We’ve watched it speed through the solar system using the most powerful telescopes in human history. We’ve studied its light with probes whipping around the sun and robots marooned on Mars. Countless eyes watched it make its closest approach to…
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Can A Whale Swallow A Human?
In mythology, the whale’s belly represents a place of death and rebirth, a watery abyss in which one must face one’s own darkness before emerging transformed. In reality, being swallowed by a whale is nigh-on impossible – though there is…
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Ancient oceans were ruled by super predators unlike anything today
Around 130 million years ago, the ocean’s most dominant hunters held far more power than any marine predator alive today. Recent research from McGill University reveals that during the Cretaceous period, some sea creatures sat at the very top…
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Gum Disease Linked to Heart Risks : ScienceAlert
A review by the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Committee strengthens the case that keeping our gums healthy helps protect against heart disease.
Informed by a decade’s worth of literature that includes genetics…
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Breaking Ground Crossword
Solve the crossword from our January 2026 issue, in which we take a crack at geological principles
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Time Moves Faster on Mars, And Scientists Finally Know by How Much : ScienceAlert
Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that clocks on Mars tick 477-millionths of a second (or 477 microseconds) faster per day, on average, compared to Earth…
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Latest Comet 3I/ATLAS news: Comet close approach today
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Did you see it? Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just zoomed past Earth!
A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini North on Maunakea in… Continue Reading
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peer reviews created using AI can avoid detection
The difficulty of detecting AI-tool use in peer review is proving problematic.Credit: BrianAJackson/iStock via Getty
It’s almost impossible to know whether a peer-review report has been generated by artificial intelligence, according to a study…
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Are we living in a parallel universe? The strange physics of Stranger Things
In Stranger Things, the supernatural villain Vecna rules a nightmarish parallel world called the Upside Down. Credit: Netflix/Everett/Shutterstock
Throughout its five seasons, the Netflix show Stranger Things follows a ragtag group of teenagers…
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Stopping the next pandemic — Harvard Gazette
It began with some intriguing scientific discoveries.
A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called “emerging diseases” such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what…
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