Slowing Biological Aging May Be GLP-1 Drugs' Next Medical Frontier

Learn how studying DNA-based age markers in people with HIV helps us understand how GLP-1 drugs could slow molecular clocks.

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid May Have Came From a Rare Class of Meteorites

Learn more about the rare composition of the Chicxulub impactor. 

An Obscure Asteroid Turns Out to Be a Dark Comet — a Mysterious Group of Hidden Comets 

Learn about an object in space that has emerged as a dark comet, displaying a much fainter glow than most comets. 

A Tiny Electrical Gate in Nerve Cells May Be Behind Excessive Sweating

Learn how an inherited genetic change may cause excessive sweating by making the nerves that control sweat glands respond too strongly.

Nearly 4,000 Years Ago, Egyptian Princesses Took Bows and Blades to Their Graves and May Have Used Them in Life

Learn how the bones of ancient Egyptian princesses suggest they trained with the bows, arrows, and blades buried beside them.

1.3 Billion Years Vanished From the Grand Canyon's Rock Record — a Cold Case That Has Puzzled Geologists Since the 1860s

Learn why the Great Unconformity is a major mystery in the Grand Canyon, how geologists are trying to crack the case, and how it may exist in your own backyard. 

Long COVID May Injure the Brain's Dopamine System, the First Images of Shackleton's Last Ship, and A New Species of Monkey Discovered

Discover the top stories from July 11 to July 17, 2026, including new details about the effects of long COVID and ​an elusive orange-faced ​monkey species.

A Full Moon May Hide the Faint Meteors of the 2026 Southern Delta Aquariids — Here's How to See Them Anyway

Learn more about the 2026 Southern Delta Aquariids meteor shower, when it will peak, and the best place to see them. 

Bones From Underwater Caves May Hold New Clues to Ancient Megafauna

Researchers identified telltale "fingerprints" left by different cave environments that could help reconstruct the history of megafauna fossils.

Rocky Planet 48 Light-Years Away May Be First in a Habitable Zone With a Confirmed Atmosphere

Learn how astronomers confirmed an atmosphere on rocky exoplanet LHS 1140 b, located 48 light-years away in its star’s habitable zone.

A New Orange-Faced Monkey Was Discovered Deep in the Congo — and It May Already Be Endangered

Learn more about Colobus congoensis, the fifth new monkey species discovered in Africa in the last 75 years.

We’ve Barely Mapped the Observable Universe — but Human Curiosity Is Driving the Biggest Maps Ever Made

Learn more about space exploration, the tools we use to search the stars, what we’ve found so far, and the overview effect, a phenomenon many astronauts, including Sunita Williams, experience when looking down at Earth from space.

A Medici Duke's 1587 Death Fueled Centuries of Poisoning Rumors, Now Ancient DNA Points to Malaria

Learn how ancient DNA found in Medici family bones in Tuscany links two brothers’ deaths to malaria and challenges centuries of poisoning rumors.

Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their Bones, Helping Them to Communicate Over 6 Miles

Learn how elephants use their unique ear anatomy to detect ground vibrations and communicate across long distances.

Blood-Vessel-on-a-Chip Models Can Now Grow and Redirect New Capillaries

Learn how mechanical stretching helped lab-grown vessels sprout and redirect new capillaries, a step toward keeping engineered tissues alive.

Human Language May Be Secretly Built Around Safety, Challenging Decades of Thinking

Learn more about a new study challenging the commonly held belief that language is wired more for danger than for safety. 

Archaeologist Turns Over a Stone and Finds a Roman Guardian Hidden Near Hadrian’s Wall for 1,600 Years

Learn how a third-generation archaeologist uncovered a rare Roman guardian beneath a barrack near Hadrian’s Wall after more than 1,600 years.

As Voyager 1 Nears a Historic Distance, NASA Continues Shutting Down Instruments

Learn more about Voyager 1, when it is going to hit one light-day from Earth, and what will happen to it as it reaches deeper into space. 

T. Rex Tooth Marks Emerged From a Wyoming Bonebed of 3,000 Fossils, Along With One Deceptive Bite

Learn how a Cretaceous Wyoming bonebed preserved real Tyrannosaurus rex tooth marks alongside a dinosaur jaw that only appeared to have been bitten.

Meteorite That Crashed Into New Jersey Home Offers Chemical Clues on the Origins of Life 

Learn how a meteorite that struck a home in New Jersey has given scientists a chance to find molecules that played a crucial role in the origins of life.