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Black and white photo of ice-covered lookout post called Hurricane Hill in Olympic National Park

National Park Service’s WWII series highlights Washington State nature reserve

Neolithic human skull with evidence of cannibalism from Spain

Cannibalism returned to the menu multiple times in Neolithic Europe

Multiple eggs laid in a pattern on a colorful background.

How the lowly egg could help protect future spacecraft

A Graneledone octopus, a suspected new species, moves across the seafloor during a deep-sea ocean expedition off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago. This species was first observed during an expedition Dr. Diva Amon (SpeSeas) participated in 2014, but was not confirmed or collected until this mission. Researchers made dozens of other discoveries on the trip, including at least 20 suspected new species, three of which may be new genera.

11 vibrant deep-sea creatures shine in new Caribbean expedition

Artist illustration of American cheetah hunting a horse in mountain landscape

Ancient American cheetahs were not exactly cheetah-like

Scotty the T. rex slowly decomposed in a salty marsh, which allowed for unprecedented preservation.

Fossilized tissue reveals largest known T. rex died from broken rib

A digital scan of copper alloy ring theorized to have ties to a man named Pilate next to a sketch of the ring's details

Ancient ring supposedly tied to Pontius Pilate may include a typo

Image of NGC 7253, which features two spiral galaxies colliding into one another

High school students spot two spiral galaxies colliding in Hawaiian constellation

A 3D LIDAR scan of the interior of a cafe bathroom in New York City

Restroom Archive gives public bathrooms their due

Front and back of 1894 Barber Dime

One of the rarest dimes in the U.S. sells for $1.25 million

Woman resting in pool with arms crossed to show smartwatch

Fitness & Exercise

Your smartwatch may be overestimating calories burned by 25 percent

This frame grab from an AFP TV video shows a small female black bear tranquillized on the ground as wild bear experts Akiko Takii (R) and Shinshu University professor Shigeyuki Izumiyama collect blood and fur samples for academic research in Ina, Nagano Prefecture, on July 14, 2026, before the researchers weigh and measure the bear, believed to be about 18 months old, before releasing it back into the wild. The process of trapping, tagging and releasing the animals is part of a pioneering management plan launched in 1995, as authorities realised the bear population was shrinking in the mountainous region in the centre of Japan's Honshu island. And it is becoming part of a model of coexistence in the region that some experts believe is an alternative to the dominant practice of culling the animals in an effort to prevent attacks. (Photo by Harumi OZAWA / AFP) / To go with AFP story Japan-animal-bears, FEATURE by Harumi Ozawa

Japan’s continuing bear problems can’t be solved by culling alone

3D reconstruction of the Sabazios vase piece, which is 160mm long. Credit: Universitat de Girona

Two-headed snake pottery suggests ancient Roman mystery cult spanned over 2,000 miles

HONOLULU, HI - JULY 05: General views of the USS Arizona Memorial at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial on July 05, 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

National Parks commemorate ties to WWII ahead of 85th Pearl Harbor anniversary

Rainbow Serpent head depicted with white paint on Aboriginal rock wall art

Rainbow Serpent rock art grew larger as Europeans colonized Aboriginal Australia

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.

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