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Fossilized vertebrae of Palaeophis colossaeus, a giant extinct marine snake, shown alongside a modern sea snake bone for scale comparison.

In 2018, giant vertebrae were found, and now science boldly reveals that 56 million years ago there was a sea serpent over 12 meters long capable of swallowing sharks

March 28, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Artist’s illustration of two planets colliding in space and blasting fiery debris

It is believed that a violent collision between two planets located 11,000 light-years away has created a gigantic dust cloud… and astronomers believe they have witnessed it almost in real time

March 28, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Ancient human bones from Poland used in isotope analysis to reconstruct diet and track the rise of millet

3,000 years of diet in Poland reconstructed bone by bone, and the turning point comes when millet appears

March 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Fossil remains of an ancient rhinoceros discovered on Devon Island in the High Arctic

A 23-million-year-old “polar rhino” has been discovered in the far north of Canada, and the find is rewriting its migratory routes

March 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Underwater view of clustered fish nests on the Antarctic seafloor in the Weddell Sea

Thousands of nests under the Antarctic ice, and no one had seen them

March 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A high-resolution LiDAR digital terrain model of the hills near Córdoba, showing the rectangular outlines of a buried medieval city.

For centuries, it was just a legend of Al-Andalus, but now a LiDAR scanner is pointing toward Córdoba for the first time and suggesting that the lost city of Almanzor could be located here

March 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
School of blue fish with yellow tails swimming in open ocean, illustrating the marine life now threatened by long-term ocean warming

A study conducted between 1993 and 2021 on 33,000 fish populations raises a very serious warning: for every 0.1°C of ocean warming per decade, marine life declines by 7.2%, and scientists are already talking about a “surprising and deeply worrying” loss

March 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM
View of the Strait of Gibraltar, the narrow waterway between Spain and Morocco now at the center of a study about future subduction

The Strait of Gibraltar is about to disappear

March 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Fresh yam tubers with rough brown skin and sliced white flesh

The tuber that millions of people have been eating for centuries and that is now attracting the interest of scientists due to its potential effects on memory and blood sugar levels

March 27, 2026 at 4:39 AM
A conceptual visualization of an Einstein-Rosen bridge as a mirror-image connection between two opposing arrows of time in curved spacetime.

Wormholes are not shortcuts through the universe, but bridges between the future and the past

March 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A view inside the 35-meter-long Ice Memory sanctuary, a snow-carved vault in Antarctica containing rows of archived mountain ice cores.

They dig a “cave” under the snow in Antarctica and create a natural refrigerator at -50 °C that could preserve the Earth’s climate for centuries

March 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Neuroscientist Louisa Nicola explaining the physiological benefits of frequent movement breaks and squats for brain health and glucose control.

Louisa Nicola, neuroscientist: “Doing 10 jump squats every hour exceeds the benefits of a 30-minute brisk walk”

March 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A healthy elderly person enjoying a balanced meal containing a variety of protein sources and vegetables.

A study suggests that people who eat meat are more likely to live to 100… but there is a big “but” that almost no one mentions

March 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
A specialized hot-water drill system and sediment coring rig positioned on the vast, flat expanse of the Crary Ice Rise in West Antarctica.

They drill through 1,716 feet of ice with water at 167 °F and lower a drill bit to recover sediments that could originate from ice-free periods in Antarctica

March 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A high-resolution macro photograph of a Hallucigenia fossil from the Burgess Shale, showing its signature spikes and tubular body.

The specimen they described in 1977 returns to the scene almost 50 years later and solves the mystery of the diet of the ocean’s strangest creature

March 25, 2026 at 6:30 AM
NASA Artemis II astronauts standing beside the Orion spacecraft during mission preparations for the crewed flight around the Moon

NASA is once again “flying around the Moon” with four astronauts and a 10-day mission, the first dress rehearsal since 1972, putting Artemis III in the spotlight

March 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Golden sea silk fibers resting in a person’s hand, illustrating the rare marine material recreated by researchers in South Korea

South Korea recovers sea silk reserved for emperors and reveals why its golden sheen can last for centuries without fading

March 24, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Scientists identify OTULIN as a key switch in brain aging, showing it can shut down tau linked to Alzheimer’s disease

The master switch of brain aging has just been discovered: a protein called OTULIN which, when activated, causes the tau protein (the nightmare of Alzheimer’s) to collapse like dominoes

March 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Cup of black coffee on a white saucer, illustrating the debate over drinking caffeine immediately after waking up

If you are someone who drinks coffee as soon as you open your eyes, be careful with this: cortisol levels skyrocket in the first 30 to 60 minutes, and caffeine can cause you to feel a “strange euphoria”

March 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Ancient human footprints preserved in sediment at White Sands National Park, the controversial tracks dated to roughly 21,000 to 23,000 years ago

These human footprints found in the desert of the United States are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old and are generating considerable controversy among archaeologists

March 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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