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Meteor crossing sky at dusk in Germany on March 8, 2026

A meteor soared across Europe—and possibly hit a house

Shattered clay container with 100s of gold coins scattered around it

A buried jar of imperial gold coins resurfaces in Russia

An artist's impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun, illuminating one side of the comet. On the side of the comet closer to the sun, the methanol gas is shown in blue, with icy dust grains still present in the gas. On the dark side of the comet, the hydrogen cyanide is shown in orange.

Space Telescope

3I/ATLAS comet is bursting with alcohol, surprising astronomers

A DIY Lego mechanical typewriter sitting on a desk

Man builds functional typewriter out of Lego bricks

Two photos next to each other. One is a man laying on grass next to longest snake in the world for scale reference. The other is a with portion of the world's longest snake draped over his shoulder in the jungle

Endangered Species

Longest snake ever measured is over 23.5 feet long

Ancient Mayan water filters stopped a lot—just not mercury poisoning

Minamitorishima island in Pacific Ocean seen from above

Japan eyes distant island for nuclear waste dump

pouring olive oil from glass bottle on grey background. close up

Physicists calculate exactly how long that last drop takes

A worker searches for evidence at Burr Oak Cemetery July 14, 2009 in Alsip, Illinois. Police recently closed the cemetery declaring the site a crime scene after human remains were found on the ground at various locations in the cemetery. Police suspect hundreds of graves could have been dug up in the historic black cemetery over the last several years and the bodies dumped elsewhere on the grounds in order for the gravesites to be resold by the cemetery management. Blues music legend Willie Dixon and civil rights figure Emmett Till are among those buried in the suburban Chicago cemetery. The First Lady's office confirms that Michelle Obama's father, Fraser Robinson, is also buried there. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Moss helped nab notorious grave-robbers

Close up of non-dairy cheese made with rice proteins in dish

Rice cheese may be the next big thing

Astronaut Loren J. Shriver, Mission Commander of STS-46, attempts to eat floating sweets on the flight deck of the shuttle Atlantis during its orbit of the earth, August 1992. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

Artemis II astronauts will eat a lot of tortillas on their trip to the moon

Illustration showing Tanyka amnicola in life, eating underwater plants.

Bizarro salamander ancestor was an evolutionary oddball

Man pointing with stick at chalkboard diagram of AM radio setup

Watch a classified FM radio training video from WW2

Aerial photograph of the excavation area for the new fire station building on Lohagenweg in Hüllhorst. The tree cover marks the course of the source stream, which formed the basis for the construction of the former farmstead. Photo: LWL-AfW / A. Koch

2,500-year-old settlement found during fire station construction

Microchip resting on man's hand next to syringe

Washington state moves to ban forced employee microchips

Screenshot of final boss from original Doom

Computer run on human brain cells learned to play ‘Doom’

Oval limestone with line etchings that likely represent a board game played in ancient Rome

Mystery stone is actually ancient Roman board game

Researchers holding smartphone up to computer monitor to test world's smallest QR code

World’s smallest QR code is thinner than a lightwave

Handing winding a series of brass gears that comprise an interplanetary clock device

What time is it on Mars? This analog ‘Interplanetary Clock’ can tell you.

Two dogs sitting in half open door looking curiously to the left

Dogs act like toddlers when trying to help humans

Hand pointing at DIY electric chessboard with bunches of wires underneath it

Man builds electrified chessboard that shocks players for bad moves

Close-up of aedes aegypti mosquito sucking blood from human skin, transmitting dangerous diseases like dengue fever, zika virus, and chikungunya, Chumphon in thailand.

Mosquitoes have been sucking our blood for 1.8 million years

Panamanian golden frog on leaves in forest

Endangered Species

Panama’s golden frogs beat extinction

Black and white photo of Iron Age mass grave bones in Serbia

One of Europe’s largest Iron Age mass graves contains mostly women and children

Nike yellow basketball shoes on parquet floor during basketball match of Ukrainian Superleague Parimatch SEASON 2020/21 BC "Kharkiv Sokoly» - MBC "Nikolaev", 31.01.2021, Ukraine, Kharkov, Palace of Sports "Lokomotiv"

Physics discovery explains why sneakers squeak

Interior of classic opera house

Color plays an unsung role in how we enjoy concerts

Lisbon, Portugal - September 24, 2021: TAP Air Portugal Airbus A330-900neo airplane at Lisbon airport (LIS) in Portugal.

Techno DJ jailed after selling 60,000 fake plane parts to major airlines

Crane placing final part of cross atop Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain

After 144 years, world’s tallest church finally finishes exterior

The Adorant figurine from Geißenklösterle Cave, approximately 38,000 years old, consists of a small ivory plate bearing an anthropomorphic figure and multiple sequences of notches and dots. The application of these marks suggests a notational system, most notably in the rows of dots on the back of the plate.

Earliest known writing dates back over 40,000 years

Satellite image of southern tip of Florida showing bright blue waters off west coast caused by winter storm weather

NASA spots Florida’s ocean waters changing color

Hands holding a camera that is housed inside a cigarette case

KGB cigarette pack spy camera still works (sort of)

A homemade cardboard box containing a Tetris game and four buttons

Man builds Tetris console inside cardboard box

Silicon Landscapes is a collage of circuit boards interwoven with aerial photographs of water treatment facilities, agricultural lands, industrial sites and mining machinery. It represents the resource-intensive material realities of AI systems transforming the natural landscapes through extractivist processes.

The Internet Archive records its 1 trillionth website

Left: An artist’s drawing of Earth’s magnetic field (blue lines) interacting with the Sun’s charged particles (yellow lines). The Earth’s magnetosphere (orange crescent) is created by Earth’s magnetic field. It deflects those particles like an umbrella. Right: NASA MMS mission observations like those volunteers would see while participating in the Space Umbrella project.

Help NASA prepare for the next solar storm disaster

Clay footprint in Scottish beach sand

Dog walkers find 2,000-year-old footprints on beach in Scotland

Spinosaurus mirabilis illustration

New dinosaur discovered in Sahara desert was a horned ‘hell heron’

Professional male musician creates new song for music album by playing synthesizer in studio. Top view at angle on head of bald man in headphones who sits at microphone and presses keys of synthesizer

Can’t stop humming that tune? Thank math.

Magnifying glass resting in open dictionary

Groovy! Dive into the world’s largest online slang dictionary

AI generated image of dogs walking through outdoor heated tunnel with red X across it

No, Hungary did not construct heated tunnels for its stray dogs

African striped mouse and pups

Biologists discover gene that may determine ‘good’ and ‘bad’ dads

Tiny Macintosh model computer built into toy novelty clock

Hobbyist builds retro Apple Macintosh inside toy clock

Artistic reconstruction of a Late Pleistocene cave lion overlooking Mount Fuji, Japan. Credit: Velizar Simeonovski

Prehistoric Japan was home to cave lions—not tigers

The Midnight sun over the icebergs in the Weddell Sea from the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.

Antarctica has a ‘gravity hole’

live black scorpion (Emperor Scorpion)

Deadly scorpions are picky about their soil

19th century Japanese coin in metal detectorist's hand

Metal detectorist finds 19th century Japanese coin in Australia

VAL D'ISERE FRANCE. 19-12-2010. Lindsey Vonn (USA) during the Super Giant Slalom section of the women's Super Combined race at the FIS Alpine skiing World Cup Val D'Isere France.

Downhill skiing’s biggest hurdle? Friction.

Example of paired images used during free-view eyetracking study. These image pairs focused on participant reactions to spider versus other arthropods – (A) spider versus butterfly, (B) spider versus insect, (C) spider eyes versus insect eyes, (D) spider versus non-spider arachnid, and (E) spider versus myriapod. We also included a paired image of (F) scorpion versus non-scorpion arachnid to gain insight into whether participants respond differently to spiders versus scorpions (e.g., d vs. f).

Psychologists made people look at spiders. They didn’t like it.

Close up of man's hand on chin while he's thinking

Humans really don’t need chins

These observations by NASA’s SPHEREx show the infrared light emitted by the dust, water, organic molecules, and carbon dioxide contained within comet 3I/ATLAS’s coma during the mission’s December 2025 campaign.

Space Telescope

Comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving the solar system with a dramatic light show

Stirling, Scotland - August 1, 2020, old medieval cemetery around Port of Menteith Parish Church

Medieval elite still received fancy burials despite disease stigma

Castle Geyser erupts with hot water and steam with pools of thermophilic bacteria and it's a cone geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States.

Yellowstone’s supervolcano is creating a 19-mile bulge

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

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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

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