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View from the Ice Age base camp of Shég' Xdaltth'í' over the Tanana Flats in interior Alaska

On a ridge above Alaska’s Tanana River, archaeologists recovered more than 80,000 objects from a 13,800-year-old Ice Age base camp, and its diamond-shaped stone points match ones found in Siberia

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October 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Electric car plugged into a Rheinmetall curb charger set into the curb beside a paved sidewalk

Cologne tested a curb charger that hides a 22-kilowatt EV socket inside a standard-size curbstone, logging 2,829 charging sessions with over 99 percent availability, and installation still cost about the same as a charging post

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October 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Ruins of the West House at Triangle Square in Akrotiri, Santorini, where a Bronze Age toilet survives on the upper floor

On Santorini, a Bronze Age toilet about 3,600 years old survives on the upper floor of Akrotiri’s West House, and its clay pipes once carried waste to a sewer beneath the town’s streets

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October 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Elephant carcass bones and dried skin on a bare patch of savanna, photographed by study lead author Courtney Reed

In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, an elephant carcass can push soil ammonium to nearly 3,000 times nearby levels, and the biodiversity coldspot it creates is still there nearly 8 years later

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October 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Ice flowing from the Transantarctic Mountains, where geologists link buried mountain roots to the Cambrian explosion

Around Antarctica, 1,712 zircon crystals drilled from the seafloor point to Himalayan-style mountains now buried under the ice, and two geologists say their erosion may have helped set the stage for the Cambrian explosion

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October 17, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Artist's concept of NASA's SR-1 Freedom nuclear-powered spacecraft cruising past Mars with its reactor at the end of a long truss

NASA wants to send a spacecraft equipped with a nuclear reactor and three helicopters to Mars to search for underground water, while also preparing future landing sites for humans

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October 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Roman gold coins from the Holzthum hoard in Luxembourg laid out in a row

Two amateur archaeologists found 141 Roman gold coins in a field in Luxembourg, and beneath them, they also discovered a fortification that had been buried for more than 1,600 years

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October 16, 2026 at 6:29 PM
A Swan galaxias, a small native Tasmanian fish, held in a hand

Tasmania introduced the European trout into its rivers in 1865, and 161 years later, a small native fish survives only in the few streams that its descendants have not yet been able to reach

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October 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The SS United States docked in Mobile, Alabama, after remediation, before Okaloosa County sinks the liner as an artificial reef

Florida plans to sink the legendary 302-meter SS United States in November 2026 to create the world’s largest artificial reef, and the operation will cost millions of dollars

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October 16, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Artist's impression of the Hera spacecraft flying between the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos

ESA’s Hera spacecraft, flying at more than 26,800 mph, was scheduled to fire three thrusters for 93 minutes to brake toward the asteroids NASA’s DART hit in 2022, and a second burn follows October 22

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October 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Global seafloor map from SWOT satellite data showing ocean floor features

A UFO hunter claims to have found an alien base 10 miles below the ocean’s surface, off the coast of South Australia, but NOAA explains why those giant lines may not actually exist

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October 16, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Solar flares erupting from the Sun in May 2024, ahead of the next big solar storm

NOAA says the next big solar storm could reach Earth in as little as 15 to 18 hours and warns one as strong as May 2024’s G5 could cause a power blackout

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October 16, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Arsia Mons cloud stretching west from the volcano across Mars, seen by ESA's Mars Express

Mars’s Arsia Mons cloud stretches up to 1,100 miles from a 12-mile-high volcano every morning for months, and scientists think its ice forms without dust, a process never seen in a planetary atmosphere

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October 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Bronze Age folding chair from Vamdrup, Denmark, on display

In a Danish burial mound in 1891, archaeologists found a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age folding chair, the only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe, and its finder wondered if it was a table

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October 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
World map drawn in the Equal Earth projection, which shows countries at their true relative size

UN members voted 164 to 1 to encourage the Equal Earth projection, where Brazil looks nearly four times the size of Greenland, a shift Latin American geographers say gives their region new visibility

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October 15, 2026 at 12:32 PM
NASA map of greening in China and India, showing the increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017

Scientists in Nanjing simulated greening in China and India, which together account for nearly one-third of Earth’s added leaf area, and the model shows it cooling western Eurasia while northern North America warms

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October 15, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Wind turbine with two red stripes on one blade at the Umoya Energy Wind Farm near Hopefield, South Africa, with a bird flying close to the striped blade

A wind farm in Hopefield, South Africa, painted two red stripes on one blade of four turbines, and a preprint not yet peer reviewed estimates bird deaths at those turbines fell a median 83 percent

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October 15, 2026 at 5:12 AM
TVA's Mike Skaggs and the NRC's Jeremy Bowen hold the framed small modular reactor construction permit certificate for Clinch River Nuclear Unit 1

The Tennessee Valley Authority has an NRC permit to build the first U.S. commercial small modular reactor, a 300-megawatt unit at Clinch River in Oak Ridge, and it still needs a separate operating license

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October 15, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Hull of the Mithridates warship on the seabed off Phanagoria in the Black Sea

Scientists studying a 2,000-year-old Mithridates warship sunk off Phanagoria in the Black Sea tested 22 nails and a 34-pound bronze ram, and found builders paid for copper over cheaper iron to keep it sailing

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October 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Shells of the new snail species Cochlostoma komarnica and C. dobrido from Montenegro

Volunteers and scientists found two new snail species in Montenegro with shells about a quarter inch long and a door on the tail, and one lives in a canyon a planned 561-foot dam would flood

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October 14, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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