Science

Copper Age shell beads recovered from a 5,000 year old female burial at the Montelirio tholos in Spain

270,000 seashells found in a 5,000-year-old female grave reveal what female power was like in the Copper Age, leaving scientists speechless

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February 11, 2026 at 11:48 AM

Five thousand years ago on a low plateau outside what is now Seville, someone poured…..

Close-up of Martian soil and rock texture tied to Perseverance’s cached samples as Mars Sample Return plans stall

The mission to bring Earth’s most valuable rocks from Mars is considered a failure, and now China could get there first with a return in 2031

Adrian Villellas
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February 11, 2026 at 11:42 AM

A few dozen metal tubes scattered across Mars may hold our best clues to past…..

Visualization of cosmic expansion explained by geometry without invoking dark energy

For 25 years, we believed that 70% of the universe was “dark energy”… but this new theory could prove that it was all a mistake

Sonia Ramírez
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February 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM

Dark energy, the invisible something that is supposed to make up about 70% of the…..

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket for Artemis II rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building toward Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center

NASA is already moving its giant rocket to platform 39B, and the manned return to the Moon begins with a 4-mile journey at walking pace

Adrian Villellas
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February 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM

NASA is already moving its giant rocket to platform 39B, and the manned return to…..

Distant baby galaxy Y1 forming stars at an extreme rate in the early universe, observed with the ALMA telescope

Astronomers discover a baby galaxy in turbo mode: it converts more than 180 “suns” of gas per year into new stars… while ours barely reaches 1

Adrian Villellas
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February 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Imagine a single galaxy giving birth to new suns at a pace 180 times faster…..

Hyper-realistic facial reconstruction of an Ice Age hunter-gatherer beside a frontal view of an ancient human skull.
Visualization of two electrons becoming quantum entangled over an ultrafast attosecond timescale

The surprise in physics: two electrons do not become entangled “all at once,” but rather the correlation forms first and then the temporal signature appears in the leak

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February 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM

For years, quantum entanglement was described as something that happens in an instant. Two particles…..

Craniofacial reconstruction on display at Hualongdong site museum in Anhui, China, based on a 300,000-year-old human fossil.

A “pre-sapiens” in China 300,000 years ago: a juvenile jawbone that blends archaic traits with nearly modern features

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February 10, 2026 at 9:35 AM

A 300,000-year-old jawbone from a cave in eastern China is quietly reshaping what scientists thought…..

Folded ancient rock layers in South Africa where researchers used AI to detect chemical traces linked to early microbial life.

They detected signs of microbes almost as old as the Earth

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February 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM

If you picked up a dull gray rock from a South African outcrop, would you…..

A bright orange nurse shark alongside a fishing boat off Costa Rica, documented as a rare pigment case linked to xanthism and possible albinism.

A nearly neon-orange nurse shark was accidentally caught off the coast of Costa Rica, and scientists believe it may be the first documented case involving a “double” pigment change

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February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM

A group of sport fishers off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast thought they had hooked a…..

Mobility

Car security device linked to illegal key programming under California vehicle theft law

What many people install to protect their cars can now result in fines of $1,000 or even arrests

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February 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Drivers in California now face jail time and fines if they are caught with certain high-tech devices…..

A TSA officer helps travelers at an airport security checkpoint, highlighting new ID rules and a ConfirmID fee for passengers without REAL ID.

The TSA has just introduced a surprise fee that no one expected: this is what you will have to pay if you do not have a Real ID or passport

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February 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Starting February 1, 2026, air travelers in the United States who show up at security without a…..

Economy

Kaiser Permanente marketing text settlement approved in Miami-Dade County court, shown with gavel and Eleventh Judicial Circuit seal.

If you have received this message, you may be entitled to receive up to $75 for each text message, and the deadline to file a claim is February 12, 2026

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February 11, 2026 at 5:44 AM

If your phone has ever buzzed again and again with marketing messages after you typed…..

Scientific paper images flagged for manipulation in NIH funded cancer research investigations

A scientific “detective” from the United Kingdom has uncovered manipulated images in articles financed with public funds, and the United States is already recovering millions of dollars

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February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM

A British biologist who spent his evenings scrutinizing cancer papers on a laptop has just…..

President Donald Trump gestures in the Oval Office amid questions about $2,000 tariff dividend checks

First he promised it with great fanfare, NOW he says it wasn’t him: Trump forgets his own plan to send $2,000 checks directly, leaving millions of people waiting

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February 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM

Americans hearing about $2,000 “tariff dividend” checks could be forgiven for feeling whiplash. In November…..

Mega Millions winning numbers beside a North Carolina Lottery ticket, as a prize is held up over a Social Security number debt mix-up.

A man wins Mega Millions, but his prize is withheld due to a debt that never existed because someone used his Social Security number

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February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Winning the lottery is supposed to be simple. You check your ticket, claim your prize,…..

New York City skyline with Central Park in autumn, as the city announces a major housing settlement forcing repairs across boroughs
A cargo ship escorted by tugboats moves through a canal channel with a bridge in the background.

The Panama Canal is forgotten: a new interoceanic corridor opens that will change global trade

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February 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM

When water runs low in Panama, the whole world feels it. The Panama Canal handles…..

Screenshot of the IRS website showing the IRS logo and a page headline about doing more with an IRS account.

Stimulus checks in February 2026 are still a rumor, and here’s what the IRS actually says

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February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM

Social media posts and chain emails are once again claiming “new stimulus checks” are landing…..

A hillside vineyard in Virginia with rows of grapevines and winery buildings, representing small farm wineries facing new rules.

A recently-passed law in Virginia could bankrupt small artisanal wineries that have been growing grapes and making unique wines in mountainous terrain for decades

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February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM

A law meant to keep Virginia wine truly Virginian is now sending ripples through the…..

IRS website shown as tax deadline penalties of up to 680 dollars begin after missed January filing cutoff

The IRS begins imposing penalties: millions of people face fines of up to $680 for ignoring the IRS deadline

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February 4, 2026 at 1:18 PM

The end of January information return deadline has now passed, and the clock is already…..

Two neighbors talk by a backyard fence near a garden, illustrating how a simple favor can trigger an unexpected property tax reassessment.

What started as a favor between neighbors ended with a tax bill and an unexpected fiscal nightmare

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February 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM

The letter looked ordinary. A white envelope, the tax office logo, a few formal lines……

Environment

Chestnut mining bee (Andrena rehni) held between a biologist’s berry-stained fingers in Syracuse, New York.

A biologist gets her fingers stained with berry juice… and accidentally discovers a species of bee that was believed to have been extinct in the region since 1904

Kevin Montien
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February 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Last summer, a scientist walking through a campus orchard in Syracuse noticed a small, plain…..

Fernandina Island giant tortoise rediscovered alive in the Galápagos after being declared extinct

A giant tortoise, extinct for over a century, has reappeared alive after several failed expeditions, reviving a historic plan to save the species, a symbol of evolution

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February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM

A giant tortoise that scientists once filed under “extinct for more than a century” has…..

Glowing lava flows into the ocean during an ocean island eruption, illustrating how deep mantle processes can fuel volcanism and release CO2.

Your continent could be feeding a volcano in the middle of the ocean… and you didn’t even know it

Kevin Montien
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February 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM

When a continent breaks apart, at the surface we see oceans that open very slowly……

Gray wolf walking through snow near an abandoned building in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Chernobyl, 40 years later: mutant wolves are found surviving by feeding on radioactive prey… and resisting cancer like no other mammal

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February 9, 2026 at 3:22 PM

Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster, gray wolves are still roaming the exclusion zone,…..

A radar-linked view of Greenland’s ice sheet with an inset photo of Camp Century, the Cold War base buried deep under the ice.

Radar has uncovered a secret Cold War base buried beneath 30 meters of ice in Greenland, and the most unsettling part is what was left trapped down there

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February 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A routine research flight over Greenland has turned up an unexpected reminder of the Cold…..

Shanghai skyline at sunset on the Huangpu River, a coastal megacity facing land subsidence linked to groundwater pumping.

Shanghai should have sunk years ago… but something invisible keeps it afloat: the secret lies 1,000 meters beneath your feet and has to do with oil wells and recycled water

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February 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM

From California’s coast to the banks of the Yangtze, engineers are trying something that sounds…..

Fresh lava flow from Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano where microbes appear within hours after cooling

Scientists capture for the first time how life returns to “hell”: microbes appear hours after an eruption, and no one understands how they survive

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February 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM

When a volcano erupts, it seems like nothing could survive in the path of the…..

Aerial view of a large waste-to-energy incineration plant in China surrounded by green hills and nearby facilities.

China has built more than 1,000 waste incineration plants and now lacks enough waste to feed them, so in 2026 it will begin excavating landfills as if they were fuel mines

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February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM

In China, many of the trash burning power plants that once seemed like an easy…..