A 518-million-year-old ambulacrarian fossil from China suggests that the common ancestor of starfish and their relatives was not a burrowing worm; it was probably a tentacled animal that fed from the water around it.

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Honeybees pack tens of thousands of nestmates into a small space, a setup that should invite disease.

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Uranus and Neptune are often described as near-twins, but a new study suggests their chemistry, and possibly their histories, may differ more than expected.

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A fossil theropod vertebra about the length of a thumb, found in the Algarve region in southern Portugal, may be the oldest dinosaur remains ever discovered on the Iberian Peninsula.

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Officially named C/2026 S1 (Euclid), the comet turned up in images Euclid captured between September 16 and 24, 2026.

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The ‘love hormone’ oxytocin may rise and fall in tandem in cats and the people who live with them, according to a new study published in the journal iScience.

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Planetary researchers at the University of Sydney have proposed a new way to classify the soils of Mars, along with a new word for them: areth (the name comes from Ares, the Greek name for Mars).

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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new view of NGC 1827, an intermediate spiral galaxy seen edge-on in the constellation Columba.

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A tiny piece of amber from Myanmar has captured a defensive maneuver that lizards still use today: shedding part of their tail to escape a predator.

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A team of astronomers led by University of Warwick’s Dr. Mark Hollands has converted white dwarf spectra into the colors a human eye would perceive.

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Fucoidans -- compounds found in the cell walls of brown seaweed -- could one day help treat diseases driven by oxidative stress, though the substances are far from the pharmacy shelf.

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Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of early bird from the Late Jurassic Zhenghe Fauna of southeastern China.

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A fossilized braincase that sat in in the collection of the Natural History Museum in London for a century has been identified as Europe’s first megaraptoran dinosaur, a lineage once thought to have flourished mainly in the southern hemisphere.

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A new review paper published in the journal Nutrition Research Reviews points to nutrients in the nut that play roles in sleep biology.

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Tyrannosaurs sit at the top of the food chain in the popular imagination, but a newly described fossil from Alberta, Canada, suggests that a much smaller predator may have fed on the carcass of Albertosaurus sarcophagus, a tyrannosaur relative.

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Fossils from Montana show a small oviraptorosaur with a jaw that slid front to back, a feature shared with fruit-eating parrots.

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On October 11, 2026, NASA’s Perseverance rover reached 45.22 km (28.1 miles), edging past the 45.16 km (28.06 miles) logged by NASA’s Opportunity rover, which explored Mars from 2004 to 2018.

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Vanillin, the compound that gives vanilla its familiar taste, may have a future in treating wounds that refuse to heal, according to a review paper published in August 2026 in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.

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Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of polybranchiaspiform galeaspid fish from the Early Devonian of Yunnan, China.

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This fast radio burst, designated FRB 20240304B, is the most distant ever detected, having traveled more than 10 billion years across the cosmos to reach Earth.

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