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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.

A Total Solar Eclipse and the Perseids Meteor Shower Will Share the Sky in August 2026

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:15:00 GMT

Why August 12, 2026, could be one of the most exciting dates on the astronomical calendar.

Melting Ice Didn't Trigger Yellowstone Eruptions — but It May Have Sparked Hydrothermal Explosions

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:47:00 GMT

Learn more about glacial periods in Yellowstone National Park and how they may be connected with hydrothermal activity.

NASA's Viking I Landed on Mars 50 Years Ago and Transformed the Search for Life

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Learn more about Viking I and Viking II and how these missions changed what we know about Mars.

Slowing Biological Aging May Be GLP-1 Drugs' Next Medical Frontier

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:45:00 GMT

Learn how studying DNA-based age markers in people with HIV helps us understand how GLP-1 drugs could slow molecular clocks.

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid May Have Come From a Rare Class of Meteorites

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:15:00 GMT

Learn more about the rare composition of the Chicxulub impactor.

An Obscure Asteroid Turns Out to Be a Dark Comet — a Mysterious Group of Hidden Comets

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Learn about an object in space that has emerged as a dark comet, displaying a much fainter glow than most comets.

A Tiny Electrical Gate in Nerve Cells May Be Behind Excessive Sweating

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:45:00 GMT

Learn how an inherited genetic change may cause excessive sweating by making the nerves that control sweat glands respond too strongly.

Nearly 4,000 Years Ago, Egyptian Princesses Took Bows and Blades to Their Graves and May Have Used Them in Life

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:21:00 GMT

Learn how the bones of ancient Egyptian princesses suggest they trained with the bows, arrows, and blades buried beside them.

1.3 Billion Years Vanished From the Grand Canyon's Rock Record — a Cold Case That Has Puzzled Geologists Since the 1860s

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:57:00 GMT

Learn why the Great Unconformity is a major mystery in the Grand Canyon, how geologists are trying to crack the case, and how it may exist in your own backyard.

Long COVID May Injure the Brain's Dopamine System, the First Images of Shackleton's Last Ship, and A New Species of Monkey Discovered

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:41:00 GMT

Discover the top stories from July 11 to July 17, 2026, including new details about the effects of long COVID and an elusive orange-faced monkey species.

A Full Moon May Hide the Faint Meteors of the 2026 Southern Delta Aquariids — Here's How to See Them Anyway

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Learn more about the 2026 Southern Delta Aquariids meteor shower, when it will peak, and the best place to see them.

Bones From Underwater Caves May Hold New Clues to Ancient Megafauna

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:30:00 GMT

Researchers identified telltale "fingerprints" left by different cave environments that could help reconstruct the history of megafauna fossils.

Rocky Planet 48 Light-Years Away May Be First in a Habitable Zone With a Confirmed Atmosphere

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Learn how astronomers confirmed an atmosphere on rocky exoplanet LHS 1140 b, located 48 light-years away in its star’s habitable zone.

A New Orange-Faced Monkey Was Discovered Deep in the Congo — and It May Already Be Endangered

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:30:00 GMT

Learn more about Colobus congoensis, the fifth new monkey species discovered in Africa in the last 75 years.

We’ve Barely Mapped the Observable Universe — but Human Curiosity Is Driving the Biggest Maps Ever Made

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:48:00 GMT

Learn more about space exploration, the tools we use to search the stars, what we’ve found so far, and the overview effect, a phenomenon many astronauts, including Sunita Williams, experience when looking down at Earth from space.