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Seventy-Eight Skeletons. Seventy-Seven Missing Heads. One Very Good Question.

77 headless skeletons. One child with a skull. Zero signs of massacre. What a Neolithic farming village in Slovakia was actually doing with its dead is a mystery.
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Bees Have a Water Escape Plan. Pesticides Dampen Their Swimming Skills.

Bees use visual contrast to swim toward shore. So what happens when a common pesticide erases that ability entirely?
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Florida Does Hurricanes. Apparently, It Has Opted in for Earthquakes Too.

The Gulf rarely shakes. Yet in June 2026, a fault nobody's been watching woke for the first time in over 70 years.
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Fireball Over Boston Detonates With the Force of 300 Tons of TNT. Casual Saturday.

A 5.6-metric-ton iron meteor exploded over Boston creating a sonic boom. NASA has a technical name for where it landed.
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A Katydid's Disguise Is Also Its Pickup Line

Survival and sex appeal are supposed to be a tradeoff. One katydid species apparently didn't get that memo. What happens when your disguise is also your best pickup line?
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Meet Balrog The Deep Cave Cricket

No natural caves. A 82 foot deep man-made tunnel. Thirty-seven insects clinging to the walls, named to honor Tolkien.
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Corpus
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Magic Mushroom Dose Didn't Cure Alzheimer's. It Did Start a Conversation.

A decade into Alzheimer's, nearly silent for five years, and then a single psilocybin dose sparked four hours of conversation.
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Deep Time
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The Planet Bombed Itself Into a Cradle

Asteroid impacts were supposed to be the enemy of life. New research suggests the early Earth's craters made life possible.
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Bomb Fish

Flatfish pulled from the North Sea are turning up with cancer in their tissue. The cause isn't a mystery. It's TNT. And the casings holding it in are still corroding.
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Parallax
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The Universe's Most Baffling Odd Couples Just Got a Bit More Real

Two Jupiter-sized planets orbit each other in the dark: no star, no system, no explanation. How does something form that shouldn't be able to exist?
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Signal
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AARO Tracks Genuine UAP by Radar Signature and Infrared. The Pentagon Released Eyewitness Sketches.

A flying potato. Glowing orbs. A 1949 letter to J. Edgar Hoover. The Pentagon's third UAP release spans 77 years of unexplained sightings and zero resolved cases.
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Tiny Wrens Turn Giant on Scottish Isles

Four isolated island populations of wrens evolved independently. Same winds, same weather, so why are some wrens ending up twice the size of their mainland relatives?
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A Ruptoblast Is an Immune Cell. It Does Exactly What That Sounds Like.

A Stanford discovery in planarian flatworms reveals an immune cell that detonates itself, destroying up to 70 surrounding cells in minutes and leaving no trace.
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Out of Bounds
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Stick Insects Figured Out How to Ditch Males. It Took Only 8,000 Years

Mediterranean stick bugs are opting for parthenogenesis.
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Deep Time
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Two Sheets of Carbon, One Tiny Twist, and Suddenly Electricity Flows for Free

Researchers discovered superconductivity can be switched on and off by changing a material's surroundings, not the material itself. What does that mean for everything built on electrons?
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Europa's Famous Water Plumes May Have Been a Trick of the Light

A reanalysis of 14 years of Hubble data has quietly dismantled one of the most exciting clues in the search for life near Jupiter.
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A New Snake Species Was Named "Unbelievable." The Taxonomists Were Not Wrong.

A newly described snake in China has a tail that looks exactly like its own head. That's not even the most surprising thing about how scientists found it.
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Intersectoid
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UAP Video Interview with James Fox, a YGBFKM Exclusive

Documentary filmmaker James Fox, speaking exclusively with YGBFKM reporter Intersectoid, outlines when additional UAP records may be released and how much President Donald Trump currently knows.
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