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Gold coins spill from a rusty container in a freshly plowed Kentucky field as a farmer searches nearby.

An anonymous farmer in Kentucky goes out to check his freshly plowed field and ends up with more than 800 Civil War coins valued at over $3 million

January 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Student archaeologist documents a red-ochre burial pit linked to a 5,400-year-old amber grave near Lake Onega, Russia.

A student picks up a fragment of fossilized resin, and suddenly invisible trade routes that crossed half of Europe 5,400 years ago appear

January 21, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Worker loads fried chicken into trays at Frenchy’s in Houston, where two locations were recently deauthorized

Goodbye to the chicken combo: two locations of a popular fast food chain in Houston are closing permanently for failing to meet standards, but the real problem may lie elsewhere on the menu

January 21, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Thousands of small orange-and-black bumblebee catfish cluster and inch up wet rock beside a waterfall in Brazil.

It was first spotted by environmental police, and a week later science arrived. The video of orange-and-black fish climbing wet rock is already being called a historic discovery

January 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Neolithic lakeside villagers work near a fire and hut while preparing tools and materials, illustrating birch bark tar use in daily life.

The black “chewing gum” that appeared in Neolithic villages concealed something unexpected, and scientists have finally managed to decipher it

January 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Researcher uses a laptop in a grassy field while a utility vehicle and equipment sit in the background

Beneath the lawns in your neighborhood and cornfields lies a gigantic carbon “bank,” and a new study suggests that in some soils, it is emptying ten times faster than previously assumed

January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Satellite orbits above Arctic sea ice, illustrating Earth observation used to track magnetic north drift

They detected that the magnetic North Pole has crossed an invisible “border” in the Arctic, and the question is no longer whether it is moving, but what will happen when the “north” ceases to seem like a stable concept

January 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
FDA sign outside the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as recall alert targets Ziac blood pressure tablets

The FDA is recalling a major and popular blood pressure medication after a factory error added a suspicious ingredient that should not have been there

January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Geologists examine drill core samples from the Wangu gold field in Hunan, China

China drills beneath the Wangu gold field and discovers a “treasure” of more than 1,000 tons that could be hidden 3,000 meters underground

January 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Two U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly in formation at dusk

A blue laser was aimed at F-16 pilots during a nighttime approach to Spangdahlem, and German police are now investigating who came within inches of causing a tragedy

January 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter flying over the ocean during carrier operations

Two United States Navy aircraft plunged into the sea within just 30 minutes off an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, setting off alarm bells

January 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Illustration of a woolly mammoth standing on Arctic ice, symbolizing a study that reclassified “young mammoth” bones as whales.

The story seemed perfect: for 70 years, these vertebrae were touted as the “youngest mammoth” in Alaska, and the twist comes when science decides to review them from scratch

January 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Massive offshore wind turbine being installed at sea near Hainan, with other turbines visible in the distance.

China has brought a giant offshore wind turbine of up to 20 MW online off the coast of Hainan, and the debate is not just about energy but about what may be changing in the air around it

January 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
An F-35A stealth fighter sits on a wet runway in cold conditions, photographed during a military training deployment.

The Netherlands has sent 12 F-35 jets to the United States for realistic NATO war training amid rising global tensions

January 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Aerial view of a California apartment complex with large rooftop solar arrays covering multiple flat buildings.

The California Supreme Court has reopened the rooftop solar fight, leaving uncertainty over whether NEM 3.0 credit cuts will survive the next legal challenge

January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Workers in protective suits stand in a flooded facility, using tools to clean up standing water after a coastal flood or storm surge.

A national map identifies 5,500 “hot spots” along the US coastline, and the danger is not the water itself, but what the water can carry with it

January 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A transit stop with a green sculptural structure and a modular terracotta cooling brick shown in an inset, designed to cool air during heatwaves.

The brick that promises to cool down a bus stop in the middle of a heatwave without plugs and with a trick so simple it’s surprising

January 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A volunteer lies on an MRI table with a head coil in place while researchers stand nearby, preparing a high-field brain scan experiment.

They placed 56 volunteers in a virtual reality environment inside the scanner and detected a gradual change in the hippocampus that could explain that sudden feeling of confusion when you get lost on a street you know well

January 19, 2026 at 8:00 AM
“People and vehicles gather beside a deep ground fissure that ripped across a road in Kenya, part of the East African Rift zone.”

Africa is splitting in two in slow motion, and geologists have found the crack where a new ocean is being born

January 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Two workers walk beside a massive pile of used tires repurposed for rubber-modified asphalt roads

Mountains of tires become “black gold” for roads: rubber-coated asphalt promises greater durability and less noise, but raises environmental concerns

January 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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