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Earth’s continental plates were moving 3.48 billion years ago

The arid hills of Western Australia’s Pilbara region contain the earliest evidence yet of tectonic plates sliding...

A new study questions when people first reached South America

A landmark archaeological site in Chile may be thousands of years younger than originally thought, a new...

How warming is shifting microbial worlds

At first glance, Harvard Forest seems like an ordinary woodland. Oak trees shade the terrain among small...

Get Ready for a Year of Chaotic Weather in the US

Despite being declared the third-hottest year on record, 2025 was a relatively quiet year for climate disasters...

A static electricity mystery comes to the surface

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

To make a ‘Snowball Earth,’ sci-fi moves fast. Geology is far slower

Here are some ways the world might end in ice, according to science fiction. Earth freezes. Humankind’s...

Sharks are ingesting drugs in the Bahamas

Sharks off the coast of the Bahamas are getting into drugs like cocaine, caffeine and painkillers —...

A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award

Today it’s widely acknowledged that the future of computing will involve the quantum realm. Companies like Google,...

Platypus fur has a surprising feature seen only in bird feathers

Platypuses just got weirder. As if a mammal that lays eggs, senses electricity with its bill and...

City skylines influence cloud formation above them

Skyscrapers don’t just reshape a city’s skyline; they may also shape the sky itself.Nighttime satellite observations show...

Are pig organs the future of transplantation?

Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Smartwatch data can be used to assess early diabetes risk

The data your smartwatch already collects could soon help flag an early warning sign for type 2...
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