‘Snowball Earth’ May Not Have Been An Endless Frozen Wasteland After All

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Repeating radio signal leads astronomers to an Earth-size exoplanet

Planets without stars might have moons suitable for life

Photographer Captures Ultra-Rare Red Ring of Light Over Italy

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Wild Elephants Appear to Have Been Domesticated, But Not by Humans

In the War on Bacteria, It’s Time to Call in the Phages

How cellphones have changed our brains

Physicists Created ‘Slits in Time’ and Discovered ‘Unexpected Physics’ in Experiment

The Extraordinary Ways Rhythm Shapes Our Lives

An Anonymous Critic Played Cat and Mouse with Beijing for 12 Years. Then He Got Caught.

Rare Gold Coin Celebrating Julius Caesar’s Death Returned to Greece

A passenger aircraft that flies around the world at Mach 9? Sure, why not

Ancient Mummies From Mexico Might Be Infecting Humans

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How Randomness Improves Algorithms

Sparkly Rock in Museum Turns Out to Be 60-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg

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World’s Oldest Preserved Brain Found in a 319 Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil

The US leads the world in weather catastrophes. Here’s why

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Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Galactic Center Radio Arc

Smithsonian Places 4.5 Million Historic Images Into the Public Domain

Why Earth is the only planet with plate tectonics

Nasa names astronauts for Artemis Moon mission

Scientists find deepest fish ever recorded at 8,300 metres underwater near Japan

Tulare Lake Returned in the Central Valley After California Storms

Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes

NASA to Announce 4 Astronauts on the Artemis II Moon Mission: Live Updates

Hubble spotted a bizarre space object that defies classification

What did Homo sapiens eat 170,000 years ago? Roasted, supersized land snails

Superthanks, 171 kind and generous humans! You saved our March.

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‘Thousands of Dollars for Something I Didn’t Do’

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US Army To Develop ‘Supergun’ Artillery Capable Of Long-Range Strikes

Indigenous people of the American West used ‘sacred’ horses a half-century earlier than previously thought

How Paris Kicked Out the Cars

Hard to believe, but a treatment for baldness can be traced to a doctor’s observation of the effects of castration

Virgin Orbit shuts down after failing to gain more funds

Sublime Autochromes From Early 20th Century France

A Big Rover Aims to Be Like ‘U.P.S. for the Moon’

Batmobiles, Bugs Bunny and James Dean’s jeans: a day inside the Warner Bros top-secret archive

The Gangster Who Died Twice

Hittite Empire: Extreme drought ended one of the ancient world’s greatest empires

Declassified report suggests “Havana syndrome” could result from energy weapon

GPT-5 expected this year, could make ChatGPT indistinguishable from a human

Tyrannosaurus rex: our new research shows it covered its enormous teeth with lips

From Eugenics to Targeted Advertising: The Dark Role of Data in Sorting Humanity

An Upcoming Space Mission Could Find a Holy Grail Planet

Scientists accidentally discover photosynthesis doesn’t work exactly like we thought it did

Your Next Landlord Could Be 100 Random People

Hubble Finds Saturn’s Rings Heating Its Atmosphere

FBI: Mandalay Bay shooter in Las Vegas who killed 58 was angry about how casinos treated him

Gallery: The Gibson Family Album of Shipwrecks

Plants Yell When They’re Stressed Out

This map of Venus shows every volcano we know about on its surface

How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes