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Scientists Keep Finding Major Discoveries Lurking in Museum Backrooms

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A Long-Lost Megalodon Fossil Found, The Strange Minds That May Exist in the Universe, and a Blood Test That Could Detect...

Discover the top stories from June 27 to July 2, 2026, including the return of a long-lost Megalodon fossil and a new blood test that could detect cancer from a single sample.

Rare Antelope Species Spotted, Strange Particle Behavior, Cannibalistic Single-Celled Organism, and an Anti-Aging Drug&a...

Discover the top stories from May 31 to June 5, 2026, that you may have missed, including a rare antelope species believed to be locally extinct and strange particle behavior that...

The Universe May Be a Hologram, a Strange "Cold Blob" in the Atlantic, and a Rare Lyme Bacterium Found...

Discover the top stories from June 6 to June 12, 2026, that you may have missed, including whether or not the universe could be a hologram and a rare Lyme bacterium found in New Yo...

Big impacts

New asteroid discoveries, big changes at NASA, and breathtaking views of Saturn.

Changes to Testosterone Therapy Warning Labels, the First Photograph of Earth's Quasi-Moon, and How Oysters Coul...

Discover the top stories from July 3 to July 10, 2026, including proposed FDA changes for testosterone therapy and a new photo of the rare quasi-moon.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope Arrives in Florida, New Treatment Could Relieve Knee Pain Without Surgery, and a Ca...

Discover the top stories from June 20 to June 26, 2026, including a surgery-free answer to knee osteoarthritis and a spider species that catapults its prey into a web.

A New Tiny Blue Octopus, Helium Shortage, Norovirus Outbreak in California, and the Texas <em>T. rex</em>

Discover the top stories from May 24 to May 30, 2026, that you may have missed, including a new species of tiny octopus and a mysterious outbreak of norovirus in California.

Newborn Pygmy Hippo Steals Hearts in Berlin, Your Cat May Not Help Relieve Stress, and a Sea Squirt Could Help Fight Can...

Discover the top stories from June 15 to June 19, 2026, including the sea squirt with a cancer-fighting ability and what Greenland's thawing garbage heaps can tell us about the pas...

A Newly Discovered 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb Is Remarkably Preserved but Faces Growing Flood Risks

Discover the latest major find in Egyptian archaeology with experts racing against a changing climate to protect ancient monuments.

Illegal Excavation Near Rome Uncovers Villa Linked to the Antonine Age

Learn how illegal digging near Rome exposed an Imperial-era Roman villa with mosaic floors, painted walls, and a marble statue.

Giant Underground Detector Releases First Major Findings on Ghost Particles

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A Superconductor’s Hidden Identity Revealed

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —  Sometimes, the biggest scientific discoveries come from looking more closely at something we thought we already understood. For decades, physicists h...

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NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center Researchers Unveil Latest Discoveries at 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting

At the forefront of oncology research, NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, has unveiled a series of g...

The Best Mushrooms for Beginner Foragers, How to Protect Baby Turtles, Where to Catch the Next Solar Eclipse, and How to...

Learn more about ways you can help baby animals, where to begin for foraging, and how to catch some epic solar eclipse events. 

24-year-old PhD student spotted a strange signal from space and uncovered one of astronomy's greatest discoveries

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Yet More Scrolls Burned by Vesuvius Are Decoded by AI–Revealing Insights by Unknown Stoic Philosopher

More insights into Classical literature have been recovered from the burned papyrus scrolls destroyed in the same eruption that buried Pompeii. They include ruminations on Stoic ph...

New Jersey Couple Aids Meteorite Discovery After it Crashes Through Their Roof

A New Jersey couple helped scientists uncover the makeup of an unusual asteroid after it fell into their bedroom.

New Alzheimer’s Discovery Could Change How Scientists Fight the Disease

Researchers have uncovered a previously underappreciated mechanism involved in Alzheimer’s disease and developed a compound that interrupts it. For decades, Alzheimer’s research ha...

Hidden Mozart Manuscript Reveals Rare Lesson Notes and Music Never Performed Publicly Before

Learn how a hidden manuscript was identified as Mozart's earliest known lesson notes and found to contain previously unknown compositions.

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