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Excavations at the Overfield Tavern Museum revealed a treasure trove of objects, including jewelry, dishware, a bottle cork, a smoking pipe and early American currency :focal(1024x770:1025x771)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws....
Frozen Proof: Oldest RNA Extracted from 40,000-Year-Old Mammoth Researchers from Stockholm University have made a groundbreaking discovery by extracting the oldest RNA molecules ever found, dating back 40,000 years, from the remains of a juvenile...
This Plus-Size Figure Skater is Inspiring Girls Everywhere with Her Jaw-Dropping Moves The winter Olympic viewership numbers don't lie: Honestly, is there anything more beautiful and graceful than ice skating? It's got the gorgeous aesthetics of ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy called NGC 6000, located 102 million light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. Stars of all ages are on display in this image. NGC 6000 has a glowing yellow center and glitt...
NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission launched at 3:55 p.m. EST atop a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The twin spacecraft, built by Rocket...
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Following successful small-scale tests over the past months, WhatsApp users in Europe will soon have the option to chat directly with users of messaging apps BirdyChat and Haiket through third-party chats. This marks a significant milestone in Meta's...
Before Curiosity landed 13 years ago, the science team eyed all the geologic wonders scattered across the flanks of Mount Sharp and looked forward to the day when they could put the rover to work on them. The team has visited many of these wonders — ...
Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Maya Cosmogram New Research Sheds Light on Ancient Maya Site in Mexico Five years ago, archaeologists announced the discovery of a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico known as Aguada Fénix. Bu...
After water, concrete is the most-used material in the world. And now, researchers have given this ubiquitous building material super powers. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has found a way to make a type of concrete that can store and r...
How a Stranger Helped Me Land the Job That Changed My Life One day an Iraqi engineering student at Columbia University met a young woman in a canteen who had stopped off in New York City with friends on her way to Europe. While casually chatting,...
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Led by Israel's Yad Vashem, the initiative has been underway since the 1950s. But it recently got a boost from artificial intelligence, which is helping humans search through the records. :focal(3360x2240:3361x2241)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianm...
Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds. The company claims it's a big step toward more general-purpose agents and better real-world robots. Goo...
Retired teacher Robert Beattie, now 82, has been digging up remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Recently, some of his fossil specimens have led to a scientific breakthrough. Uncovering a New Species Based on Beattie's fossils, resear...
A newly discovered carnivorous reptile that lived before the rise of dinosaurs has been identified in southern Brazil. Named Tainrakuasuchus bellator, the 240-million-year-old creature was an armor-plated predator belonging to the Pseudosuchia grou...
Harvard physicists have unveiled a new system that could help solve a long-standing barrier to the development of a new generation of supercomputers - the challenge of quantum error correction. In a paper published in Nature, the researchers demon...
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From a mock "bearial" to hourly train whistle blasts, Stanford's campus will come alive with tradition as students rally to reclaim the Axe ahead of the 128th standoff against Cal. It's coming. The 128th annual Big Game is Saturday, Nov. 22, the nex...
MIT researchers have created a polymer film so impermeable that even nitrogen molecules can't pass through it. This breakthrough material, known as 2DPA-1, could revolutionize corrosion protection for solar cells, food packaging, and infrastructure. ...
The Biology of Goosebumps Goosebumps, also known as piloerection, occur when tiny muscles in our skin contract, causing our body hair to stand on end. This is triggered by our autonomic nervous system, which controls involuntary bodily functions...
New Research Suggests Peru's Mysterious 'Band of Holes' May Have Been an Ancient Marketplace Researchers from the University of Sydney have uncovered new evidence that might solve one of South America's most enduring archaeological puzzles—the "B...
Moss as Forensic Evidence Moss, part of the bryophyte family, is one of the world's oldest and most basic plants. With over 12,000 known species, these hardy plants can thrive in shady, oversaturated soils where other vegetation struggles. This t...
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At the Roman fort of Bremenium in northern England, archaeologists have made an intriguing discovery - an intricately engraved red gemstone, known as an intaglio. This rare artifact was likely set in a signet ring and used by a Roman soldier statione...
For years, many chief information officers (CIOs) looked at VMware-to-cloud migrations with a wary pragmatism. Manually mapping dependencies and rewriting legacy apps mid-flight was not an enticing, low-lift proposition for enterprise IT teams. Howe...
Data scientist James Zou discusses new findings that reveal fundamental gaps in how language models understand human perspective. Evaluating AI's Ability to Distinguish Truth from Belief Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being us...
Bioengineers at Rice University have developed a nonsurgical method to control seizure-related brain activity using sound waves and gene therapy. The approach, tested in animal models, targets only the hippocampus - a region often linked to seizures ...
When we hear the term 'northern lights,' we often think of places like Alaska, Iceland, or Finland. Yes, there are times when we can view the aurora borealis in the United States. However, the southern part of the country often misses the show. The N...
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Musician Teaches Octopus to Play Piano It's hard to imagine humans having much in common with an octopus. Yet, a Swedish musician named Mattias Krantz discovered a surprising shared trait - the ability to play the piano. Krantz rescued a live oc...
"Soulful Duets" Playlist (LISTEN) Happy Music Monday! Your musical motorist Marlon West is back with a new collection of over ten hours of duets and collaborations between artists of many styles. From the rock and soul collabs of Mary J. Blige a...
Germany Launches 'Otus' Supercomputer Paderborn University has unveiled a powerful new supercomputer called 'Otus' that will enable scientists across Germany to tackle major research challenges through high-performance computing. Installed at th...
Record-Breaking Qubits Are Stable for 15 Times Longer Than Google and IBM's Designs One of the biggest challenges for quantum computers is the incredibly short time that qubits can retain information. However, a new qubit from Princeton Universit...
In October 2025, a 16-year-old student named Jared Lepora presented a robotic hand made entirely from LEGOs at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Hangzhou, China. Jared co-authored research on the project that ...
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Poo Bear's Live Songwriting Battle with AI: 'We're Always Going to Need Humans' At TEDNext in Atlanta, producer Poo Bear, known for hits like Justin Bieber's "Yummy," engaged in a live songwriting battle with an AI platform called Suno. The goal ...
In Goats We Trust When Mount Etna in Sicily rumbled this spring, news outlets around the world flashed dramatic photos of lava and ash. But Martin Wikelski was skeptical. The biologist, who directs the Department of Migration at the Max Planck In...
"Dance Jazz" (LISTEN) Happy Music Monday, everyone! It's your friend and selector, Marlon West, back again with a new collection of tasty jazz tracks to enjoy today and all week long. Not long ago, I was chatting with a pal who doesn't like jazz...
Native American Heritage Month and How to Be an Ally This Thanksgiving Native American Heritage Month begins in November, a month when many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. While this cultural month has excellent intentions, it is significantly ...
Building a Talking Robot Head Polish maker Nikodem Bartnik has created a robot head that can engage in lifelike conversations, answering questions like an ancient Greek philosopher. Lifelike Eyes and Custom Mask The robot's moving eyes were...
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No one knows the answer, and that's the point A few weeks after their arrival at the College, 15 first-year students settled into chairs for an unusual class — one with no answers. The brainchild of Dean of Science Jeff Lichtman, "Genuinely Hard...
World's First Transatlantic Robotic Stroke Surgery Performed A robot has collapsed the Atlantic Ocean into a blink, bringing remote stroke treatment closer to reality than ever before. Hours after Professor Iris Grunwald of Dundee performed the w...
Scientists Map the Brain's Construction From Stem Cells to Early Adolescence Like the seeds of a forest, a few cells in embryos eventually sprout into an ecosystem of brain cells. Neurons get the most recognition for their computing power, but a ...
World's Longest-Married Couple Shares Secret To 8 Decades Of Wedded Bliss What is the secret to a long-lasting marriage? People have wondered that forever. We see couples who appear so happy and in love, even decades into their relationship. If t...
Reese Witherspoon Returns to Harvard in a Different Role Reese Witherspoon, the acclaimed actress and producer, recently visited Harvard University in a new capacity - as an entrepreneur and media executive. Witherspoon, best known for her role a...