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Naked mole-rat queen with pups in a colony setting, illustrating reproduction and social structure.

Naked mole-rat queens are famous for bloody power struggles, but new research shows they can also transfer power peacefully when a colony changes from within

May 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Geothermal steam rising over a rocky landscape, illustrating research on hidden magma beneath Tuscany.

Scientists have found 6,000 cubic kilometers of magma beneath Tuscany, a Yellowstone-scale reservoir hidden under one of Europe’s calmest-looking landscapes

May 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Illustration of Earth’s magnetic field transferring atmospheric particles toward the Moon

The Earth may have been “fertilizing” the Moon for billions of years, and one study suggests that the magnetic field may have acted as a highway for key elements

May 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Aerial view of Mars terrain showing a shelf-like formation linked to a possible ancient northern ocean

A ‘bathtub ring’ on Mars may be the strongest clue yet that an ancient ocean once covered a third of the Red Planet

May 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Illustration of asteroid Apophis during its close flyby of Earth scheduled for April 2029

NASA says the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid will pass closer than many satellites in 2029, and the rare flyby will be visible without a telescope

May 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Ancient clay tablet with cuneiform writing, similar to the tablets decoded in Denmark’s Hidden Treasures project.

A 4,000-year-old object stored in Denmark may preserve one of humanity’s earliest written traces of everyday administration, and its silence lasted millennia

May 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Blue rod-shaped bacteria floating in a dark microscopic scene, representing synthetic mirror bacteria research.

Scientists warn that synthetic mirror bacteria could slip past natural defenses, and the threat is not a virus but a form of life built backwards

May 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Visualization of galaxy clusters used in the largest cosmic gravity test supporting Einstein’s theory of gravity

The largest gravity test ever carried out has confirmed Newton and Einstein on cosmic scales, leaving alternative theories with less room to hide

May 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Golden retriever involved in a genetics study linking canine emotional traits to human-related genes

A genetic study of 1,343 golden retrievers has found genes tied to emotions that also appear in humans, suggesting dogs may share more of our inner world than expected

May 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Interior view of the STAR detector at Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, used to study high-energy particle collisions.

What looked like nothing in quantum physics has produced detectable particles, and the vacuum may no longer be the empty stage we imagined

May 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Artistic illustration showing how the Eos molecular cloud might appear in the night sky if it were visible.

Scientists explored the edge of the solar system and found a strange bright structure no one had seen before, opening a new mystery close to home

May 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Large three-toed dinosaur footprint exposed in limestone after flooding near Sandy Creek in Central Texas.

A storm in the United States tore open the ground and exposed 15 treasures hidden for more than 100 million years

May 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Medieval human remains excavated near the Dolmen of Menga in southern Spain for ancient DNA research.

DNA solves the mystery of medieval people found in a Spanish Stone Age site, proving that the oldest layer of a place was not the whole story

May 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Microscopic close-up of uterine and placental cells linked to a newly identified pregnancy cell type.

Scientists discover a new type of human cell that appears only at one moment in life, and no one yet knows exactly what it does

May 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Fossilized dinosaur eggs preserved in the Sainte-Victoire reserve in southern France.

A prehistoric treasure has resurfaced in France: 500 dinosaur eggs that spent 70 million years hidden are now rewriting a vanished nesting ground

May 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Visualization of quantum particles and lambda hyperons emerging from the vacuum during high-energy proton collisions

Scientists detect particles emerging from the vacuum for the first time, and the result turns empty space into something far stranger than nothing

May 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Illustration of black holes and gravitational waves linked to the newly detected forbidden mass gap in space

Scientists have detected a forbidden zone in space where planets should not behave this way, and the discovery changes what we thought about how worlds are born

May 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Visualization of an eta prime meson interacting inside an atomic nucleus during a particle physics experiment

Physicists have found the first signs of an exotic η′-mesic nucleus, a state of matter that could help explain where mass really comes from

May 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Satellite radar visualization linked to alleged underground structures beneath the Pyramid of Khafre in Giza

A satellite radar study claims vast hidden structures lie beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza, and the finding is already challenging one of archaeology’s most guarded monuments

May 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Ancient Ediacaran fossil impressions from the Avalon biota preserved in Newfoundland rock formations

An exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old site suggests the Avalon biota lasted longer than scientists believed, changing the timeline of Earth’s earliest complex life

May 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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