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  • A fossilized Homo naledi jawbone, with teeth attached, that was found during the excavations of the cave.
    Mathew Berger/National Geographic
    The most controversial fossil site in human evolution just got even more puzzling
  • People, in a floating container, are rescued from a building following an earthquake and tsunami in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan March 12, 2011. Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people. REUTERS/Kyodo (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN
    Kyodo/Reuters
    A seismic event bounced off Earth’s core and shifted an island country
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 12: The SpaceX company logo is displayed outside of the Nasdaq Marketsite at the launch of the company's initial public offering (IPO) on June 12, 2026 in New York City. SpaceX is set to begin trading under the ticker SPCX following what is expected to be the largest initial public offering in history. Elon Musk, who also serves as chief executive of Tesla, could become the world's first trillionaire. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it plans to raise $75 billion by selling 555.6 million shares at $135 each. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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    SpaceX is flying high off its public debut. It’s also having its biggest identity crisis to date
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    Watch the first-ever video of a newfound spider’s spring-loaded death trap
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    An unusual strategy helps some tropical butterflies live 25 times longer than their relatives
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    Sunken wreck of WWII ‘hell ship’ used to transport POWs discovered after more than 80 years
  • The Major Oak, shown here in June 2025, failed to produce any new leaves this spring.
    Steven Bramall/Alamy Stock Photo
    Ancient Sherwood Forest oak tree reputed to have sheltered Robin Hood has died
  • Excavations at the site in the village of Castel di Guido, located about 12 miles from Rome.
    Ministero della Cultura
    Illegal excavation reveals grand Roman villa with elaborate mosaics
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  • The ancient Neolithic monument of Stonehenge near Amesbury is viewed from a hot air balloon on September 7, 2016 in Wiltshire, England.
    Matt Cardy/Getty Images
    New discovery may have been Stonehenge prototype
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    Vladimiri Bazaliiskii
    Oldest known evidence of plague reveals the disease’s deadly impact 5,500 years ago

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    An ancient stone staircase seemed to lead nowhere. Now it’s revealing the ‘lost Pompeii’
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  • A handout image obtained by Reuters on June 4, 2026, shows evidence of a wind blowing away from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. The white dot in the center shows Sgr A*; orange represents data from ALMA radio telescopes in Chile, mapping the location of cold gas; blue represents X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, showing a large cone-shaped cavity, filled by hot X-ray-emitting gas, which researchers think was created by a hot, energetic wind from Sgr A*. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./M. Gorski; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand and P. Edmonds/Handout via REUTERS    THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
    NASA/Handout/Reuters
    The Milky Way’s black hole is eerily quiet. Scientists have now found evidence of its missing wind
  • (L/R) NASA astronaut commander Randy Bresnik, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut pilot Luca Parmitano, NASA astronaut mission specialist Frank Rubio, and NASA astronaut mission specialist Andre Douglas speak during a press conference announcing the crew for the Artemis III mission at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on June 9, 2026. The Italian Luca Parmitano will be the pilot of NASA's Artemis 3 voyage, the first European to join one of the program's missions. Parmitano, who will represent the European Space Agency, is one of four men named as crewmembers tasked with carrying out Artemis 3, which is targeting launch in late 2027. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)
    Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images
    NASA reveals Artemis III crew that will take the next big step on its journey back to the moon
  • The 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope, located on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai‘i, has captured NGC 1514, nicknamed the Crystal Ball Nebula, in awe-inspiring detail. This nebula, with its mesmerizing glow of gas, harbors hints of a past stellar death, and its asymmetrical shell is now being shaped by the binary pair that lies at its center. Gemini North is one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by NSF NOIRLab.
    International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
    New image of the Crystal Ball Nebula captures the ‘spectacular’ throes of a dying star
  • A total solar eclipse is seen in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe.
    Keegan Barber/NASA
    A total solar eclipse will occur this summer. Everything you need to know

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    Zubova et al., 2026/PLOS One
    59,000-year-old tooth offers a rare glimpse into how Neanderthals handled a medical problem
  • Dr. Douglas Stenton, anthropologist and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, excavating the bones of Franklin sailors at Erebus Bay.
    University of Waterloo
    DNA reveals identities of 4 sailors from doomed 1845 Franklin expedition
  • Spanish archaeologists conducted a survey in the waters of the Bay of Algeciras, or Bay of Gibraltar, between May 2020 and March 2023.
    Felipe Cerezo Andreo
    This small sea area between Europe and Africa is the site of 124 shipwrecks, archaeologists find
  • Early examples of Native American dice.
    Robert Madden
    Prehistoric dice suggest that Native Americans may have been gaming since the last ice age

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    Derk Remmers/Ghost Diving/Healthy Seas
    Rare footage of Mediterranean great white shark captured by ghost diver
  • East Asia's tallest tree is the ‘Heaven Sword,' depicted here.
    Steven Pearce
    East Asia’s tallest tree is the ‘Heaven Sword,’ an environmental guardian
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    Jeremy Harlan/CNN
    Inside the 6-year process of turning American football fields into World Cup pitches
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    Léo Perrier and Nicolas Mathevon
    Scientists are cracking the code of interspecies communication. Is that a good thing?

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    Global TREnD
    A submersible ride revealed a vast whale graveyard. And it holds more than just bones
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    Franz Anthony/Trustees of the Natural History Museum
    The largest scorpion to walk the Earth was the size of a baseball bat
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    Hailu You
    Fossil reveals bizarre gliding creature that hunted birds 120 million years ago
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    Perot Museum of Nature and Science/Courtesy American Museum of Natural History
    Massive marine predator crowned T. rex of the ocean and ‘a true terror of its time’
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