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Montage of illustrations showing various times in our planet's history, from its fiery origins, through the dawn of life, dinosaurs and, finally, the present day. The final image shows a skyscraper surrounded by rising waters with a silhouette of a black sun on a red sky, indicating the perhaps unprecedented effects of climate change.

Earth

How hot can Earth get? Our planet’s climate history holds clues

Earth has survived huge temperature swings over eons of climate change. Humans might not be so lucky.

By Elise Cutts50 minutes ago

An image of a python, tongue out, on black background

Animals

A newly discovered cell helps pythons poop out the bones of their prey

By Bethany Brookshire21 hours ago

An artist's drawing of the ancient marine predator Temnodontosaurus, showing the serrated edge of its flipper.

How an ancient marine predator snuck up on its prey

By Carolyn Gramling22 hours ago

Gas blowing away from a baby star are shaped like a butterfly. They're outlined in orange, representing carbon monoxide gas, with some splotches of orange inside. Some blue blotches run in a horizontal line across the wings, showing a jet with silicon monoxide gas.

Planetary Science

This star offers the earliest peek at the birth of a planetary system like ours

By McKenzie Prillaman23 hours ago

Illustration of an empty crib with stark lighting. Over the crib, a bird from a mobile comes to life and flies towards the light, a poignant reminder of the innocent victims of child abuse.

Humans

No, shaken baby syndrome has not been discredited

By Tara HaelleJuly 16, 2025

Artistic reconstruction of a double explosion of a white dwarf.

Space

In a first, an image shows a dying star exploded twice to become a supernova

By Sofia Caetano AvritzerJuly 15, 2025

A pink brain faces to the left against a blue background. Brain diseases can be distinguished by proteins in the blood and spinal fluid a large new study suggests.

Health & Medicine

Protein signatures may one day tell brain diseases apart before symptoms

By Tina Hesman SaeyJuly 15, 2025

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Spotlight on Vaccines

A protestor wearing a black bucket hat holds out a hand-lettered white sign as silver car passes. The sign says "Vaccines cause adults." Vaccines is written in red and cause adults is in black.

Vaccine policy in the U.S. is entering uncharted territory

A key advisory group vows to base decisions on evidence, boost confidence in vaccines and protect health. Experts fear the opposite is happening.

By Tina Hesman SaeyJuly 2, 2025
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A person prepares to hit a squash ball with a racket.

No player can return this killer shot. Physics explains how it works

Squash’s killer “nick shot” has a formula. It’s all about height and timing, a new study shows.

Two killer whales are shown rubbing a small piece of brown kelp between their bodies. One whale is to the upper left. The other is to the bottom right. The second whale's nose comes about halfway up the first's body, lining up with its dorsal fin.

Killer whales may use kelp brushes to slough off rough skin

A black circle perfectly blocks the sun in an artificial solar eclipse. The sun's corona and wispy rays radiate from it in lime green.

Two spacecraft created their first images of an artificial solar eclipse

A whale shark looks toward the camera in an underwater photograph. Black-and-white striped fish swim in front of the shark and a scuba diver is in the distance.

50 years after ‘Jaws,’ sharks face their own terror

A seal with speckled gray and black fur swims through an underwater kelp forest, facing the camera.

U.S. seal populations have rebounded — and so have their conflicts with humans

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Earth

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