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For nearly a century, a strange band of 5,200 holes carved into a hillside has defied explanation. Stretching for nearly a mile along the edge of the Pisco Valley, Monte Serpe – "serpent mountain" – may have finally revealed its secrets to scientists. -
Archeologists say they have solved the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved monoliths scattered across high-altitude slopes and pastures where no ancient settlements ever existed. It's a story of worship and water. -
High on sheer cliffs in China, ancient coffins are wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet above the ground. These dramatic burials, now re-examined using ancient DNA, point to a broader practice where disparate cultures all had their own "sky graves."
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This animal's armor has upended a key law of evolution
January 13, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonFor more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates found in the skin of lizards – nature's chain mail – were an ancient feature that some lineages inherited and others later lost. But new evidence suggests this is entirely wrong. -
COVID lockdowns changed the beak shape of these city birds
January 11, 2026 | Chelsea HaneyWhen COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los Angeles city birds responded just as quickly, with measurable shifts in beak shape in offspring born during the lockdown period. -
Spray-on armor for plants offers a new tool for global food security
January 10, 2026 | Malcolm AzaniaBy adjusting a typical polymer synthesis, researchers have created a spray-on polymer solution that could save billions of tons of crops. It's harmless to plants, and weakens the cell membranes of a variety of harmful bacteria. -
Super-smart, eavesdropping dogs pick up new words like human toddlers
January 09, 2026 | Michael FrancoSpelling F-O-O-D or O-U-T might only get you so far around your dog if he or she is considered a Gifted Word Learner. Researchers have just figured out that even when you're not talking to them directly, they're still acquiring new terms. -
Earth built a nuclear reactor two billion years before we did
January 08, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonTwo billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own nuclear reactors. And they operated for hundreds of thousands of years, as the first signs of multicellular life emerged. -
Mysterious human-like creatures shared island cave with humans
January 08, 2026 | Michael FrancoA 26-ft deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same cave. The enticing possibility even exists that both species overlapped, sharing the space at the same time. -
World’s most powerful hypergravity machine is 1,900X stronger than Earth
January 07, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonChina has eclipsed its own – and the US – world record, building a monster underground hypergravity centrifuge that can model scenarios with 1,900 times the gravitational force of Earth, bending space and time with unprecedented power. -
Extreme drilling unearths secrets of disappearing ice dome
January 07, 2026 | Michael FrancoIn northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They found something startling: the dome completely disappeared 7,000 years ago. And it might do it again. -
'Microneedling' of plants could boost growth and reduce fertilizer waste
January 04, 2026 | Malcolm AzaniaA new thumb-patch of dissolvable microneedles injects biofertilizer directly into plant leaves. In lab tests, kale and choy sum grew taller and faster with bigger leaves and shoot biomass, using 15% less biofertilizer. -
The mystery of Japan’s underwater 'crop circles' has a romantic twist
January 03, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonIn 1995, divers first noticed a group of bizarre sandy "crop circles" on the seabed near southwest Japan. But it took decades for scientists to identify the marine artists behind them – and why they were building such geometrically precise structures.
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