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Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York State cemetery

By Jackie Flynn…

Text By Meghan Rosen
Photos By Stephen Voss

April 14, 2026

Meteorites billions of years old, alienlike worms, a blue whale’s massive jaw bones. These are just some of the millions of marvels that the Smithsonian Institution has…

Long ago, a time existed before galaxies had drawn themselves together out of the primordial matter that filled the burgeoning Universe in the wake of the Big Bang.

How this process occurred, and what that matter consisted of, has long been…

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain its formation that way.

Astronomers…

A fiber-optic cable lying quietly on the seafloor has captured 56,000 iceberg break-offs in just three weeks. This experiment reveals, in remarkable detail, how glaciers fracture, collapse, and reshape the ocean around them. Glacial calving,…

A massive solar storm, capable of crippling satellites, GPS systems, and power grids, might seem like a scenario pulled from a science fiction novel. Yet, experts are sounding the alarm on the very real possibility of such an event. With our…

Jellyfish enjoy seasonal produce too. When the bottom-dwelling worms of Denmark’s fjords rise up in summer to spawn, they are predated by the resident jellyfish. The discovery, reported in Hydrobiologia, reveals a previously overlooked link…

What do astronauts near the moon do when it’s time to talk to their colleagues orbiting the Earth on a livestream?

They talk a lot about the view and food, apparently.

Astronauts aboard Artemis 2 and International Space Station (ISS) astronauts…