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Illustration of future Earth from space with a single giant supercontinent surrounded by vast oceans

Earth already did it 200 million years ago… and it’s going to do it again: the supercontinent that could wipe humans off the map

April 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
An offshore drilling vessel operating in the Atlantic Ocean to extract core samples from the continental shelf.

An “underground sea” of fresh water has been discovered beneath the Atlantic Ocean, so large that it could supply New York City for 800 years

April 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A bright orange streak of light fragmenting as it slowly crosses the dark pre-dawn sky over Victoria, Australia.

A gigantic ball of light crossed the sky over Victoria, and it wasn’t a meteor

April 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Richard Feynman teaching in front of a blackboard during the era when he inspired the idea of extreme miniaturization

Richard Feynman, physicist and visionary, in 1959: “There is enough space on the head of a pin to fit the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica”

April 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Chicago Archaeopteryx fossil specimen showing preserved bones, feathers, and wing structure in limestone slab

An Archaeopteryx fossil dating back some 150 million years, hidden away for decades and reanalyzed using CT scans and ultraviolet light, has finally revealed a detail that could settle a scientific debate that has raged for more than 160 years over how bird flight began

April 8, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Close-up of a person using a nasal spray linked to research on a universal vaccine for respiratory infections and allergies

Goodbye to seasonal viruses as we know them: the first universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergies is now closer than ever

April 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Earth image with a scientific diagram showing deep mantle blobs linked to the planet's magnetic field stability

A study of the deep structures of the Earth’s mantle raises new questions about the future stability of the planet’s magnetic field

April 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Humanoid robot used for border control tasks in China near Vietnam crossing point

China tests humanoid robots for border control tasks with Vietnam

April 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Illustration of human and Neanderthal DNA comparison highlighting missing segments on the X chromosome

We carry Neanderthal DNA… except where it matters most

April 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Seismic imaging of tectonic plate breaking apart beneath Pacific Ocean near Cascadia subduction zone

For the first time, they “saw” a tectonic plate breaking apart under the Pacific, and what they found was not a crack, but an entire system

April 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A close-up photograph of a giant Theraphosa blondii tarantula on the rainforest floor with orange Cordyceps fungal stalks erupting from its joints.

An expedition discovers an infected giant tarantula, and the find is so rare that it has left scientists with a thousand questions

April 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
An archaeological excavation of a medieval Golden Horde mausoleum in Kazakhstan where elite Mongol DNA was recently discovered.

Human DNA reopens the last great mystery of Genghis Khan, and what scientists have discovered could change everything we thought we knew about his descendants

April 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
China’s 2-watt satellite laser transmits gigabit-speed data to an Earth telescope during a space-to-ground test

China has just achieved an extraordinary feat: a laser with a power output of just 2 watts has transmitted data at a speed of 1 gigabit per second from a distance of 36,705 kilometers to Earth

April 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM
A long-exposure photograph of the Milky Way stretching over the domes of the Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert.

The project that threatened one of Earth’s clearest skies has been canceled, and astronomers are celebrating because Paranal will no longer face its most feared invisible enemy

April 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A side-by-side comparison of a fossilized three-toed dinosaur footprint and a digital 3D mesh analysis generated by the DinoTracker AI.

An artificial intelligence application identifies dinosaur footprints with 90% accuracy… and may have found the footprints of the planet’s first birds, dating back 200 million years

April 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
An artist's concept of the LHS 1903 planetary system showing a red dwarf star orbited by four planets in an unusual, non-sequential order of rocky and gaseous worlds.

Astronomers discover a solar system 120 light-years away with two “Earths” and an arrangement so strange that it doesn’t fit any known formation model

April 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A 3D scientific simulation showing Earth's magnetic field being stretched by solar wind into a long tail that envelops the Moon.

The Moon could harbor a gigantic chemical archive of the early Earth

April 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
An artist's illustration of a towering Martian dust devil with faint, blue electrical spark discharges flickering within the swirling orange sand.

Lightning has been detected on Mars for the first time, and the Perseverance rover has captured something that seemed impossible

April 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A laboratory technician holding a petri dish containing a culture of drug-resistant Salmonella Typhi bacteria.

Typhoid fever seemed to be a thing of the past… but a “super strain” is learning to evade almost all antibiotics

April 6, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A cross-section diagram of Earth showing a hot mantle plume transporting metallic elements from the liquid outer core to the surface crust.

Geologists discover that the Earth’s core is leaking: it will release 1,000 tons of ancient gold

April 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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