column.

How to watch a live deep-sea exploration in the Pacific

TAKEHARA, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 24: Rabbits look for food at the beach on Okunoshima Island on February 24, 2014 in Takehara, Japan. Okunoshima is a small island located in the Inland Sea of Japan in Hiroshima Prefecture. The Island often called Usagi Jima or "Rabbit Island" is famous for it's rabbit population that has taken over the island and become a tourist attraction with many people coming to the feed the animals and enjoy the islands tourist facilities which include a resort, six hole golf course and camping grounds. During World War II the island was used as a poison gas facility. From 1929 to 1945, the Japanese Army produced five types of poison gas on Okunoshima Island. The island was so secret that local residents were told to keep away and it was removed from area maps. Today ruins of the old forts and chemical factories can be found all across the island. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Wild boars develop taste for beloved rabbits on popular island in Japan

Two angles of a phallic themed copper nail cleaner from ancient Rome

1,600-year-old phallic nail cleaner discovered near roadwork in England

DHAKA, BANGLADESH - NOVEMBER 11: A monkey carrying a puppy are seen around the park in Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 11, 2022. A monkey was spotted carrying a puppy around the park. The monkey also carried the puppy on its lap and was seen jumping from a tree's branches. Even though monkeys and dogs do not necessarily bond, a different animal friendly relationship was seen in Dhaka. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Monkeys sometimes have ‘pets’ like humans

Smallpox virus seen under microscope

Chilean mummies prove Europeans brought smallpox to the Americas

Two lead slingshot bullets inscribed with the initials CN and D with a ruler for size comparison

Roman soldiers pelted rebels with signed slingshot bullets

Martian butte surrounded by polygonal sediment formations

Curiosity rover spots ancient sea of Martian polygons

Microscopic image of fungi growing on underground roc

A vast world of rock-eating fungi lurks deep underneath the Great Lakes

Artist painting of an ichthyosaur eating a pterosaur with a kronosaurus lurking underneath it

40-foot-long Kronosaurus ate a 23-foot-long marine reptile who ate a pterosaur, fossil shows

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