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Trash-Picking Seagulls Poop Hundreds of Tons of Nutrients
At least 1.4 million seagulls feed at landfills across North America, which aside from the nuisance it might pose, is also a threat to the
Human Activity has Polluted European Air for 2000 Years, Study Finds
A new study combining European ice core data and historical records of the infamous Black Death pandemic of 1349-1353 shows metal mining and smelting have
Artemis II Crew Launch Day Rehearsal
From left to right, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman are seen as they
Science history: James Webb Space Telescope launches — and promptly cracks our view of the universe — Dec. 25, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away.
The 9 best things to see in the night sky with binoculars from November 2025 to January to 2026
Discover the highlights of the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky with our guide to the top celestial sights to enjoy through binoculars between November 2025
Diagnostic dilemma: A man’s bladder looked like a Christmas tree
In an unusual case, a man’s bladder swelled dramatically at its base, taking the shape of a Christmas tree.
‘Gospel stories themselves tell of dislocation and danger’: A historian describes the world Jesus was born into
The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as they are in
‘It won’t be so much a ghost town as a zombie apocalypse’: How AI might forever change how we use the internet
AI slop, chatbots and agentic AI are changing the internet, and could transform it beyond recognition, experts say.
Guess the number quiz: Can you work out these scientific numbers and constants and top the leaderboard?
Do you know your mathematical equations from your scientific constants? If you know your numbers then try our daily quiz.
‘What the heck is this?’ James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere
Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.
First-ever ‘superkilonova’ double star explosion puzzles astronomers
A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen “superkilonova.”
In the snow, these salamanders get supercool
Blue spotted salamanders have been seen walking across snow and new research suggests how they get by in the cold. (Image credit: Peter Paplanus)
We now know much more about how our ancestor ‘Lucy’ lived — and died
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and