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Learn more about the medical treatments CRISPR could improve and the ethical concerns it raises.
Learn about the SpaceX rocket piece that is going to crash into the Moon on Aug. 5, 2026, and find out what might be visible from the impact.
Learn about ceramic frit pattern — the dotty design that makes your household appliances safer and more efficient.
Learn more about mad honey, how it's made, what it was once used for, and the reasons some people still use it today.
Discover a unique fossil find from the Australian Outback detailing how a large ichthyosaur preyed on a pterosaur before it became prey itself, a first of it's kind find.
Experts aren't exactly sure why animals smile. Discover what we do know about animal facial expressions.
More than 40 years ago, British citizens watched as a train pummeled into a flask built to hold radioactive material. Discover what this experiment proved about transporting nuclear materials by train.
Learn how a skull fragment from inland Spain is adding to evidence that human evolution in Europe followed no single path.
Learn how the fungus that turns ants into zombies also overruns mosses, revealing the bizarre way that it manipulates the insects it infects.
Learn how researchers uncovered two ancient human lineages without sequenced ancient DNA from either population.
Learn how female brains undergo unique changes while recovering from ketamine, a discovery that could help improve future psychiatric treatments.
Discover the top stories from July 25 to July 31, 2026, including the latest update on the Ebola outbreak and a new dinosaur discovery from Zimbabwe.
Learn how centuries-old DNA linked an extinct virus to European colonization and its spread through an Indigenous community in northern Chile.
Learn about a 30-million-year-old dog that climbed and ambushed prey, but lacked the ability to run for long distances like many modern dogs.
Learn more about some of the long-term effects of taking melatonin as an adult or a child.
Learn how specialists are recovering fragile woolly mammoth bones and investigating whether the Danube carried them to Ryahovo.