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Superstitions have been keeping people on their toes for centuries. But where do these superstitions come from? 

Black Cats and Broken Mirrors: These 7 Superstitions Have Ancient Roots

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Learn how early humans employed specialized fire pits to create resins needed to attach stone tool parts to wooden shafts.

75,000-Year-Old Fire Pit Shows Neanderthal Innovation With Tar

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The Grand Egyptian Museum is set to open in a few months. Here's what you can see of King Tut.

4 King Tut Artifacts You’ll Find at the Grand Egyptian Museum

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A new discovery of basal sauropod helps dive a little deeper into the purpose behind the tail club.

Tail Clubs Weren't Just for Ankylosaurs – Some Sauropods Had Them, Too

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Our impact on the planet has caused the Sixth Mass Extinction. Here are the main reasons why we are causing the most recent animal extinctions.

How Humans Have Caused the Most Recent Wave of Extinction

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What happens if an otter pup gets separated from its mother? In some aquariums, otter surrogacy programs are finding success.

Sea Otter Surrogacy Pairs Childless Otters with Orphan Pups

Exploding head syndrome

If you've heard a gun shot while you fall asleep that didn't actually happen, you may be experiencing exploding head syndrome.

What Is Exploding Head Syndrome?

Lucy-reconstruction

Researchers have learned valuable evolutionary information from Lucy's discovery and could learn even more in the next 50 years. 

8 Things We’ve Learned Since Lucy's Discovery 50 Years Ago

Life restoration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. (Credit: Gabriel Ugueto)

Skiphousoura life reconstruction

Fossil find in Germany helps solve paleontological puzzle between earlier and later pterosaurs.

New Flying Lizard Species Fills in Evolutionary Gap for Pterosaurs 

A shot of the "300 Years of RAS" dome on Shiveluch in Russia. Credit: KVERT.

Shiveluch Dome

Sometimes it is hard to compare the eruptions of remote volcano to potential blasts at more well-known volcanoes. I try to put the common explosive eruptions at Shiveluch in the context of US volcanoes.

What Would Shiveluch's Current Eruptions Look Like in the United States?

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When Fat Bear Week witnessed the bear attack between male bear 469 and female bear 402, they had to delay the week. While it was not fun to watch, it could have been normal behavior. 

Bears Attacking — and Eating — Other Bears Is Considered Normal

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Donner Memorial State Park California

Recent findings at the Donner Party site seemed to indicate there was no cannibalism, at first. But, the claim has since been withdrawn.

What If the Donner Party Didn't Resort to Cannibalism?

Only a tiny percentage of the globe experienced cooler than normal temperatures during January through October. As the red and pink colors in this map of the globe show, almost all of Earth's surface was unusually warm — and a significant portion, including North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania, was record warm. (Credit: NOAA)

Feverish Earth

This year likely will end as warmest on record, and new findings show Earth's icy places are suffering. Meanwhile, CO2 emissions continue rising — and efforts to turn the climatic tide are increasingly threatened.

As International Climate Talks Devolve Into A "Circus," Unsettling News About Global Heating Emerges

Southern-Corroboree-Frog

Scientists are seeing signs of resistance to the infections that have been wiping out the world’s amphibian populations — and developing strategies to aid in the fight Down Under.

Frogs Kick Back Against Lethal Fungus

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Comet C2023 A3 or Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.

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2025 isn’t expected to be a great year for comets, but with luck, you might get a few good sightings.

Missed the Comet C/2023 A3? Don't Worry, Here are Other Comets to Look For

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Images from the International Space Station clearly shows Earth’s curvature.

Why Does Everything Look Flat Even Though the Earth Is Round?

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An age-appropriate strength training program can have significant benefits for children and adolescents.

Strength Training Early in Life Can Set Up Kids for a Lifetime of Health

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Paranormal beliefs

People who feel they have less control over their lives are more likely to embrace the paranormal.

Feeling Stressed? You May be More Likely to Believe in Spooky Phenomena  

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For less than $400, it's possible to observe places like the star-forming regions at the center of our galaxy.

How To Build A Backyard Radio Telescope

Tiger in a zoo (Credit: Aneesh AV/Shutterstock)

Tiger in a zoo

Documented cases of allergies in wildlife are rare, but animals are susceptible once they’re in captivity. 

Animals May Not Get Allergies in the Wild, But Zoos Tell a Different Story

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Rocks can hold clues to history dating back hundreds of millions of years.

Evidence From Snowball Earth Found in Ancient Rocks on Colorado’s Pikes Peak

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Rats will choose to take a longer route if it means they get to enjoy the ride to their destination.

After Teaching Rats To Drive, Neuroscientists Uncovered How Anticipating Joy Can Enhance Life

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AI is powerful technology, but that doesn’t mean we should adopt it unquestioningly. 

Is AI Dominance Inevitable? A Technology Ethicist Says No, Actually

Spinning methods. (a) Manual thigh-spinning [64]; (b) Spindle-and-whorl “supported spinning” [68]; (c) “drop spinning” [66]; (d) the experimental spindles and whorls, the 3D scans of the pebbles and their negative perforations. The bottom pictures show Yonit Kristal experimenting spinning fibers with replicas of the perforated pebbles, using supported spinning and drop spinning techniques (photographed by Talia Yashuv). (Credit: Yashuv, Grosman, 2024, PLOS ONE)

Spinning A Yarn

Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version of a spinning wheel.

Pebbles Push Back the Invention of the Wheel to About 12,000 Years Ago

two parrots eating a red chili pepper

Birds are one type of animal that have adapted to not feel the effects of spicy foods that humans often do. 

Certain Animals Tolerate Spicy Foods Better Than Others

MBARI researchers have described a remarkable new species of nudibranch from the depths of the midnight zone. Nicknamed the “Mystery mollusc,” Bathydevius caudactylus swims with a fingered tail, uses a cavernous hood to capture food, and glows with brilliant bioluminescence. (Credit: MBARI)


New species in the deep ocean called the Mystery Mollusc

Researchers describe a new nudibranch that is genetically drastically different from its closest relatives.

A ‘Mystery Mollusc’ Has See-Through Skin and Wears a Hood to Capture Prey

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There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for everyone. 

What Education Looked Like for These 5 Ancient Societies

(Credit: Great Lakes Marine Collection of the Milwaukee Public Library and Wisconsin Marine Historical Society)


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Though many amature divers claim to have found the famous shipwreck, it's likely still below Lake Michigan's waves. 

No One Has Ever Found the Le Griffon Shipwreck, Despite the Many Claims

(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran)

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What is Jupiter's great red spot? Researchers have observed the red spot changing over time. 

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Oscillates Like a Stress Ball

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Woman thinking about memories. (Credit: metamorworks/Shutterstock)

Woman thinking about memories

New brain-coding technology brings us one step closer to mind reading.

We Want to Hear Your Thoughts

Elm & Rye Protein Powder

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Elm & Rye Female Libido Supplements

How to Make a Woman Orgasm: A Scientific Approach

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