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Ancient Antarctic ice is revealing a surprising new chapter in Earth's climate story, stretching back 3 million years. By analyzing tiny pockets of trapped air and rare gases, scientists have discovered that while the planet cooled significantly- ...

Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren't the sleek, limbless creatures we know today--they still had hind legs and even a cheekbone that has almost vanished in modern species. A remarkably preserved fossil of Najash rionegrina from Argentina has ...

A fresh mystery is unfolding inside Egypt's pyramids. Researchers have discovered two hidden air-filled voids lurking behind the smooth eastern face of the Menkaure pyramid--an area long suspected to conceal something unusual. Using advanced, non ...

Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By combining a specially designed neural network with precise 3D tracking of particles in a dusty plasma--a strange "fourth state ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million years ago. At McGraths Flat, scientists have uncovered fossils preserved in astonishing detail--not in typical rock like ...

A new minimally invasive procedure may help people keep weight off after stopping popular drugs like Ozempic and semaglutide--something most patients struggle with. In a clinical trial, those who underwent a technique called duodenal mucosal ...

Scientists have mapped how Earth's deepest mantle is being deformed--and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried thousands of kilometers underground. Using a massive global dataset of seismic waves, they found that most deformation ...

Ancient DNA from a tomb near Paris reveals a shocking prehistoric reset: one population vanished and was replaced by newcomers from the south. The two groups show no genetic connection, signaling a major upheaval around 3000 BC. Disease, including .. ...

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look identical when measured locally but are actually different overall. For decades, researchers suspected this might be possible ...

Scientists have uncovered a fascinating new species of pit viper in Myanmar that seems to blur the very definition of what a species is. This snake, now named the Ayeyarwady pit viper, puzzled researchers because it looks like a mix between two known ...