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Fibonacci spiral overlaid on cactus blossom

Break out the calculators: November 23 is Fibonacci Sequence Day

Black and white photo of Shoshoni Infant in cradleboard

Indigenous women engineered energy-efficient baby carriers

Artist illustration of satellite above Earth's auroras monitoring the sun

Geomagnetic superstorm shrunk Earth’s protective plasmasphere

The center of the image has the brightest pixel, indicating where the comet is. The next brightest shades in the image indicate areas where the instrument detected atoms of hydrogen coming from the comet. This hydrogen is released when sunlight heats the comet, causing its water ice to turn directly into vapor. Once released into space, the water molecules break apart into oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

New NASA images confirm comet 3I/ATLAS is not aliens

By Andrew Paul, Laura Baisas

Drone carrying AED in midair

Drones are delivering life-saving defibrillators to 911 calls

Fossilized fish skull attached to fossilized digestive tract

Decapitated fish fossils depict Late Jurassic food chain

Front and back of Omega penny design

The U.S. Mint is auctioning the last pennies—and they could sell for millions

Man listening to headphones while writing at desk

Humans sync their blinks and brain waves to a song’s beat

Close up of glossy black wolf snake

Endangered Species

New wolf snake honors the late Steve Irwin

Close up of Calumma gallus chameleon. Males of Calumma gallus have a nasal appendage with distinct spines.

Endangered Species

No lie. The long-nosed Pinocchio chameleon is multiple species.

Close up of replica of silver goblet from Near East engraved with sun god

4,000-year-old silver goblet tells a tale of chaos and order

Parasite ant queen amid worker ants as they attack their own queen

Violent queen ant coup staged by parasitic ants

Man with his head down on his desk in front of laptop from stress

The 100 life decisions people dread most, according to psychologists

Scuba diver investigating propellor of WW2 aircraft crash underwater

80 years ago, a WWII B-17 bomber crashed in the Baltic. Scientists are finally learning who was onboard.

The frozen carcass of a 39,000-year-old female woolly mammoth named Yuka from the Siberian permafrost is displayed for an exhibition in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on July 12, 2013 at a press preview before the opening.

Oldest known RNA found in 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg

Microrobot capsule on tip of finger close up

These tiny robots swim through your blood to fight strokes

Glass openwork vessel excavated at Cologne dating to around 350–400 CE with an image of an inscription on the right. Inscription: BIBE MVLTIS ANNIS (Drink [may you live] for many years!). Credit: State Collection of Antiquities and Glyptothek, Munich. Photos by Christa Koppermann

Ancient Rome’s fanciest glasses are full of cryptic symbols

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers managed to capture the very early stage of the supernova when the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. Observing the breakout so early on — 26 hours after the supernova was first detected — revealed its true shape. The supernova broke out in an olive-like form. This marks the first ever observation of the shape of a supernova explosion at this very early stage.

Space Telescope

Newborn supernova spotted only hours after its explosive birth

Close up of Egyptian ceramic vessel with inscriptions

Opium may have been a daily habit for Ancient Egyptians

This artist’s impression shows a coronal mass ejection (CME) around another star.

A star unleashed a planet-destroying flare

hands holding forensic evidence slip in front of moss

Moss can be a key witness in murder investigations

Swedish silver medieval coins in a pile

Fisherman searching for worms finds 20,000 medieval silver coins

Comet 3I/ATLAS streaks across a dense star field in this image captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South at Cerro Pachón in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by NSF NOIRLab. This image is composed of exposures taken through four filters — red, green, blue and ultraviolet. As exposures are taken, the comet remains fixed in the center of the telescope’s field of view. However, the positions of the background stars change relative to the comet, causing them to appear as colorful streaks in the final image. See a version of the image where the stars have been “frozen” here. These observations of Comet 3I/ATLAS were conducted during a Shadow the Scientists program hosted by NSF NOIRLab. A full recording of the session can be found here.

3I/Atlas isn’t deep space aliens and didn’t ‘change color’

Dark lines of discolored dust on slopes of Martian mountain

On Mars, meteorites can cause miles-long dust slides

Neural implant sensor resting on grain of salt

This brain implant is smaller than a grain of rice

Various angles of fragmented human skull

Medieval duke’s remains recount his grisly murder

Close up of tree toad

Endangered Species

These toads don’t start as tadpoles

Artist illustration of two ESCAPADE satellites orbiting Mars

Meet Blue and Gold: NASA’s first twin satellites bound for Mars

Fragment of a Roman milestone erected along the road Via Nova in Jordan. Credit: Adam Pažout, Itiner-e.

Travel ancient Rome’s 186,000 miles of roads in new online atlas

Video screenshot of remoras attached to humpback whale

Ride on a humpback whale with little sucker fish

A warning sign is seen at the closed walking trail to the observatory in the Shirakawago district, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Japan deploys army to fight bears

V0015163ER Two hooded figures and a King grieve over a dead person whil Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Two hooded figures and a King grieve over a dead person while another masked figure comes to cleanse the room of the plague. Woodcut by V. Solis. Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Centuries of Black Death misinformation started with a poem

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the distant black hole referred to as J2245+3743, which in 2018, brightened dramatically to create the brightest black hole flare ever recorded, shining with the light of 10 trillion suns. This is likely the most massive star-shredding event (formally called a tidal disruption event or TDE) ever observed and one of only a few to have occurred in an active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is an active supermassive black hole "feeding" off material in a surrounding disk. The stunning flare was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), based at Caltech's Palomar Observatory, and the Caltech-led Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey.

Black hole unleashes brightest flare ever—brighter than 10 trillion suns

Seized ivory and rhino tusks photographed by law enforcement

Endangered Species

Endangered rhino horns and elephant tusks seized in California

A close-up photo of some dandelions, but the image is slightly distorted by digital artefacts.

Why we (probably) aren’t living in a computer simulation

Skeleton in grave in Iron Age Celtic tribe

Celtic women held power—and were sacrificed

P. Mikazuki Portuguese Man O'War

Portuguese Man O’War species honors ‘One-Eyed Dragon’ samurai

An orca swims next to a shark with a visible wound. Image by Marco Villegas.

Orcas are hunting young great white sharks for their livers

Eastern hellbender salamander underwater in river

Hellbender salamanders are huge—and in trouble

Bat flying down to attack a frog in rainforest pond

This tiny bat is one of the world’s deadliest hunters

Musket and cannonballs recovered in Scottish battlefield

18th century lead ammo found in Scottish Highlands

Four views of ochre fragment used by Neanderthals

Neanderthals used ‘crayons’ to color

Illustration of a pack of Nanotyrannus brazenly attacking a juvenile T. rex

This tiny T. rex is actually a new species

Muddy tire in pothole puddle anchored by bricks

New asphalt could make potholes extinct

Side-by-side of a coiled green mamba and a white llama

The secret ingredient in a snake antivenom? Llamas.

Screenshot of ROV video showing icefish nests on floor of Weddell Sea

The quest to find Shackleton’s ship uncovered an Antarctic mystery

CT scan displaying German sword blade with engraved name on it

Renaissance sword reveals a hidden engraving

Two close up shots of two tube-nosed bat species

Six new bat species discovered in the Philippines

Scan of hieroglyphs on Mayan Foundation Rock

Mystery Mayan ruler was no king

Back angle of man scratching head and looking at rows of TVs in electronics store

Your eyes can only handle so much HDTV

Awa Guajá couple, family of Takarentia, only contacted 5 days before this picture was taken, 1992.

Half of all uncontacted Indigenous tribes may disappear by 2036

Close up of solar flare on sun

Scientists prepare for the next Carrington Event

Skull of a soldier from the Napoleon army next to a button from a soldier's uniform.

The real killer of Napoleon’s army revealed by DNA testing

Roman skeletons in water well mass grave

Ancient Roman mass grave shows its army’s ethnic diversity

Mummy of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens with fossil preparator Tyler Keillor of the University of Chicago. The dinosaur mummy nicknamed “Ed Jr.,” was covered by floodwaters some 66 million years ago, preserving its fossilized skeleton and, in a thin clay layer, large areas of scaly, wrinkled skin and a tall fleshy crest over its back.

Dinosaur ‘mummies’ prove some dinos had hooves

In 3D the kissing number is 12, as illustrated by basketballs. Illustration: Kira Vesikko / Aalto University

Human outsmarts Google DeepMind AI, solving centuries-old ‘kissing problem’

Reconstructed image of the compact, fast-rotating asymmetric disc around β CMi. The white scale bar at the bottom right marks 1 milliarcsecond — equivalent to a 6 feet scale at the distance of the moon.

Astronomers’ telescope ‘hack’ uncovered a lopsided star

Butter is slowly melting in a frying pan

New recycling method turns Teflon into toothpaste fluoride

Close up of bearded dragon against black background

Reptile ‘pee crystals’ might help treat kidney stones and gout

Group of people speaking in conference room, out of focus image

Men speak with a vocal fry just as much as women

A red cusk-eel burrowed in among tubeworms at a methane seep off the coast of El Quisco in central Chile. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Tiny spider crabs snack on parasites from Chile’s favorite fish

French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris on October 19, 2025. Robbers broke in to the Louvre and fled with jewellery on October 19, 2025 morning, a source close to the case said, adding that its value was still being evaluated. A police source said an unknown number of thieves arrived on a scooter armed with small chainsaws and used a goods lift to reach the room they were targeting. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Why the Louvre heist doesn’t surprise museum security experts

Kidney transplant in container

Donor organ’s blood type altered for the first time

Big bison in the National Park on the shore of a lake or river

This national park uses helicopters for bison round-up duty

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