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QUICK FACTS Name: Urn with jaguars and skulls What it is: A ceramic burial urn Where it is from: Guatemala When it was made: Circa A.D. 600 to 900 This colorful ceramic urn depicts a person wearing a jaguar costume and surrounded by human skulls, about to be received into the Maya underworld. The urn once held the bones of an ancestor for their descendants to venerate. The urn was anonymously gif
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Researchers have developed a new type of interconnected architecture for quantum computing chips, and it could pave the way for machines capable of large-scale processing, including those with over a million qubits. In a study published June 15 in the journal APL Quantum , scientists aimed to resolve a huge problem with the leading quantum processing units (QPUs): Qubits struggle to communicate a
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by andrew.l.feldman@gmail.com (Andrey Feldman) / 23h
Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles these collisions sprayed out. If confirmed, that pattern could help reveal how the hot soup of quarks and gluons that filled the universe in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang cooled and condensed into the protons and neutrons that make up ordinary matter today. In ever
Quick facts What it is: An aurora on the sunlit side of Earth Where it is: Over the North Pole, as seen from about 75,000 miles away When it was shared: Sept. 30 The debut images from a new Earth-observing satellite have just given us a view of the impossible: giant auroras rippling over the North Pole in broad daylight. Earth's auroras are one of our planet's signature wonders — a sight worth ad
Oct 3, 2026
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In 2023, an African gray parrot named Jack went viral for mimicking the coughs and wheezes of her owner's father , who often struggled to breathe from severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease . But it wasn't just the imitation that made Jack famous; it was also that she seemed to relish the suffering of a man she purportedly hated. In the video, Jack's owner even claimed that she had a favori
About 1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections with viruses, bacteria or parasites, a new study finds, suggesting that one of the most effective ways to reduce cancer rates might be to prevent common infections. In a new analysis published Sept. 28 in the journal The Lancet Oncology , researchers mapped the global impact of 12 cancer-causing pathogens. They estimate that infections drove abou
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Mammals first appeared on Earth over 200 million years ago, scuttling around alongside the dinosaurs as little mouse-sized creatures. But after the asteroid hit 66 million years ago , it was their time to shine — and the Age of Mammals began. But the path to understanding our own branch of the animal kingdom hasn't been straightforward. In this excerpt from "The Story of the Mammals in 25 Disco
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Could a psychedelic drug help the brain recover from mild injuries? New research suggests that psilocybin, the mind-bending ingredient in magic mushrooms, might protect the brain from the damage caused by minor head impacts. Even mild head impacts that don't count as concussions can raise the risk of neurodegenerative disorders such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy ( CTE ), so finding an effec
by ashley.s.hamer@gmail.com (Ashley Hamer Pritchard) / 2d
Among the many risks astronauts face during long-haul spaceflight, an extended stay in microgravity is one of the most consequential for long-term health, with effects on vision, bones, muscles and many other aspects of the body. One solution might be artificial gravity — some way to create forces similar to Earth's gravity on a spaceship, akin to the giant rotating ring from Stanley Kubrick's 1
Oct 2, 2026
by lydiacarolinesmith@gmail.com (Lydia Smith) / 2d
Cape Cod is known for its lobsters and its growing great white shark population , but now the holiday hotspot has another extraordinary animal to showcase: A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin that is surviving against the odds. The baby turtle, which weighed just 0.18 ounces (5.2 grams), was brought to the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on Sept. 17, according to a Facebook
This year's exceptionally strong El Niño has brought a rare gift to Chile's Atacama Desert : rain. In one of the driest places on Earth, that rare moisture has awakened millions of seeds and bulbs that can remain dormant underground for years, transforming the landscape into a spectacular carpet of color. Known locally as " desierto florido ," or "flowering desert," the phenomenon is one of natur
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The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a new modeling study suggests. Previously, the earliest fossil evidence of animals dated to around 574 million years ago, during the Ediacaran period (635 million to 538 million years ago). In the new paper, a research team argues that we can't just rely on the spotty fossil record, and sug
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This year's "super" El Nino means the U.S. will likely face a higher risk of stormy weather and flooding , so experts are recommending Americans stock up on food. And flooding is just one of the natural disasters people will face — many people are at risk of wildfires , power outages or earthquakes. While some disasters are unexpected, preparation can make a significant difference in how much the
by kkillgrove@livescience.com (Kristina Killgrove) / 3d
Archaeologists have been arguing for more than a century about whether people first entered the American continents before, during or after the coldest peak of the last ice age, called the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Now, a new study of the available genetic evidence suggests the group that gave rise to today's Indigenous people migrated to the Americas no earlier than 21,000 years ago. "The evid
An engineer has utilized AI to break a previously unsolved cipher used by Napoleon Bonaparte to send secret messages to his generals — enabling us to read a 217-year-old letter for the first time. The announcement has historians excited about AI's potential to become a modern-day " Rosetta Stone " for translating coded historical messages. Carter Church , an AI engineer at cybersecurity firm Sent
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An international team has reconstructed the face of a man who lived in what's now Ecuador more than 3,000 years ago and whose skull featured in one of history's great anthropological debates. The facial reconstruction is based on the Punin-2 skull, which a farmer discovered in a ravine near the town of Punín in the Chimborazo region of Ecuador's central Andes in the 1970s. A similar skull, Punin-
Oct 1, 2026
A new AI tool that analyzes speech could give users a glimpse of how they are aging and whether they're at risk of dementia, a new study suggests. The tool analyzes hundreds of speech and language patterns to estimate the user's chronological age from the way they talk. In a study involving nearly 3,000 Spanish-speaking adults, those whose estimated age was higher than their actual age were more
Physicists unveil the most accurate atomic clock ever — and it could literally redefine the second
Scientists have created the most accurate atomic clock ever made — and it could literally redefine the second. Researchers recently unveiled the record-breaking device, which uses the vibration of atoms of an element called lutetium to precisely measure each microsecond. It is accurate up to 19 decimal places — a 41% improvement over the previous record holder. The results were published Sept.
The world's smallest crocodiles use a sneak attack to hunt bats in hellish underground caves filled with poop, a new video reveals. The footage of the never-before-seen behavior was captured for the upcoming National Geographic series "Africa: Earth's Wild Home" and offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Gabon's mysterious cave-dwelling dwarf crocodiles . Dwarf crocodiles ( Osteolaemus tetraspis
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Meriah DeJoseph grew up below the poverty line, so she was intrigued in college when she started reading what researchers had to say about people from low-income backgrounds. But there was something eating away at her. Although well-intentioned, the early research mainly focused on the risks of growing up in poverty. As she progressed through her education, studying how poverty affects children,
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