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Ancient Shipwreck With 650 Amphorae Found Intact Off Andros After 2,400 Years
A 2,400-year-old merchant vessel carrying an estimated 600 to 650 intact amphorae has been discovered on the Aegean seabed off the Cycladic island of Andros, Greece's Ministry of Culture announced — one of the most significant ancient shipwreck finds in the region in recent years.
Falcon 9 Reaches Orbit in 9 Minutes: How 24 Starlink Satellites Are Deployed
Every Starlink launch from Vandenberg's SLC-4E follows the same compressed arc: nine minutes from ignition to 24 satellites circling Earth at 17,500 mph. The Starlink 17-52 mission — SpaceX's 90th in this operational context — reveals why polar orbits demand California's coast and what happens physically during that ascent.
How Snakes Lost Their Legs: An 80-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows the Transition
A rare 80-million-year-old fossil preserves the anatomical blueprint of snake limb loss in unprecedented detail, showing which structures had already disappeared and which skeletal hallmarks of modern snakes were already in place — offering the clearest window yet into how lizards became snakes.
Eight Months in Space Ages Astronaut Bones a Decade — Half Never Fully Recover
A NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts returned to Earth after 241 days on the ISS, capping a mission that reveals how long-duration spaceflight compresses roughly a decade of skeletal aging into six months — with bone loss that, in half of studied astronauts, had not fully reversed even a year after landing.
Abortion Bans Linked to 4.3-Point Rise in Teen Girls’ Suicidal Thoughts
A peer-reviewed study in JAMA Network Open found that states with total abortion bans saw a 4.3-percentage-point increase in suicidal ideation among female high school students after Dobbs — while rates were falling in non-ban states. The rise appeared even among girls with no known personal exposure to unwanted pregnancy.
Why Japan Never Ate Raw Salmon Until Norway Sold Them the Idea in 1986
Salmon nigiri is Japan's best-selling sushi topping today, yet raw salmon was considered dangerous in Japanese cuisine for centuries — until a Norwegian government trade mission, launched in 1986 to solve a farmed-fish surplus, spent nearly a decade convincing Japan that parasite-free Atlantic salmon was safe to eat raw.Load More
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