Our Ancestors Were Apparently Fine With Freezing
The jungle origin story for primates was wrong. Their actual birthplace was cold, seasonal North America — and the survival strategy may still live in us.
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Deep Sea Whale Necropolis Is Five Million Years Old
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Scientists mapped Earth's fungal networks for the first time. What they found underground reframes life above it.
The Ground Beneath Thawing Permafrost Is Consuming CO2
As permafrost thaws, something unexpected kicks in: the rock itself starts pulling CO2 back down. What happens when geology fights biology for control of the carbon cycle?
Plant Hormones Are Circulating in Mammals
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A Space Peanut Is Tumbling Through the Asteroid Belt
It's shaped like a peanut, it wobbles on two axes, and it used to have water. NASA called this flyby a warm-up. The asteroid apparently didn't get that memo.
Egyptian Curse Tossed Into a Dutch Well
A 2nd-century lead tablet found in the Netherlands shouldn't read like Egyptian magic written in Greek. So why does it? The answer says something strange about how far belief travels.
Every Amazon Molly Is Female. The Name Tracks.
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You Can't Help Veering Left
Scientists tested 573 people across multiple countries and kept ruling out explanations. Culture? No. Handedness? No. Dominant eye? No. So why does almost everyone walk the same direction?
Shadow Blaster Galaxy Shot Neutrinos at South Pole
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Zombie Squirrel of the Pleistocene Feasted on Mammoth Meat
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Greek Volcano Methana Rewrites "Extinct" Definition
A volcano near Athens stayed silent for 100,000 years. Was it dying or secretly growing into something far more dangerous?
A Human Body Ran on a Pig's Liver and Kidneys
The pig liver produced bile. The kidneys cleared creatinine. The body's metabolism shifted toward human baselines. The borrowed organs acted like they belonged.
Lawrence Livermore Built a Mini Nuclear Fireball
Fallout models built on Cold War bomb tests assumed orderly chemistry. A controlled lab experiment shows the reality is far messier.
One Eye. One Patient. Gene Therapy Pushes Cells Backward in Time.
A Boston biotech just dosed its first patient with a gene therapy designed to make damaged eye cells act young again.
The Murder Victim Who Became a Sourdough Starter
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Your Cells' Powerhouses Have a Secret Extension Cord
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New Rules for the Day We Hear From an Alien Civilization
As UAP files drop and Hollywood rehearses alien disclosure, scientists quietly updated the official protocols for what happens if contact actually occurs.