Space
Astronomers have found 31 of the oldest known quasars burning so soon after the Big Bang that current models struggle to explain how their…
Jul 11, 2026
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Life
Scientists have found a Heliconius butterfly that barely seems to age, living several times longer than its close relatives and showing…
Jul 11, 2026
Space
NASA's Curiosity rover has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, some possibly billions of years old and tied to the…
Jul 11, 2026
Technology
In 1869, a young Swiss chemist named Friedrich Miescher started collecting pus-soaked bandages from a nearby surgical clinic, dissolved the…
Jul 11, 2026
Technology
The Roman Pantheon's unreinforced concrete dome has stood for nearly 1,900 years and remains the largest of its kind on Earth, partly…
Jul 11, 2026
Life
Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings, the only animal known to do so, forming the flat-sided pellets inside the last stretch of their…
Jul 11, 2026
Earth & Environment
Iceland's Hallgrímskirkja church took 41 years to build and was designed to echo the basalt lava columns that cool into hexagonal pillars…
Jul 11, 2026
Science
A tiny crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through its gills, severs the blood vessels of its tongue until the organ withers…
Jul 11, 2026
Science
In 1856, an 18-year-old chemistry student named William Perkin was trying to synthesize quinine at home over Easter when a black residue in…
Jul 11, 2026
Science
In 1847, Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis watched maternal deaths fall from 18% to about 2% after ordering doctors to wash their…
Jul 11, 2026
Science
The Sun launches roughly a trillion kilograms of charged plasma toward Earth in a coronal mass ejection, and the fastest clouds can cross…
Jul 11, 2026
Space
The single loudest sound ever recorded was the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883
Jul 11, 2026
Life
Killer whales off the Pacific Northwest speak in distinct dialects passed down through generations, and pods that never interbreed can…
Jul 11, 2026
Life
Octopuses in a Dartmouth lab learned to use mirrors to locate food hidden behind them
Jul 11, 2026