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April 6, 2026 at 3:19 AM

A colorful scientific chart showing the overlapping thermal performance curves of various species, including insects, fish, and plants, all following a similar bell-shaped path.

Scientists claim to have discovered a universal rule that “links” evolution and works in the same way in bacteria, plants, reptiles, fish, and insects

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April 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM

A digital illustration showing Earth’s blue magnetic field lines shielding the planet from solar wind while green vegetation represents oxygen production.

NASA detects a 500-million-year pattern between Earth’s magnetic “shield” and oxygen in the air… and the question posed by the article is crazy

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April 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM

A conceptual illustration of a DNA double helix transforming into a glowing candle, representing the genetic component of human lifespan.

Up to 50% of your lifespan is “determined” by genetics before you are born, according to the Weizmann Institute

By Kevin Montien

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April 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM

$For years, no one knew what those strange clay “chimneys” protruding from the ground in the Amazon were for, until a study published on February 23, 2026, came up with an answer that was as simple as it was brilliant$

For years, no one knew what those strange clay “chimneys” protruding from the ground in the Amazon were for, until a study published on February 23, 2026, came up with an answer that was as simple as it was brilliant

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April 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM

Earth’s “green heart” is drifting northeast, and scientists say the shift could reveal how climate change is reshaping life.

Scientists have discovered that Earth’s “green pole” has been shifting northeastward for decades and that, since 2010, this shift has accelerated much more than expected

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April 5, 2026 at 12:56 PM

An artist's impression of the LHS 1903 system showing a small red dwarf star orbited by two large, blue gaseous planets and two smaller, brownish rocky worlds in an unusual order.

Astronomers are amazed to discover an “inverted” system with four planets orbiting a red dwarf called LHS 1903 that does not fit the textbook model

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April 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Researchers extracting a vertical ice core sample from the frozen floor of a Romanian cave for microbial analysis.

A 5,000-year-old bacterium awakens from the ice in a cave in Romania, revealing something disturbing: it was already resistant to antibiotics still used today to treat serious infections

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April 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM

An ultraviolet camera capture showing faint electrical corona discharges glowing on the tips of sweetgum tree leaves during a thunderstorm.

What had been only a suspicion for nearly a century has just become reality: dozens of electrical flashes have been recorded in trees on the east coast of the United States that could be silently burning leaves

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April 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM

A composite image showing a total solar eclipse transitioning into an annular "ring of fire" eclipse against a dark starry background.

Goodbye to total eclipses: every year, the Moon moves a little further away… and the most visible consequence has a date

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April 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Rare gigantic jet lightning shooting upward from a thunderstorm toward space as seen from the International Space Station

NASA is once again highlighting an image taken on July 3, 2025, from the ISS that looks like something out of a movie: a “gigantic jet” that doesn’t fall to Earth, but instead shoots out of a storm and rises to a height of nearly 100 kilometers

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April 5, 2026 at 4:52 AM

A close-up of an iced diet soda glass next to a bowl of artificial sweetener packets on a wooden table.

You swap sugar for “zero” sweeteners thinking it’s better… and this study suggests an unexpected effect on memory

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April 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM

A deep-space composite image from the Hubble and Euclid telescopes showing the Perseus galaxy cluster, with a circle highlighting the faint star clusters of CDG-2.

The existence of an invisible galaxy has been confirmed for the first time: it is composed of 99.9% dark matter

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April 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM

A colorful diffusion MRI scan of a human brain showing the complex network of white matter fibers and neural pathways.

This explains why you change so much between the ages of 20 and 30: your brain is building internal highways

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April 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM

A digital recreation of a Neanderthal and a modern human standing side-by-side, representing the genetic blending of the two lineages.

It is possible that Neanderthals did not “die out”… they mixed with us until they became invisible

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April 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A high-resolution microscope image of T7 bacteriophages attacking an E. coli bacterium, representing the microgravity coevolution study.

Mutant organisms from space could solve the global antibiotic crisis

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April 4, 2026 at 10:15 AM

A high-resolution close-up of a dark, carbon-rich rocky sample from asteroid Bennu held in a NASA laboratory setting.

Samples from the asteroid Bennu force us to rethink the origin of life: NASA finds key compounds in rocks over 4.5 billion years old

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April 4, 2026 at 8:45 AM

An artist's depiction of GRB 250702B, showing a black hole at the center of a helium star emitting powerful, narrow jets of gamma radiation.

A gamma-ray burst kept astronomers on tenterhooks for 7 hours

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April 4, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Bright slope lineae on Mercury detected in NASA MESSENGER images, suggesting recent geological activity on the planet’s crater walls.

For decades, Mercury had been considered a “dead” planet, but a study has just changed that idea. NASA has detected bright structures that point to current geological activity

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April 4, 2026 at 4:08 AM

JOIDES Resolution research vessel at sea during the expedition that recovered the deepest mantle core ever drilled beneath the Atlantic Ocean

Scientists drill into the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and extract the deepest mantle core ever obtained at 4,160 feet