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Scientists Just Found Something Unexpected in the Pages of Medieval Books
Scientists recovered sheep pox DNA from medieval parchment, helping trace a devastating livestock disease back more than 3,700 years.
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Scientists May Have Found a Secret Tomb Hidden Behind King Tut’s Burial Chamber
New scans suggest hidden rooms may lie beyond King Tut’s burial chamber, potentially leading archaeologists to Queen Nefertiti’s lost tomb.
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All Those Antidepressants You’re Peeing Out Are Messing With Fish, New Study Finds
Researchers found fish proteins can be far more sensitive to certain antidepressants, raising concerns about drugs entering waterways.
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Scientists Calculated How Long a Moon City Could Survive. The Results Aren’t Great.
A new study suggests a million-person lunar city could exhaust even an optimistic water supply within a century, despite extensive recycling.
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Chihuahuas Have a Little Wild Coyote in Them, New Study Finds
New genetic research identified DNA segments shared with coyotes in a Chihuahua, revealing an unexpected link to ancient canine ancestry.
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Scientists Just Found Evidence That Ancient Egypt Had a Female King 5,000 Years Ago
Researchers enhanced a decades-old photograph and found a royal emblem suggesting Meretneith ruled as a king, not merely a queen.
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Scientists Just Discovered a New Cat Species, and It’s Ridiculously Cute
A CDC report found 71.5% of adults experienced fatigue over three months, with young adults reporting especially high rates.
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Mercury Is Slowly Collapsing in on Itself, and It’s Worse Than We Thought
New research suggests Mercury has shrunk more than previously estimated as its cooling core causes the planet’s surface to contract.
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Photo: Henry Horenstein / Getty Images 25,000-Year-Old Teeth Reveal Ancient Humans Were Addicted to Nut Sucking
Traces of psychoactive betel nut found in ancient teeth suggest humans were deliberately using mind-altering substances far earlier than believed.
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2026’s Ig Nobel Winners Include Research on Buried Underwear, Cockroach Milk, and Urinal Splashback
This year’s strangest science honors also included research on kissing, teen body odor, nose-blowing aerodynamics, and mosquito 3D printers.
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Photo: Dave Hutchison Photography / Getty Images This 2.4-Acre Island Appeared, Disappeared, and Then Turned Up Somewhere Else
The 2.4-acre mass of trees and soil is actually a giant floating raft, pushed around a British Columbia reservoir by wind and high water.
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Photo: wildpixel / Getty Images Your Personality May Be Written Into Your DNA More Than We Realized, New Study Finds
A study of more than a million genomes linked 1,260 DNA variants to major personality traits, though genes explain only a small part of who you become.
