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    St Helena Government
    Jonathan the 194-year-old tortoise could help humans live longer
  • Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) have developed a rover with two fire-proof origami-inspired wheels, which they hope will be sent to the moon in 2030. <strong>Scroll through the gallery to see more.</strong>
    Unmanned Exploration Laboratory and Aerospace Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, KAIST
    These origami-inspired rover wheels could help explore the moon’s lava tubes
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    From Anthropic
    Anthropic’s announcement of a ‘Claude-led’ CRISPR-like discovery is sparking controversy. Here’s why
  • A fisherman watches a meteor during the Draconid meteor shower over Howick rocks in Northumberland. Picture date: Sunday October 10, 2021. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)
    Owen Humphreys/PA Images/Getty Images
    Don’t miss the Draconid meteor shower, a celestial event that won’t take all night
  • Margaret Hamilton, mathematic and computer programmer at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, sits in mock up of Apollo command module on display at the Cambridge school, November 25, 1969, where she headed group that programmed Intrepid's pinpoint landing in the Sea of Storms on the moon.
    AP
    Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died
  • A photograph of a relief at the Temple of Seti I, in Abydos, Egypt
    Hemis/Alamy
    Ancient Egyptians sacrificed servants when kings died, forensic tests show
  • Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026.
    Niklas Elmehed/Nobel
    Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for unraveling mystery of mirror molecules
  • Francis Halzen was honored with the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
    Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images
    Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen for his work detecting ‘ghostly’ cosmic particles
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    Paul Burke
    Scientists name ancient crocodile species found in rock that built the Great Sphinx
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    Zambian Carnivore Programme
    Three wild dogs traveled more than 2,500 miles just to find a mate

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    An ancient stone staircase seemed to lead nowhere. Now it’s revealing the ‘lost Pompeii’
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  • Artist's illustration of the second-generation planet that has formed around white dwarf HS 0209+0832.
    Snehalata Sahu/University of Warwick
    First-ever evidence of a second-generation planet detected around dead star
  • This artist’s concept depicts the young Beta Pictoris planetary system with the newly discovered giant exoplanet; Beta Pictoris d; at the right. Beta Pictoris c circles closest to the star (left in this artist’s concept); Beta Pictoris b follows on a wider orbit; and the newly discovered Beta Pictoris d lies farther out; just inside the debris disk’s inner edge. In this artist’s concept; the planets are shown at their correct relative orbital distances; but the planets themselves have been enlarged and are not to scale relative to their orbits.
    NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Ralf Crawford (STScI)
    Radio signal detected for the first time from a planet outside our solar system
  • (Nov. 2, 2023) --- The sun's glint beams across the Pacific Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above the Hawaiian island chain.
    NASA
    Google is firing the first salvo in a brewing race to deploy AI data centers in orbit
  • NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory orbits above Earth in this artist’s concept.
    Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA
    A storied NASA observatory could be weeks away from falling to Earth after failed rescue attempt

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    Tom Brughmans/Handout/Reuters
    Analysis busts myths of Roman road network — and offers insight into ancient world
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    MAPANG Project
    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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  • Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel
    Stanford Health Care/AIChE
    Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for technique that helps decode mysteries of the brain
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    João Menezes
    Scientists identify two of the world’s noisiest birds – and they’re as loud as a jackhammer
  • A specimen of the new sea spider species Callipallene pilosuspedes
    Cormac Toler-Scott
    New hairy-legged, three-lipped, red-eyed sea spider species discovered
  • Turdus Merula Blackbird
    Courtesy of Dr. Randler
    Which bird has the most melodious song? A new study has an answer

Paleontology

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    Tyler Lyson/Denver Museum of Nature & Science
    A teacher spotted two unusually large footprints. They turned out to be a first for science
  • 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.
    courtesy Dinosaur Institute/Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
    Fossil tooth analysis confirms Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded
  • 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
  • Example-of-a-titanosaur-egg
    Darla Zelenitsky
    Fossilized eggs of the largest known dinosaurs have been unearthed in an unexpected place
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