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Orcas Make a Dead Sunfish Explode With a Coordinated Body Slam, Possibly to Feed Juveniles or Just Have Fun

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Learn how orcas in the Gulf of California use coordinated body slams to break sunfish into thousands of pieces, possibly to feed juveniles or play.

Prion Diseases May Begin When Proteins Misfold, Triggering Rapid Brain Damage

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:30:00 GMT

Learn how prions can turn the body’s own proteins into a threat, and how studying this group of diseases could help us better understand dementia.

Eerie 2,100-Year-Old Statue, Skull Fragments, and Ruined Sword Hint at Ritual Activity in Ancient Gaul

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Learn how discoveries at an Iron Age settlement near Tours, France, connect ceremonial acts with moments of change, abandonment, and daily Gaulish life.

Two Children With a Rare Epilepsy Mutation Show Improvement After Personalized Genetic Treatment

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:45:00 GMT

Learn how personalized genetic therapy helped researchers treat two children with a rare form of epilepsy, enabling one to walk independently for the first time.

Microbes From Healthy Donor Stool May Help Treat Chronic Insomnia

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:30:00 GMT

Learn how capsules containing donor stool microbes improved sleep efficiency and reduced nighttime wakefulness in adults with chronic insomnia.

NASA's Psyche Flyby Captures "Rarely Seen Views of the Red Planet" as Mars Appears as a Thin Red Crescent

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:33:00 GMT

Discover more about NASA's Psyche mission and how it recently tested its instruments on the Red Planet.

Rare Arctic Bobtail Squid Filmed With Eggs in Remote Greenland Waters for the First Time

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:19:00 GMT

Learn more about the Arctic bobtail squid and why this new sighting is so important to understanding its ecology.

Ancient Ash in an Australian Cave May Have Helped Track the Footsteps of Spirit-Beings

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Learn how microscopic plant remains in Cloggs Cave connect 25,000 years of grass burning with GunaiKurnai magic and ritual traditions.

How Legionnaires’ Disease Can Turn Deadly as Bacteria Multiply Inside Immune Cells

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:30:00 GMT

Learn how Legionella bacteria invade the lungs and cause pneumonia, respiratory failure, and other life-threatening complications.

A Researcher Stopped Wearing Mineral Sunscreen Because of Its White Cast — Now She May Have Fixed It

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:15:00 GMT

Learn how a research team created a mineral sunscreen without a white cast, a change especially important for skin cancer prevention for those with darker skin tones.

Railway Excavations Uncover a 1,740-Year-Old Coin of Britain's Breakaway Roman Emperor

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Learn how archaeological work for England’s East West Rail uncovered Roman coins, Iron Age pottery, and evidence of ancient communities.

The Streisand Effect Shows Why Suppressing Information Can Backfire

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:15:00 GMT

Learn more about the Streisand effect, describing how efforts to censor public information may draw even more attention to an issue.

A 90,000-Year-Old Skeleton May Be One of the Earliest Known Victims of a Sharp-Object Attack

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:00:00 GMT

Learn about a fossil shedding light on violence and funerary practices during the Middle Paleolithic.

The Brain Develops Differently in People Born Blind — but Not in the Way Previously Thought

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:40:00 GMT

Learn more about the differences in brain structure for those born blind and how a new study is changing our understanding of these developments.

A New Solar 'Switch-Off' Signal Could Help Predict Future Space Weather

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:04:00 GMT

Learn about a new method to predict future solar activity by observing the Sun when its weather "switches off."

American Heart Association Deems 5 Cups of Coffee Safe but Warns Against Energy Drinks

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT

Learn how much caffeine is considered safe for your heart, why energy drinks may not be a great alternative, and why studying coffee's health impacts isn't so straightforward.

Newly Discovered Saqqara Tombs Preserve a 3,000-Year-Old Family Record

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Learn how inscriptions inside three rock-cut tombs preserve the families, careers, and foreign connections of ancient Egyptian officials.

An Archaeologist’s Cell Phone Light Uncovers a Hidden Medieval Wall Beneath Chester Crown Court

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:30:00 GMT

Learn how part of a nearly 800-year-old medieval castle thought to have been destroyed was found beneath Chester Crown Court.

Fossil Evidence Indicates Baby T. rex Were Tiny, but Deadly

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Learn what recently discovered fossils can tell us about this formidable dinosaur’s hunting style and why they were "unsafe at any size."

Are Wildfires Getting Worse? California’s Forest-Killing Fires Now Burn 30 Times More Forest Than 40 Years Ago

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:30:00 GMT

Learn how warmer air and decades of fuel buildup are turning California’s wildfires into increasingly destructive events.