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Scientists 'Wake Up' Ancient Life That's Been Under The Seabed For 100 Million Years
This community of bacteria has been here since titanosaurs roamed Earth.
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Scientists 'Wake Up' Ancient Life That's Been Under The Seabed For 100 Million Years
A Wobbling Brown Dwarf Might Be A Sign Of The First Discovered 'Exomoon' – A Moon Outside The Solar System
A Wobbling Brown Dwarf Might Be A Sign Of The First Discovered 'Exomoon' – A Moon Outside The Solar System
Previous claims of exomoon discoveries haven’t stood up well to replication, but perhaps a new method will have more success.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A Wobbling Brown Dwarf Might Be A Sign Of The First Discovered 'Exomoon' – A Moon Outside The Solar System
Enormous Anaconda Fossils Reveal They Got Big 12 Million Years Ago – And Stayed Big
Enormous Anaconda Fossils Reveal They Got Big 12 Million Years Ago – And Stayed Big
Most animals have shrunk or gone extinct in that time, but not anacondas.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Enormous Anaconda Fossils Reveal They Got Big 12 Million Years Ago – And Stayed Big
18 Asteroids Passed Earth Closer Than The Moon In November – All Of Them Were Discovered That Month
18 Asteroids Passed Earth Closer Than The Moon In November – All Of Them Were Discovered That Month
Watch this nifty little graphic of their orbits.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
18 Asteroids Passed Earth Closer Than The Moon In November – All Of Them Were Discovered That Month
People Sailed To Australia And New Guinea 60,000 years ago
People Sailed To Australia And New Guinea 60,000 years ago
Some came straight from mainland Southeast Asia. Others came via the Philippines.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
People Sailed To Australia And New Guinea 60,000 years ago
How Do Cells Know Their Location And Their Role In The Body?
How Do Cells Know Their Location And Their Role In The Body?
Evolution has made us very reliant on specialist organs, but they only work if they’re in the right place.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
How Do Cells Know Their Location And Their Role In The Body?
“Ego Death”: How Psychedelics Trigger Meditation-Like Brain Waves
“Ego Death”: How Psychedelics Trigger Meditation-Like Brain Waves
The study investigated how DMT alters brain wave criticality.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“Ego Death”: How Psychedelics Trigger Meditation-Like Brain Waves
What Are Those Strange Eye 'Floaters' You See In Your Vision?
What Are Those Strange Eye 'Floaters' You See In Your Vision?
Do my eyes deceive me?
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December 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
What Are Those Strange Eye 'Floaters' You See In Your Vision?
Have We Finally 'Seen' Dark Matter? Mysterious Ancient Foot May Be From Our True Ancestor, And Much More This Week
Have We Finally 'Seen' Dark Matter? Mysterious Ancient Foot May Be From Our True Ancestor, And Much More This Week
All the biggest science news stories of the week.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Have We Finally 'Seen' Dark Matter? Mysterious Ancient Foot May Be From Our True Ancestor, And Much More This Week
The Unexpected Life Hiding Out In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Unexpected Life Hiding Out In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Coastal animals have hitched rides to the remotest part of the ocean by clinging to plastic pollution.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Unexpected Life Hiding Out In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Scientists Detect “Switchback” Phenomenon In Earth’s Magnetosphere For The First Time
Scientists Detect “Switchback” Phenomenon In Earth’s Magnetosphere For The First Time
A probe detected a zigzag-like disturbance in the magnetic frontier between the Earth and the Sun.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Scientists Detect “Switchback” Phenomenon In Earth’s Magnetosphere For The First Time
The Science Of Magic: Find Out More In Issue 41 Of CURIOUS – Out Now
The Science Of Magic: Find Out More In Issue 41 Of CURIOUS – Out Now
Does imagination decline as we age? Are there plants that can photosynthesize by moonlight? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The Science Of Magic: Find Out More In Issue 41 Of CURIOUS – Out Now
Inside Your Bed’s 'Dirty Hidden Biome' And How To Keep Things Clean
Inside Your Bed’s 'Dirty Hidden Biome' And How To Keep Things Clean
We explore the tiny creatures that call our beds home and how to keep sheets clean.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Inside Your Bed’s 'Dirty Hidden Biome' And How To Keep Things Clean
Why Are People Being Asked To Put Bowls Of Salt In Their Windows This Winter?
Why Are People Being Asked To Put Bowls Of Salt In Their Windows This Winter?
Worth a shot, I guess?
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November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Why Are People Being Asked To Put Bowls Of Salt In Their Windows This Winter?
11 Of The Last Spix's Macaws In The Wild Struck Down With A Deadly, Highly Contagious Virus
11 Of The Last Spix's Macaws In The Wild Struck Down With A Deadly, Highly Contagious Virus
These guys can't catch a break.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
11 Of The Last Spix's Macaws In The Wild Struck Down With A Deadly, Highly Contagious Virus
Meet The Rose Hair Tarantula: Pink, Predatory, And Popular As A Pet
Meet The Rose Hair Tarantula: Pink, Predatory, And Popular As A Pet
The prettiest tarantula.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Meet The Rose Hair Tarantula: Pink, Predatory, And Popular As A Pet
'We Will Build The Gateway': Lunar Gateway’s Future Has Been Rocky – But ESA Confirms It’s A Go
'We Will Build The Gateway': Lunar Gateway’s Future Has Been Rocky – But ESA Confirms It’s A Go
The Trump Administration's proposed budget put the project on the chopping block, but ESA has confirmed its commitment to the first international space station to orbit the Moon.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
'We Will Build The Gateway': Lunar Gateway’s Future Has Been Rocky – But ESA Confirms It’s A Go
There Could Be 10,000 More African Forest Elephants Than We Thought – But They’re Still Critically Endangered
There Could Be 10,000 More African Forest Elephants Than We Thought – But They’re Still Critically Endangered
Advances in survey techniques and DNA monitoring have led to a more reliable population count.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
There Could Be 10,000 More African Forest Elephants Than We Thought – But They’re Still Critically Endangered
This 'Dead Leaf' Is Actually A Spider That's Evolved As A Master Of Disguise And Trickery
This 'Dead Leaf' Is Actually A Spider That's Evolved As A Master Of Disguise And Trickery
Leaf me alone.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This 'Dead Leaf' Is Actually A Spider That's Evolved As A Master Of Disguise And Trickery
Why The 17th Century Was A Really, Really Dreadful Time To Be Alive
Why The 17th Century Was A Really, Really Dreadful Time To Be Alive
This sounds awfully familiar.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Why The 17th Century Was A Really, Really Dreadful Time To Be Alive
We Finally Know Where Pet Cats Come From – And It’s Not Where We Thought
We Finally Know Where Pet Cats Come From – And It’s Not Where We Thought
The stars of the internet have only been around for two millennia.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We Finally Know Where Pet Cats Come From – And It’s Not Where We Thought
Why Do Barnacles Attach To Whales?
Why Do Barnacles Attach To Whales?
An age-old friendship between the very big and the very small.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Why Do Barnacles Attach To Whales?
If You Had A Pole Stretching From England To France And Yanked It, Would The Other End Move Instantly?
If You Had A Pole Stretching From England To France And Yanked It, Would The Other End Move Instantly?
If you answered 'yes'; congratulations, you have broken causality.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If You Had A Pole Stretching From England To France And Yanked It, Would The Other End Move Instantly?
Crows Can Hold A Grudge Way Longer Than You Can
Crows Can Hold A Grudge Way Longer Than You Can
There's a reason they go around in murders.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Crows Can Hold A Grudge Way Longer Than You Can
Cyclical Time And Multiple Dimensions Seen in Native American Rock Art Spanning 4,000 Years Of History
Cyclical Time And Multiple Dimensions Seen in Native American Rock Art Spanning 4,000 Years Of History
A total of 175 generations of painters followed the same set of rules when depicting the cosmos at Pecos River.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Cyclical Time And Multiple Dimensions Seen in Native American Rock Art Spanning 4,000 Years Of History
Fossil Foot Shows Lucy Shared Space With Another Hominin Who Might Be Our True Ancestor
Fossil Foot Shows Lucy Shared Space With Another Hominin Who Might Be Our True Ancestor
Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows some closer resemblance to our later ancestors.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Fossil Foot Shows Lucy Shared Space With Another Hominin Who Might Be Our True Ancestor