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60,000-year-old poison arrows from South Africa are the oldest poison weapons ever discovered

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired prey during long hunts.

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Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art — and scientists think they've managed to extract some

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be sure that the genetic material belongs to the Italian polymath.

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NASA telescope combines 100 maps of the universe into one: 'every astronomer is going to find something of value here'

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into one dazzling mosaic.

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9,500-year-old cremation pyre of a hunter-gatherer woman is the oldest of its kind in the world

Hunter-gatherers cremated the headless body of a woman in a pyre around 9,500 years ago in what is now Malawi.

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Huge ice dome in Greenland vanished 7,000 years ago — melting at temperatures we're racing toward today

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of the century.

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One of the last Siberian shamans was an 18th-century woman whose parents were related, DNA study reveals

A new DNA analysis of the mummies of historical Indigenous Yakuts reveals resistance to 17th-century Russian conquest.

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Last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals possibly found in Casablanca, Morocco

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

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'Mitochondrial transfer' into nerves could relieve chronic pain, early study hints

A new study reveals that nerve cells receive periodic infusions of mitochondria from neighboring cells — and this may point to a new way of treating nerve pain.

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Diagnostic dilemma: Giant 'stone' in a man's bladder looked like an ostrich egg

A man visited a hospital because of bladder discomfort, and his doctors discovered a remarkably large bladder stone.

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'How can all of this be happening?': Scientists spot massive group of ancient galaxies so hot they shouldn't exist

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic evolution.

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Advanced alien civilizations could be communicating 'like fireflies' in plain sight, researchers suggest

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our search for extraterrestrial life.

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The moon has been secretly feasting on Earth's atmosphere for billions of years

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based on NASA's Apollo lunar samples.

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1,100-year-old burials of elite warriors and their ornate weapons discovered in Hungary

The 1,100-year-old burials of three elite warriors — two of whom were possibly father and son — have been discovered in Hungary.

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Submerged sandbanks shine like underwater auroras in astronaut's view of the Bahamas — Earth from space

A 2016 astronaut photo of the Bahamas shows a series of luminous, rippling sandbanks partly carved out by a coral reef. The image also reveals subtle differences in the ocean's surface caused by a steep, hidden ocean drop-off.

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US government overhauls the childhood vaccine schedule in unprecedented move

Federal health officials are attempting to make the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule more like that of Denmark. Experts say the decision lacks scientific backing.

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'Wolf Supermoon' gallery: See the first full moon of 2026 in pictures from across the world

The first full moon of 2026 shone brightly Saturday (Jan. 3). Known as the Wolf Moon, it appeared more luminous and larger than usual, rising together with Jupiter.

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The Alfred Jewel: A 1,100-year-old treasure from England's first king that proclaims 'Alfred ordered me to be made'

This gold-encrusted jewel has an inscription revealing who made it.

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Did any cat breeds develop naturally?

Humans have undoubtedly bred cats to create certain breeds, but did any of these feline breeds emerge naturally?

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Giant 'cow of the Cretaceous' discovered almost 100 years ago identified as new duck-billed dinosaur

The dino lived during the Late Cretaceous alongside other hadrosaurids in present-day New Mexico.

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Mysterious Voynich manuscript may be a cipher, a new study suggests

A newly invented cipher may shed light on how the mysterious Voynich manuscript was made in medieval times.

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How common is it to have extra bones in your skeleton?

Adult human bodies typically have about 206 bones. But is it possible to have more?

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An experimental mRNA treatment counters immune cell aging in mice

A trio of mRNA molecules could help guard against the harmful effects of aging on immune cells, a study in mice finds.

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Will AI ever be more creative than humans?

A new study argues that AI can never be more creative than humans, but many experts argue that AI's output will only ever be as good as its input — with the goalposts shifting as AI improves in the years to come.

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Spotted Lake: Canada's soda lake with colorful brine pools that are smelly and slimy 'like the white of an egg'

Spotted Lake is a soda lake that evaporates every summer, leaving a white crust with circular brine pools that can appear blue, green or yellow.

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Why can't you wiggle your toes one at a time?

A biological anthropologist explains why humans can't wiggle their toes in the same way they can wiggle their fingers.

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