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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

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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

By Kevin Montien

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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April 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Preserved squid specimen identified as Mobydickia poseidonii, a new squid family discovered from a sperm whale stomach sample

It all began with a strange, squid-like mass found in the stomach of a sperm whale in 1955 and 1956, and decades later, scientists discovered that it was something far stranger than anyone could have imagined

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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