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Underwater remains of the Gran Carro Iron Age settlement in Lake Bolsena where archaeologists uncovered the first textile fragment in more than 60 years.

Archaeologists recovered a piece of ancient fabric from Gran Carro, an underwater settlement in Italy, among the remains of a domestic loom submerged for thousands of years

August 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Artist's impression of the rocky exoplanet LHS 1140 b orbiting its red dwarf star with an extended atmosphere.

Astronomers found helium in the atmosphere of LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years from Earth, the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet orbiting another star

August 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Andean cock-of-the-rock, one of the passerine birds included in an AI-powered study of skeletal evolution.

An AI analyzed 170,000 bird bones from more than 2,000 species, and the result pushes Darwin’s idea one step further

July 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM
NASA satellite image captured on May 15, 2026, showing the underwater volcanic eruption in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.

NASA satellites caught an underwater eruption in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea that could raise a new island, though the tremors have been fading since June

July 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A physical model illustrating the kagome lattice structure found in the newly identified superconducting materials.

The search for room-temperature superconductors just got a huge boost from artificial intelligence, help that could speed up one of physics’ hardest dreams

July 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Rare white cave pearls discovered inside Thang Cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam.

Explorers discovered a cave in Vietnam with rare cave pearls, delicate natural formations that look like jewels made by darkness and water

July 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Close-up of giant sauropod dinosaur footprints at the rediscovered Saijrakh tracksite in northern Mongolia, with a researcher for scale.

Giant footprints in Mongolia are shaking up what we knew about dinosaurs, because their size and shape tell a story that does not fit neatly into the old picture

July 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
The 1,300-year-old wooden skis recovered from the Digervarden ice patch in Norway.

Melting ice in Norway revealed 1,300-year-old skis in remarkable condition, an icy window into how people moved through high mountains centuries ago

July 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Archaeological remains of ancient Ambracia in modern Arta, Greece, where the Roman siege took place in 189 BCE.

The Greek city of Ambracia resisted a Roman siege using the first known use of poison gas, an ancient story that sounds way too modern

July 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Museum reconstruction of a Neanderthal family with an infant, illustrating research on the rapid early growth of Neanderthal babies.

Neanderthal babies were absolute units, according to a new study that changes how we imagine our most famous human relatives from the very start of life

July 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
A deep-sea organism is scanned with a laser imaging system aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's ROV during the discovery of new species in the South Atlantic.

In one of the least explored parts of Earth, scientists found life forms that look like they came from another planet, a sharp reminder of how little we know about the deep ocean

July 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
ESA Swarm satellites measure Earth's magnetic field, helping scientists detect changes in liquid iron flow inside the planet's outer core.

New data on liquid iron in Earth’s core suggests stranger internal movements than expected, as if the planet were hiding deep machinery we are only beginning to understand

July 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Emergency crews recover suspected rocket debris from Forrest Beach in Queensland following a recent atmospheric reentry.

Metallic space balls appeared on an Australian beach, leaving a movie-like question behind: what fell from the sky and why did it end up in the sand?

July 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A temporary mud island emerged off the coast of Palo Seco, Trinidad, after powerful earthquakes struck nearby Venezuela.

Scientists discovered a mud volcano off Trinidad formed by earthquakes in Venezuela, a structure born from shaking that shows how the seafloor also keeps fresh scars

July 25, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Lower-jaw fragments and isolated teeth of Masripithecus moghraensis next to an Egyptian one-pound coin for scale.

A new scientific discovery has opened a rare window into Earth’s deep past, showing that ancient clues can still shake up what we thought we knew

July 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Fossil of the Ordovician crinoid Dendrocrinus simcoensis showing arms, stalk, and rare pyritized tube feet preserved in dark shale.

Paleontologists announced a soft-tissue discovery millions of years old, a rare find because these delicate remains usually disappear long before anyone can study them

July 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Long view inside the Large Hadron Collider tunnel, showing rows of blue superconducting magnets before the 2026 shutdown.

CERN has shut down the Large Hadron Collider for 4 years to rebuild it from the inside, and when it returns in 2030 it will not be faster, but far more luminous

July 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Artist’s rendering of China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft firing its ion thruster as it approaches asteroid Kamo’oalewa in deep space.

China’s Tianwen 2 probe is on its way to asteroid 2016 HO3, a small space rock that could become a key piece in the new race to bring back secrets from deep space

July 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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A volcano may have erupted remnants of Earth’s primordial magma ocean, material so ancient it could come from the planet’s earliest chapters of fire and rock

July 23, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Close-up macro photograph of an adult common bed bug (Cimex lectularius).

Bedbug DNA reveals that these insects have been tied to humans for far longer than we would like to imagine, a sticky and seriously uncomfortable history

July 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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