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    Analysis busts myths of Roman road network — and offers insight into ancient world
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    North Korea’s nuclear tests may have reactivated seismic faults
  • Captured by the Artemis II crew, the heavily cratered terrain of the eastern edge of the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin.
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    Cities won’t survive on the moon as there isn’t enough water, scientists say
  • Photo of the skull of Thomas the Tyrannosaurus rex (LACM150167) on the mounted skeleton in the Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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    Fossil tooth analysis confirms Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded
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    Astonishing footage of abnormal cell movement in lungs wins 2026 Nikon video microscopy prize
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    The US military said it has deployed weapons in space. Here’s what that could mean
  • A fossilized feather seen preserved in dinosaur poop.
    Jingmai O’Connor/Field Museum
    Some birds survived the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs. A fossilized poop can help explain why
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    These ‘alien tortoises’ are back on a Galapagos island where they had been extinct since the 19th century
  • Researchers assess LZ’s central detector while it is wrapped in foil.
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    Potential dark matter detection sparks hope in search for elusive substance

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  • This mosaic of images taken on Oct. 6, 2008, by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows an impact crater on Mercury named Hokusai. The crater has an impressive system of rays, which extend out more than 600 miles (about 1,000 kilometers) across the planet.
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    The closest planet to our sun is shrinking. Here’s what that means
  • President Donald Trump holds up an order to create the U.S. Space Academy before a Congressional Space Medal of Honor ceremony at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, in Houston, as Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, right, look on.
    Karen Warren/AP
    Trump’s proposed Space Academy aims to educate a new generation of astronauts and engineers
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    ESA/ATG medialab
    The BepiColombo mission begins its arrival at Mercury after nearly 8 years
  • A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches with NASA’S Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Launch occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT.
    NASA/Joel Kowsky
    NASA launches ‘discovery machine’ to unravel the invisible universe

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    Earliest known drug use may have trapped prehistoric foragers in a ‘vicious cycle’
  • Around 700 silver objects and fragments were uncovered.
    Nordjyske Museer
    ‘Biggest surprise of my life’: Denmark’s largest Viking Age silver hoard discovered in backyard
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    Rinat Zhumatayev
    Ancient DNA reveals clues about mysterious ‘Golden Man’ and rise of the Scythian elites
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    Łukasz Czyżewski
    Scientists aim to unravel the secrets of a young woman’s ‘vampire’ burial

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  • Spider-tailed horned viper
    Omid Mozaffari/Field Museum
    Scientists look inside the ‘spider’ growing on the tip of a rare viper’s tail
  • Trained pet dogs remained awake during fMRI scans as researchers measured their brain activity while they viewed images of human faces expressing happiness, anger, fear and sadness.
    Laura V. Cuaya
    Dogs know if we’re happy, sad or scared just from our expressions, study suggests
  • A critically endangered female red handfish (Thymichthys politus) at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Tasmania.
    Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark
    18,000 portraits in 20 years: The man racing to photograph life on Earth
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    Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment RF/Getty Images
    Researchers identify traces of two ‘ghost’ ancestors in modern human DNA

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  • Example-of-a-titanosaur-egg
    Darla Zelenitsky
    Fossilized eggs of the largest known dinosaurs have been unearthed in an unexpected place
  • Gus the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton at Sotheby's auction house in New York City, U.S. July 1, 2026. REUTERS/Jordan Tovin
    Jordan Tovin/Reuters
    Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction
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    Scott Evans/AMNH
    Fossils reveal the earliest animal with a head was also the oldest known ‘righty’
  • An artist's reconstruction of the Antarctic sauropod dinosaur.
    Andrew McAfee/Carnegie Museum of Natural History
    Fossil kept in drawer for decades turns out to be first ever Antarctica dinosaur bone
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