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  • Bryn, an 11-year-old male Border Collie from the UK, knows the names of about 100 toys.
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    Some super-smart dogs can pick up new words just by eavesdropping
  • This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 14 million light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The dashed circle marks the peak of radio emission, which is where researchers focused their search for stars. Follow-up observations by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys found no stars within the cloud. The few objects that appear within its boundaries are background galaxies. Before the Hubble observations, scientists could argue that Cloud-9 is a faint dwarf galaxy whose stars could not be seen with ground-based telescopes due to the lack of sensitivity. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows that, in reality, the failed galaxy contains no stars.
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    New ‘Cloud-9’ object could reveal the secrets of dark matter
  • A view of the  International Space Station with the Earth 265 miles below seen during a space walk on December 2, 2021.
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    NASA says it is ‘evaluating all options’ as astronauts navigate medical concern in space
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    Oldest known poison arrows were used to hunt animals 60,000 years ago
  • 773 000 years old mandible ThI-GH-10717 from Thomas Quarry in Morocco
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    Fossils unearthed in Morocco are first from little-understood period of human evolution
  • The war trumpet and other artefacts had to be delicately removed from the soil block which was removed from the ground.
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    ‘Extraordinary’ Iron Age war trumpet uncovered in England
  • Hora Mountain from afar on Saturday, July 23, 2016.
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    Oldest known cremation pyre in Africa reveals mysterious woman who lived 9,500 years ago
  • A model wearing IXI's "autofocus" glasses.
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    ‘Autofocus’ glasses can change their lenses in real time
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  • A full moon "supermoon" rises next to a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain, January 31, 2018.  REUTERS/Paul Hanna
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    January’s full wolf supermoon and the Quadrantid meteor shower will start off the new year
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The much-admired natural spectacle of the Geminids at its peak in the early morning hours of 14.12.2025 in the Salzburger Flachgau. The Geminid meteor current was probably triggered by an asteroid called "Phaeton", and can be admired annually in December, where at times more than 100 shooting stars can be seen per hour in the night sky. The much-admired natural spectacle of the Geminids reaches its peak in the early morning hours of December 14, 2025, in the Salzburg Flachgau region. The Geminid meteor shower was probably triggered by an asteroid called "Phaeton" and can be admired annually in December, when at times more than 100 shooting stars per hour can be seen in the night sky.
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    All the eclipses, supermoons, meteor showers and planets to spot in 2026

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    Jane Austen’s cause of death has remained a mystery. But her letters and books offer clues
  • Pilot Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in and airplane in circa 1936. (Photo courtesty Library of Congress/Getty Images)
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    An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
  • O’Neill Cylinder interior provides a 20-mile vista. Children born here would think it totally normal to have “upside down” land areas overhead.
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    Two billionaires have very different — and equally wild — visions of a future in space. Is either possible?
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    An ancient stone staircase seemed to lead nowhere. Now it’s revealing the ‘lost Pompeii’
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  • A full Moon is in view from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. The Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are being prepared for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for launch. The first in an increasingly complex series of missions, Artemis I will test SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and using the Moon as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
    Ben Smegelsky/NASA
    NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades
  • She just became the first wheelchair user to travel to space
  • How to see the Ursids, the final meteor shower of 2025
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    Historical mysteries solved by science in 2025
  • A Pompeii site reveals the recipe for Roman concrete. It contradicts a famous architect’s writings
  • Researchers uncover clues to mysterious origin of famous Hjortspring boat
  • Archaeologists find earliest known fire made by humans

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  • View from the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada.
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    Gold is escaping from Earth’s core and other wild things we learned about the planet in 2025
  • Some dolphins appear to have orca friends. Scientists think they have figured out what’s going on
  • Just how monogamous are humans? Scientists break down how we compare with other animals
  • In a scientific first, biologists recorded a wild wolf potentially using tools

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  • For the first time, bees were recorded using bones to nest and lay eggs in a Caribbean cave.
    Courtesy of Lazaro Viñola López
    Discovery of ancient bee nests in fossils points to a never-before-seen behavior
  • Scientists document over 16,000 footprints in the world’s most extensive dinosaur tracksite
  • Ancient eggshells shed new light on crocodiles that hunted prey from trees
  • Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex
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