Science

They have no proteins, no capsule, and yet they replicate within the human body in a way that no one fully understands

They have no proteins, no capsule, and yet they replicate within the human body in a way that no one fully understands

January 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM
A landslide on an English beach uncovered something impossible: a millipede the size of a car that lived before the dinosaurs

A landslide on an English beach uncovered something impossible: a millipede the size of a car that lived before the dinosaurs

January 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Scientists managed to trace the tree of life back to a single common ancestor that lived more than two billion years ago

Scientists managed to trace the tree of life back to a single common ancestor that lived more than two billion years ago

January 11, 2026 at 7:57 AM
What appeared to be a lone survivor from the abyss turns out to be one of the most widespread creatures on the planet, only no one had noticed it

What appeared to be a lone survivor from the abyss turns out to be one of the most widespread creatures on the planet, only no one had noticed it

January 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
A 100-million-year-old fossil pearl found in outback Queensland is rewriting a small piece of Australia’s ancient sea story

A 100-million-year-old fossil pearl found in outback Queensland is rewriting a small piece of Australia’s ancient sea story

January 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Front view of a fragmented ancient human skull fossil with visible cracks and missing sections against a black background.

A man was struck by a stone projectile 12,000 years ago, survived for months, and his skeleton has just told the whole story

January 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Map showing marine heatwaves and ocean surface temperature anomalies highlighted in red and orange tones.

A NASA satellite has made visible something microscopic that keeps one of the most endangered whales on the planet alive

January 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
A “supergiant” gold deposit has been found in China that could contain 1,000 metric tons of gold

A “supergiant” gold deposit has been found in China that could contain 1,000 metric tons of gold

January 9, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Engraved vault plate on NASA’s Europa Clipper, a message in a bottle carrying names, poetry, and water words to Europa.

Europa Clipper carries Earth’s message in a bottle to an alien ocean

January 9, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Artist view of TOI-715 b, a super-Earth 137 light-years away in the habitable zone, orbiting a cool red dwarf star.

NASA detects a “super-Earth” just 137 light-years away in the habitable zone: the most intriguing detail is that its year lasts only 19 days

January 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Japan resumed supplying the Space Station after five years, and the launch of its new spacecraft marks a quiet shift in its space program

Japan resumed supplying the Space Station after five years, and the launch of its new spacecraft marks a quiet shift in its space program

January 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are.

If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are

January 8, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Aerial view of Monte Sierpe “Band of Holes” 5,200 pits in ordered rows on a ridge above Peru’s Pisco Valley.

More than 5,200 holes lined up as if they were numbers hid more than just an archaeological mystery

January 8, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Melting clock symbolizing the “time mirror” experiment that reverses part of an electromagnetic wave backward in time.

After 60 years of theory, a team achieves a real “time mirror”, and what happens to the wave seems to come from the future

January 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Satellite-style map showing the East African Rift, a long seam splitting Africa between the Nubian and Somali plates.

Africa looks motionless from space, but a thousands-of-kilometers-long “crack” is already splitting it apart, and satellites are watching it spread section by section

January 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Arid shoreline of Lake Turkana with Omo–Turkana Basin map, where a 1,231-fossil catalog reveals major gaps in the record.

They gathered 117 scattered studies and compiled a single catalog with 1,231 fossils and 658 individuals, but what is most disturbing is what is missing in between

January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Medieval heraldic stone slab discovered beneath an old building during sewer repairs in Vyborg, Russia

Maintenance workers were repairing an old building when they lifted a stone cover and found something that left archaeologists speechless

January 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Cratered Moon surface in shadow, representing the Moon receding from Earth and the slow lengthening of our days.

They detected that the Moon is moving away about 3.8 centimeters per year, and the disturbing detail is that this “step backward” is stretching our days without anyone noticing

January 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Haul truck hauling limestone at an Oklahoma quarry near the Richards Spur fossil caves.

Scientists were searching for bones in an Oklahoma cave, but they found something much rarer and more extraordinary

January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM