Planet Earth

Kraftwerk Duisburg-Walsum, a coal plant near Germany's Ruhr river, belches black smoke. Coal use is projected to reach a record high this year.

Breach of key global warming threshold 'inevitable' as carbon emissions hit record high

By Ben Turner published

At the current emissions level, there is a 50% chance that global warming will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius consistently in about seven years, new research suggests.

Climate Change
The pieces of Libyan desert glass that formed the basis of the study.

Strange yellow glass found in Libyan desert may have formed from lost meteor impact

By Elizaveta Kovaleva published

A strange type of glass that was discovered in 1933 in the Libyan desert may come from a meteorite, an analysis shows, but impact crater is still missing.

Geology
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Space

We see a beautiful cloud of yellowish gas illumated by starlight at the galaxy's center, on a dark blue background

James Webb telescope discovers dark secret of 'The Brick,' a gas cloud flipping assumptions about how stars are born

By Robert Lea published

Peering deep into 'The Brick,' a dark, chaotic gas cloud at the heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered secrets that could shake up theories of star formation.

Astronomy
A map of galaxies with a large stream of stars running through it

Intergalactic 'stream of stars' 10 times longer than the Milky Way is the 1st of its kind ever spotted

By Harry Baker published

While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen.

Cosmology
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archaeology

Three skulls of sacred mummified baboons from Egypt.

Ancient Egypt's sacred baboons had tough lives, study suggests

By Tom Metcalfe published

Ancient baboon mummies show signs of poor diet and lack of sunlight during captivity.

Archaeology
Archaeologists estimate the "curse tablet," made from a folded lead sheet and inscribed with proto-alphabetic characters, may be at least 3,200 years old.

Ancient 'curse tablet' may show earliest Hebrew name of God

By Tom Metcalfe last updated

Archaeologists working in the West Bank say they've discovered a tiny lead "curse tablet" that may include the oldest known mention of the Hebrew name of God "Yahweh" ever found.

Archaeology
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Health

A petri dish of a bacterium called MRSA glowing yellow under a black light

Vaccine for superbugs? New shot shows promise in early tests

By Stephanie Pappas published

A new vaccine, so far tested only in mice, broadly activates the immune system against a wide array of bacteria and fungi.

Medicine & Drugs
box of the antiviral paxlovid on a table next to a sleeve of the pills

Can antiviral drugs prevent long COVID?

By Ziyad Al-Aly, Suman Majumdar, Emma Pakula, Michelle Scoullar, Brendan Crabb published

Experts explain what we know about preventing and treating long COVID, at this point.

Coronavirus
Yosuda exercise bike being ridden by fitness writer Sam Hopes

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By James Frew published

Save 43% on this indoor bike with a comfortable seat, sturdy design, and small footprint to boost your cardio fitness at home.

Exercise
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Animals

Two elephant calves play together with their trunks

Scientists may have finally figured out how elephants got their incredible trunks

By Jacklin Kwan published

Elephants appear to have evolved their long, grasping trunks as a result of climate change pressures on their ancestors millions of years ago.

Elephants
A grizzly bear walks in the snow in West Yellowstone, Montana.

Half-asleep bears are wandering around Siberia because it's too hot to hibernate

By Sascha Pare published

Bears that are struggling to hibernate due to abnormally warm weather in Russia's Amur region are wandering around in a daze, having suppressed their metabolism in preparation for winter.

Bears
Large tortoise poses with neck extended upwards with its mouth wide open

World's oldest tortoise still randy at 191 years old

By Carys Matthews published

Jonathan, the world's oldest tortoise, has turned 191, living through 40 U.S. presidents and 31 St. Helena governors.

Animals
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Human Behavior

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By Lloyd Coombes published

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'Yeti hair' found in Himalayas is actually from a horse, BBC series reveals

By Patrick Pester published

DNA from a supposed Abominable Snowman actually came from a horse, but that doesn't mean stories of the Yeti passed on by local people aren't important.

Conspiracies & Paranormal
The mummified remains of what appears to be a small mermaid

Haunting 'mermaid' mummy from Japan is a gruesome monkey-fish hybrid with 'dragon claws,' new scans reveal

By Harry Baker published

Scientists have scanned the mummified remains of a supposed "mermaid" from Japan. The initial results suggest it is a horrifying mix of fish, monkey and lizard parts.

Conspiracies & Paranormal
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Physics & Mathematics

An artist's illustration of electric charge.

Electricity flows like water in 'strange metals,' and physicists don't know why

By Ben Turner published

A weird phenomenon in which electricity flows like water was spotted in a nanowire made of "strange metal" — a bizarre metal phase that has stumped physicists for 40 years.

Physics & Mathematics
The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

Large Hadron Collider could be generating dark matter in its particle jets

By Keith Cooper published

If dark matter is made from "dark" versions of the basic building blocks of ordinary matter, the world's largest particle accelerator should be able to pin it down, a new study suggests.

Dark Matter
Artist's impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be "vampire" star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background).

'Vampire' stars that bleed their companions dry may have a hidden accomplice, new study reveals

By Anna Demming published

Scientists suspect that type-Be 'vampire' stars grow by preying on their smaller companions. New research suggests there may be an important third player in these systems.

Physics & Mathematics
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Chemistry

Large iceberg floating in the arctic sea

Why does ice float?

By Hannah Loss published

Why does ice float in water, instead of sinking to the bottom? It has to do with water's density and molecular structure.

Chemistry
A wispy blue cloud of molecular gas glows from the light of distant stars in this James Webb Space Telescope image

Building blocks of life may have formed on dust in the cold vacuum of space

By Paul Sutter published

Far from any galaxy, icy grains of dust in deep space may be able to form organic molecules, a new preprint study finds.

Chemistry
Colorful depiction of atoms.

Scientists get rare glimpse of 'nesting doll' isotope nitrogen-9

By Ben Turner published

With five more protons than should be stable, the newly discovered nitrogen-9 isotope sits right on the borderline of physical possibility.

Chemistry
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Tech

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By Lloyd Coombes published

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Image of three Anthrobots

These astonishing biobots can help neurons regrow — but researchers have no idea how

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published

Tiny biological robots can move on their own, assemble into 'superbots' and encourage nerve cells regrow.

Robotics
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Scientists uncover the secret to building Star Wars-style laser weapons — but don't worry, we won't have a Death Star anytime soon

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published

Today's infrared lasers are only powerful enough to disable aerial targets, but scientists now have the keys to building high-powered laser weaponry that can 'melt' distant targets.

Engineering
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