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13 July 2025This Ancient Child Wasn’t Fully Human—Scientists Now Believe She Was Something Else - The Daily Galaxy
When archaeologists unearthed this 5-year-old child’s skull, they weren’t prepared for what they’d find.
13 July 2025The Crescent Moon And Mars Will Appear Side By Side This Month In A Rare Celestial Event — Visible From SoCal - Secret Los Angeles
Experts anticipate optimal visibility for one of the most stunning astronomical events, as our Moon “joins” the Red Planet in the night sky.
13 July 2025Ancient Proteins from a 24 Million-Year-Old Rhino Open New Window into Evolution - Indian Defence Review
An astonishing discovery of ancient proteins from a 24-million-year-old rhino fossil is rewriting the evolutionary history of these majestic creatures.
13 July 2025How 380-Million-Year-Old Lungfish Jawbones Reveal the Origins of Earth’s First Land Animals - Indian Defence Review
How the jawbones of ancient lungfish reveal the fascinating evolutionary journey from water to land for Earth's first vertebrates.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/TAL-perseid-meteor-shower-BSTMETEORSHWR0725-a8e1390ea4ff4cad8930e8311f0b637c.jpg)
13 July 2025One of the Best Meteor Showers of 2025 Is About to Begin—and It Can Be Seen Across the U.S. - Travel + Leisure
The Perseid meteor shower peaks the night of Aug. 12 into the early hours of Aug. 13, with up to 100 meteors per hour visible, especially in dark-sky areas across the U.S.
13 July 2025The World’s Biggest Waterfall Is Hiding in the Ocean… And It’s Far Bigger Than Niagara Falls! - The Daily Galaxy
Beneath the Arctic waves lies Earth’s largest, unseen waterfall, a colossal force shaping our climate in ways you’ve never imagined.
13 July 2025Cyborg Beetles Could Be Unlikely Heroes in Future Disaster Rescues - ScienceAlert
Disaster victims trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building or mine may one day be rescued by a tiny and unlikely savior: a beetle with a backpack.
13 July 2025Experts ask where the center of the universe is - Space
With the universe constantly expanding, scientists have a hard time finding where its center is.
13 July 2025Study reveals how ancient elk rock art transformed from realistic to warped wolf-like beasts - Phys.org
A recent study by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, explores the transformation of elk rock art in the Mongolian Altai. Her research sheds light on the possible factors that influenced these changes, leading to rea…
13 July 2025Human-Constructed Dams Have Shifted the Earth’s Poles, Scientists Say - Gizmodo
New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift more than a meter.
13 July 2025Cannabis Use Is Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Discover - ScienceAlert
Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests – not in our DNA code itself, but in how that code is expressed.
13 July 2025Feast your eyes on the shortlisted pics for the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards (photos) - Space
The winners will be announced during a ceremony in September.
13 July 2025Scientists Injected 40,000-Year-Old Human DNA into Mice: What Emerged Has Left Everyone Speechless - The Daily Galaxy
Scientists in Japan have injected 40,000-year-old Neanderthal DNA into mice, sparking unexpected changes in their skeletons. The results offer surprising new insights into the ancient human species.
13 July 2025'Fossil Galaxy' Hasn't Changed in 7B Years - Newser
They're the 'dinosaurs of the universe'
13 July 2025A new Martian climate model suggest a mostly cold, harsh environment - Ars Technica
A model built using data from the Curiosity rover suggests wet periods were rare.
13 July 2025NASA's Parker Solar probe captures the closest-ever images of the Sun - USA Today
Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest-ever flyby.
13 July 2025Earth may have at least 6 'minimoons' at any given time. Where do they come from? - Space
"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers away."
13 July 2025James Webb and Hubble telescopes join forces to explore a cosmic nursery: Space photo of the week - Live Science
The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.
13 July 2025Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS - WIRED
A team of astronomers recently discovered the traveling space object, just the third of its kind to pass through our solar system.
13 July 2025What's Earth's lowest point on land? - Live Science
What's Earth's lowest spot on dry land — and how did it get to be that way?
13 July 2025The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York - Phys.org
For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
13 July 2025The "Haunting" Last Message From NASA's Opportunity Rover, Sent From Inside A Planet-Wide Storm - IFLScience
From inside a planet-wide storm, the Mars rover sent a final message.
13 July 2025Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding - ScienceDaily
For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to AI-powered genetic research, scientists have revealed a far more entangled history. Modern humans and Neanderthals didn’t just cross paths…
12 July 2025Our Universe's origin is indeed a Black Hole and not the Big Bang, reckons this new study - Neowin
The Big Bang may not be the beginning—new research suggests our universe could have bounced from a collapsing black hole.
12 July 2025"No Records. No Reason. Just Silence": 75 Scientific And Historic Mysteries Scientists Still Can't Explain - Bored Panda
Scientists have done a lot of good for our society that we should forever be grateful for, like generating enough knowledge to invent vaccines, electricity, the camera, and the Internet, among other things. They also help us answer important questions, such a…
12 July 2025Numerous Fossils Reveal Jurassic Fish Killed in Same, Bizarre Way - ScienceAlert
An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for overreaching.
12 July 2025Astronomers Discover a Mysterious New Plasma Wave Orbiting Jupiter - The Daily Galaxy
Jupiter is hiding a secret that could change the way we look at space.
12 July 2025NASA discovers a 'super-Earth' with possible oceans orbiting a nearby red dwarf star - Earth.com
NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's TESS telescope.
12 July 2025NASA, JAXA astronauts discuss upcoming Crew-11 launch to ISS - NASASpaceFlight.com -
NASA has updated the launch date for the next crew launch to the International Space…
12 July 2025The Earth’s Layers Have Been Flipped in This Place - The Daily Galaxy
Earth’s layers have been turned upside down, and scientists are stunned.
12 July 2025New clues from two million-year-old tooth enamel tell us more about an ancient relative of humans - Phys.org
For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy chewing with relatively massive jaws, and huge teeth with th…
12 July 2025Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way - Phys.org
Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass prevents galaxies from falling apart. But we don't know what it i…
12 July 2025Scientists Say Earth May Be Trapped Inside a Huge, Strange Void - Futurism
The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest mysteries.
12 July 2025Scientists Discover Mysterious 80-Million-Year-Old Landscape Hidden Beneath Antarctica - The Debrief
An international team of scientists have discovered a mysterious, ancient landscape hidden beneath the ice sheet of Eastern Antarctica.
12 July 202550 years after ‘Jaws,’ the number of white sharks off Cape Cod is growing. Scientists say that’s a good thing. - The Boston Globe
The white shark population has rebounded after accidental captures and recreational fishing decimated the species in the waters around Cape Cod.
12 July 2025Scientists discover a prehistoric animal that lived on Earth 259 million years ago - Earth.com
A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in pre-extinction pareiasaurs.
12 July 2025Permanent retention of exceptional trees can improve ecosystem integrity in managed forests - Phys.org
Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves. Uneven-aged management can bring compromise to conflicting l…
12 July 2025Fossil discovery in Greenland ice stuns and worries scientists: "Don't buy a beach house" - Earth.com
Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests a different past
12 July 2025Scientists Unearth 3,000-Year-Old Giant Trees in Tanzania – A New Species Found - The Daily Galaxy
Hidden deep in the remote jungles of Tanzania, 3,000-year-old trees, never before discovered by humans, hold secrets of a forgotten era!
12 July 2025Inside New Brunswick's ambituous plan for the world's densest dark-sky corridor - Space
Astrotourism is coming to Canada, thanks to an ambitious plan for a chain of six dark-sky sites along 100 miles of the spectacular Bay of Fundy coastline.
12 July 2025Elephants gesture with an intention to communicate their desires, study finds - Phys.org
Humans have long mastered the art of expressing their goals and needs through both language and gestures. A similar behavior is also observed in non-human primates, who use complex gestures to convey what they want, but does the use of deliberate gestures ext…
12 July 2025Massive Sunspot Erupts with Explosive Magnetic ‘Bombs’ Heading Toward Earth - The Daily Galaxy
A new sunspot is unleashing powerful "bombs" that could cause space weather disruptions. What should we expect as it turns toward Earth?
12 July 2025Don't miss the stars of the Summer Triangle twinkling in the eastern sky this weekend - Space
The Summer Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair.- 12 July 2025
Horrifying Research Finds Melting Glaciers Could Activate Deadly Volcanoes - Yahoo
Scientists are warning that glaciers melting due to global warming could trigger explosive and potentially deadly volcanic eruptions worldwide. As detailed... 
12 July 2025Bay Area home of famed Stanford physicist listed after 70 years - SFGATE
The property at 25671 Chapin Road, Los Altos Hills, is a Dutch Colonial home. It hit the market for $5.5 million after more than 70 years with one family.
12 July 2025Eruption unknown: The case of Yellowstone National Park’s newly recognized geologic unit - Idaho Capital Sun
Yellowstone National Park's geological history is one of the most intensely studied in North America. A new geologic unit gives clues.
12 July 2025Why is the blue-ringed octopus so deadly? - Live Science
The blue-ringed octopus is by far the most venomous octopus.
12 July 2025Planet Discovery Reveals Out-of-Sync Double Star System - ScienceAlert
Protoplanetary disks made of gas and dust form around young stars, and this is where planets from.- 12 July 2025
For a few days this summer, your days will be just a smidge shorter - The Washington Post
Earth will rotate faster on July 22 and August 5 by just a few milliseconds, thanks to our moon.
