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• Earth’s first major extinction event was worse than we thought and may have wiped out nearly 80% of species 550 million years ago
• An analysis of food remains found in pottery dating back 5,000 to 8,000 years is changing what we knew about prehistoric European cuisine
• Hubble captured a comet breaking apart in real time purely by chance, and the odds of seeing it happen at that exact moment were remarkably low
• Researchers have analyzed 136 weapons using carbon-14 dating and have been able to pinpoint exactly when the bow-and-arrow era began in North America
• They heated them to 900°C (1,652°F) for 8 hours, and something unexpected happened: the rice husks and palm fronds barely formed the dreaded “rocks” that clog boilers… and Colombia might have a more reliable rural fuel than we thought
• They found a giant tooth embedded in the neck of a plesiosaur, and the “culprit” was not a marine reptile, but a massive predatory fish
• The AI analyzed 1,974 unclassified tracks and raised some very troubling questions about the “bird tracks”
• El Niño could return as early as May through July 2026, and the latest official forecasts point to a possibility that has many experts on alert
• They tried to slow down the advance of the Sahara with millions of bees… and they “melted” at over 70 °C. However, the solution that works is not biology, but geometry on the ground
• A pesticide that has been in use for decades may be causing wild fish to age from the inside out, even at doses so low that they do not kill the fish immediately