Hawaii Science Monitor

A Blood Test Could One Day Detect Over 50 Types of Cancer — What That Means for Cancer Care

Learn about the amazing wound healing process of a tiny jellyfish, in which cells "walk" toward each other to close wounds.

MRI Scans Reveal That Pregnancy Restructures the Brain — but Why It Transforms Remains a Mystery

New tests claim to detect more than 50 types of cancer from a single blood sample, but more research is still needed. Discover more about it.

Marlborough Mound Is the Second-Largest Neolithic Structure in Britain — and Legend Claims It Contains Merlin's Bones

Scientists are studying what pregnancy does to the brain and how it does so, shedding light on a long-understudied area of neuroscience.

Skeletal Clues of a 9,000-Year-Old Woman Shaman Show How She Induced Ecstatic Behavior During Spiritual Rituals

Marlborough (aka Merlin’s) Mound is the second-largest Neolithic mound in Britain, and possibly in Europe. Learn more about its long and unique history.

Heat Waves Are Among the Deadliest Weather Disasters in the U.S., Pushing the Human Body to Its Breaking Point

Meet the Bad Dürrenberg shaman and how lavish grave goods help us paint a picture of shamanistic practices of the Middle Stone Age.

Jun 30, 2026

Rare Powassan Virus Can Lead to Serious Brain or Spinal Cord Inflammation, and Cases are Rising in the U.S.

Learn what happens to our bodies during extreme heat and why heatwaves in the U.S. have a higher mortality rate than hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods combined.

Powassan and babesiosis surge

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Marigold Petals May Contain as Much Protein as Some Grains, Plus the Amino Acid Behind Umami

Learn how Powassan virus spreads through infected ticks, why cases in Maine and Rhode Island are raising concern, and what symptoms can make the infection dangerous.

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

Learn how marigold petals contain plant-based protein comparable to quinoa, umami-linked amino acids, and properties that could turn flower waste into future food ingredients.

The Universe May Contain Minds Stranger Than We Can Imagine

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

Consciousness beyond biological life

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Fossil Skull From a Museum Drawer Reveals Obscure Saber-Toothed Cat Species With Knife-like Teeth

Learn about a new working paper that argues that consciousness may not be limited to Earth, raising the possibility of alien minds — and perhaps even AI — built from radically different materials.

Jun 29, 2026

Ancient saber toothed cat fossil

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Human Childbirth May Not Be Uniquely Difficult, as Some Squirrel Monkey Babies Have Heads Nearly Twice the Size of Their Mothers' Pelvic Space

Learn about a surprise find of an early saber-toothed cat skull in a museum drawer, revealing how the teeth of ancient cats evolved.

Human childbirth not uniquely difficult

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Robotic Servicing Spacecraft Will Soon Blast into Orbit, to Try to Save a 1.5-Ton NASA Satellite From Reentry

Learn how 3D models of primate birth canals found that squirrel monkeys, bushbabies, and other small species may face a tighter squeeze than humans.

NASA boosts Swift telescope

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Could a Common Allergy Pill and Heartburn Medication Combination Really Ease PMS Symptoms?

Learn more about the Swift satellite, why it's slowly being dragged back to Earth, and how LINK will help keep it in space.

A Herculaneum Scroll Is Readable Again Nearly 2,000 Years After Vesuvius Buried It

Learn how a viral TikTok trend pairing allergy and heartburn medications for PMS and PMDD might have a biological basis and why experts still urge caution.

AI deciphers Herculaneum scrolls

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A 'StormWall' Could Shield Earth From Devastating Solar Storms

Learn how AI and CT scans recovered 22 columns of ancient Greek text from a scroll burned in the 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius eruption.

Long-Lost Megalodon Fossils Confirm the Giant Shark Could Reach 80 Feet Long

Learn more about "StormWall," what it is, and how it will keep Earth safe from potentially dangerous solar storms.

Jun 28, 2026

Lost megalodon vertebrae confirm size

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Discover Magazine / 4d

Learn how long-lost Megalodon vertebrae confirmed the giant shark’s size, revealed its age, and preserved the first fossil evidence of what it ate.

Jun 27, 2026

Feel Like You're on the Same Wavelength With Someone? Synchrony Is Real, and May be Strengthened

Discover Magazine / 5d

Learn how brainwave synchrony could help explain why people feel connected and how real-time feedback may strengthen that bond.

Jun 26, 2026

Rare Camel Bones Found in Serbian Fortress Suggest Far-Reaching Medieval Trade Networks

31 New Species Found off Brazil Reveal a Fragile World in the Ocean’s Midwater

Learn how studying animal bones from historic sites tells detailed stories about the lives of their occupants, from what they ate to how they traded.

1121 and 31 species discovered

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A Young Giraffe Went Strangely Missing in Texas, and the Two-Week Search Revealed the Complex World of Exotic Wildlife

Learn how shipboard DNA sequencing, 3D imaging, and deep-sea tools helped researchers identify delicate ocean animals within days.

Giraffe Gracie missing in Texas

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Arrives in Florida, New Treatment Could Relieve Knee Pain Without Surgery, and a Cave Full of All-Female Skeletons

Learn more about Gracie, a giraffe who has been missing for two weeks in a part of Texas known for the breeding, buying, and hunting of exotic animals from around the world.