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Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo Gives USA Grad Students 500 Samples in 72 Hours
University of South Alabama graduate students harvested roughly 500 biological samples from red snapper and grouper at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, building a dataset on Gulf of Mexico deep-reef fish that conventional research vessels cannot cost-effectively replicate.
Antikythera Mechanism: The Ancient Greek Computer 1,400 Years Ahead of Its Time
Recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism is the oldest known analogue computer on Earth — a hand-cranked bronze device built around 100–150 BCE that used interlocking gears to model the cosmos and forecast solar and lunar eclipses decades in advance.
Penn Dixie Fossil Park: Split Open Shale and Keep a 375-Million-Year-Old Find
At Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve in Hamburg, New York, visitors can split open 375-million-year-old shale and legally pocket trilobites, brachiopods, and horn corals they uncover themselves — one of the only find-it, keep-it public dig sites in the US.
Some Dinosaurs Laid Soft, Leathery Eggs — and We Almost Missed It
A landmark 2020 study used molecular chemistry to prove that iconic dinosaurs like Mussaurus and Protoceratops laid soft, leathery eggs — overturning more than a century of assumption about how dinosaurs reproduced.
New Horizons Woke Up 6 Billion Miles Away After a Record 321-Day Silence
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft woke itself from a record 321-day hibernation on June 23, 2025, nearly 6 billion miles from Earth, resuming humanity's only active scientific mission in the outer solar system beyond Pluto.
Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug Targets Tau — and Cut Symptom Risk in Half
A Biogen drug called diranersen slashed Alzheimer's symptom risk by half in a high-risk subgroup by blocking tau production before it misfolds — the strongest early signal yet that tau is a viable drug target.Load More
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