Scientists Made Ice Stay Solid Above 2,000°C. The ‘Superionic Ice’ Could Be Found Inside Uranus and Neptune

The researchers squeezed water to millions of atmospheres and discovered a bizarre new form of ice.

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The Only Known Pelt of an Extinct Woolly Dog Has Returned Home to British Columbia After 160 Years

This extinct dog was raised for its wool and its only known pelt has finally returned to canada.

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Anthropic Says AI Could Make America Much Richer, Forecasting 33% GDP Growth by 2030. The Catch Is That Millions of Knowledge Workers Lose Their Jobs

AI could supercharge growth while pushing income from white-collar workers toward capital.

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Lion King Lied. We Had the Lion-Hyena Rivalry Backwards. It’s the Male Lions Who Are Looking for Trouble

GPS collars reveal hyenas retreating while male lions repeatedly close the distance.

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Elephants Know When a Strategy Stops Working and Can Quickly Change Course

Elephants struggled when scientists changed the rules but then adapted surprisingly fast.

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Homeowner Found a 1,100-Year-Old Viking Treasure Trove With 40 Pounds of Silver in Their Yard in Denmark

Hidden for centuries, the hoard reveals a Viking world where silver crossed borders, and its weight could matter more than its shape.

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Denver Residents Were Told to Let Their Lawns Die. Then They Saw Sprinklers Running Outside a Data Center and All Hell Broke Loose

A viral video shows sprinklers soaking a green lawn outside a denver data center during severe water restrictions.

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What Turned an Ordinary Primate Into a Species Capable of Civilization, Consciousness and Mass Violence? Evolution Still Has No Single Answer

What turned an ordinary primate into a species capable of civilization, consciousness and mass violence?

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An AI Formalized and Verified Fermat’s Last Theorem in 11 Days, a Task Expected to Take Years

Claude did not rediscover the proof. It made the existing one machine-checkable.

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Scientists Keep Finding the Same Mysterious Beat Across the Animal Kingdom, From Fireflies to Sea Lions

From fireflies to mammals, evolution may have tuned communication to the rhythm of neurons.

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Scientists Discover Bacteria That Can Make Testosterone Near the Prostate, With Potential Implications for Cancer

A newly discovered bacterial pathway turns a common steroid precursor into testosterone.

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Researchers Calculated What an Extreme Solar Storm Would Do to the US Power Grid and Economy the Numbers Are Staggering

Though less present in the public consciousness than hurricanes and wildfires, space weather represents a real and potentially significant threat to society.

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How Galileo Figured Out Nearly 400 Years Ago Why Human Giants from Folklore Could Never Actually Exist

Without different anatomical proportions, a scaled-up body would collapse under its own weight.

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Every Toilet Flush Can Send a Cloud of Microbes into the Air That Can Reach Your Breathing Zone

The plume can reach breathing height, but the actual infection risk remains uncertain.

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This Giant Inflatable Robot Ball Could Roll Into the Moon’s Darkest Craters

RoboBall is built to tumble where ordinary lunar rovers may not survive.

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A Solar Storm Knocked GPS Off by 33 Feet Across the US and Scientists Had Never Seen This Kind of Disruption

The event exposed a hidden weakness in systems that depend on precise positioning.

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What Are Those Orange Balls on Some Power Lines For?

Aviation marker balls don’t help with electricity flow or improve the efficiency of the power lines. But they do have a very important job.

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15,000-Year-Old Cave Art in Ireland Could Push Back Human Arrival on the Island by Thousands of Years

Ancient Irish cave art may reveal a lost Ice Age route from Wales.

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Ancient Egyptians Were Putting Some Strange Things into Their Paint

Protein traces reveal practical workshop recipes and a connection to the god Ptah.

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Birth rates have dropped around the world in the past two centuries. This started in France — and researchers now know why

It's one of the "big questions in history" — and it may have a lot to do with religion.

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These wolves in Alaska ate all the deer. Then, they did something unexpected

Wolves on an Alaskan island are showing a remarkable adaptation.

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China’s J-35 Fighter JeAppeared With a Mirror-Like Finish and Nobody Knows What It Does

It's some striking military technology.

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A Victorian Estate Agent Built a Virtual Property Tour Before Photography

Victorian buyers previewed distant mansions through lenses and creativity

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Your Smartwatch Is Probably Lying About How Many Calories You Burned, Finds Study That Put Popular Brands to a Lab Test

Popular watches often misjudge workout calories. Errors grow as body fat rises.

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Nepal Bet Big on Hydropower and One Devastating Flood Just Put That Strategy to the Test

A devastating flood hit nepal’s hydropower heartland and could make electricity 10% more expensive.

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The World’s Oceans Just Hit Their Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded at a Time of Year When They Should Be Cooling

Earth’s oceans are heating so fast that marine heatwave days have more than tripled since the 1990s.

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Russia’s Answer to Starlink Is Finally in Orbit but Its First Satellites Are Already Struggling

Rassvet could reshape battlefield communications, but its first production satellites are falling short.

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Meet Moroti Adegboyega, the 17-Year-Old Who Wants to Clean up Plastic by Making It Magnetic

His strange “black goo” and the robot he built could point toward a smarter way to clean polluted water.

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Scientists Have Engineered Lettuce and Tobacco to Make a Meat Protein

Plants can now make stable myoglobin.

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A 2000-Year-Old Ring Bears Pontius Pilate’s Name but One Letter Changes Everything

A disputed spelling points not to Pilate, but to a forgotten subordinate.

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