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This week in science: New evidence suggests Breaking Bad was more accurate than we thought; a bizarre fossil bares the world’s oldest butthole; the strange effects alcohol has on the brain; and much more!

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured speeding through the solar system by Jupiter-bound spacecraft

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In 1957, an amateur archaeologist working at a Native American site in Maine discovered a perplexing treasure: a 900-year-old silver Norse coin that dated to the late Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066).

The artifact, sometimes called the “Maine…

A brand new image captured by one of Earth’s biggest astronomical observatories shows the centre of our Galaxy in detail never seen before.

The new image of the middle of the Milky Way was captured using an array of telescopes located in the…

On March 2-3, 2026, the full worm moon will cruise through Earth’s shadow and become a…

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Charles Darwin is celebrated for describing “natural selection”, the way organisms evolve through random small…

Most people living outside Africa carry small traces of Neanderthal DNA. These inherited fragments appear across many human chromosomes. One part of the genome stands apart. The human X chromosome contains long regions where Neanderthal ancestry…

UPDATE (Saturday, Feb. 28) – Firefly is now aiming to launch Alpha Flight 7 no earlier than Sunday, March 1, with the same launch window.
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(Friday, Feb. 27, 2026) – Firefly Aerospace is planning to launch an Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space…

At 5 am, social media fills with proof that the early risers have already won the day. Cold plunges. Journals. Sunrise runs.

Productivity gurus insist this is the routine that separates high performers from everyone else, reinforced by…

More than seven millennia ago, Stone Age mourners in what is now Sweden buried a boy with a crown of woodpecker feathers and, in another grave, interred a woman with multicolored fur-and-feather footwear, a new study finds.

These details were…