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Copper Age shell beads recovered from a 5,000 year old female burial at the Montelirio tholos in Spain

270,000 seashells found in a 5,000-year-old female grave reveal what female power was like in the Copper Age, leaving scientists speechless

February 11, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Close-up of Martian soil and rock texture tied to Perseverance’s cached samples as Mars Sample Return plans stall

The mission to bring Earth’s most valuable rocks from Mars is considered a failure, and now China could get there first with a return in 2031

February 11, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Visualization of cosmic expansion explained by geometry without invoking dark energy

For 25 years, we believed that 70% of the universe was “dark energy”… but this new theory could prove that it was all a mistake

February 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket for Artemis II rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building toward Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center

NASA is already moving its giant rocket to platform 39B, and the manned return to the Moon begins with a 4-mile journey at walking pace

February 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Distant baby galaxy Y1 forming stars at an extreme rate in the early universe, observed with the ALMA telescope

Astronomers discover a baby galaxy in turbo mode: it converts more than 180 “suns” of gas per year into new stars… while ours barely reaches 1

February 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Hyper-realistic facial reconstruction of an Ice Age hunter-gatherer beside a frontal view of an ancient human skull.

A group of researchers compared the DNA of Italian centenarians with prehistoric genomes… and what they discovered left them stunned: the secret to living to 100 could lie in genes from 14,000 years ago

February 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Visualization of two electrons becoming quantum entangled over an ultrafast attosecond timescale

The surprise in physics: two electrons do not become entangled “all at once,” but rather the correlation forms first and then the temporal signature appears in the leak

February 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Craniofacial reconstruction on display at Hualongdong site museum in Anhui, China, based on a 300,000-year-old human fossil.

A “pre-sapiens” in China 300,000 years ago: a juvenile jawbone that blends archaic traits with nearly modern features

February 10, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Folded ancient rock layers in South Africa where researchers used AI to detect chemical traces linked to early microbial life.

They detected signs of microbes almost as old as the Earth

February 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM
A bright orange nurse shark alongside a fishing boat off Costa Rica, documented as a rare pigment case linked to xanthism and possible albinism.

A nearly neon-orange nurse shark was accidentally caught off the coast of Costa Rica, and scientists believe it may be the first documented case involving a “double” pigment change

February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Clams and tube worms clustered around methane seeps on the seafloor nearly 10,000 meters below the ocean surface

Science has just discovered “oases” of clams and tube worms at a depth of 9,533 meters, where sunlight does not exist and yet life thrives in abundance

February 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Excavated 5,000-year-old dog skeleton in Logsjömossen, Sweden, buried with a polished bone dagger in an ancient lakebed

The intact skeleton of a 5,000-year-old dog buried with a bone dagger is found in an ancient Swedish lake… and changes everything we thought we knew about the relationship between humans and dogs in ancient times

February 9, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Illustration of black holes in an expanding universe linked to new research on dark energy

What Eddington once called absurd could be behind 70% of the cosmos: the new idea that turns the universe’s expansion into a kind of cosmic “fuel” that no one had taken this seriously before

February 9, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Close-up illustration of a dodo, the extinct flightless bird scientists aim to recreate through gene editing

Extinct for more than 300 years, the dodo could walk the Earth again: science is seriously attempting to do so with an unusual biotechnological experiment that promises to resurrect a species extinct since 1681… but with an unexpected twist

February 9, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Archaeologists lifting massive stone blocks from the submerged Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt

Archaeologists are lifting 70- to 80-ton stones from the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria, and the most intriguing part is that some pieces appear to be part of a long-lost monumental doorway

February 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM
A Maya pyramid and plaza at an ancient city site in Guatemala, linked to new research on why some wet regions were abandoned.

It rained, crops kept growing, and yet the Maya still left. The unexpected twist that calls the classic explanation of their collapse into question

February 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Inset highlights “Cosmic Grapes,” an early lensed galaxy whose light breaks into many compact, star-forming clumps.

A galaxy looked calm in the first images, but when it was brought into focus it turned out to be a cluster of at least 15 stellar bursts, like cosmic grapes

February 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Space debris over Earth as the FAA warns airlines to plan for falling rocket debris after a Starship breakup.

The United States issues a historic warning to all airlines: the “invisible risk” in the sky is no longer a theory, but has become a reality following the explosion of a SpaceX rocket that nearly collided with three commercial flights

February 8, 2026 at 8:02 AM
ALMA image of a protoplanetary disk showing rings and gaps shaped by forming baby planets

New images capture “footprints” of baby planets around newborn stars, which could be forming in just hundreds of thousands of years

February 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Compact early universe galaxy forming stars rapidly just 600 million years after the Big Bang

Just 600 million years after the Big Bang, a compact galaxy appears that produces stars as if there were no tomorrow

February 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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