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In pictures: Worm Moon captured over Northern Ireland
The first full Moon of the spring, a Worm Moon, was visible on Monday and Tuesday across Northern Ireland.
3 min readBBC
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Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood, study suggests
It is time to move beyond the “baby brain” cliche, say scientists who scanned dozens of women’s brains.
7 min read - Technology
AI helping farmer with data about bees and crops
Experts say the level of data-gathering being achieved could result in healthier bees.
2 min read - Business
Some West African farmers turn to TikTok as part of agriculture's changing image
When Senegalese farmer Pape Fall first downloaded TikTok, it was to watch football and funny videos. A looped video on his TikTok profile shows a pile of cucumbers with slow-paced Senegalese rap playing in the background. Fall is one of millions of farmers in West Africa believed to be using TikTok and other social media to do business, share ideas and change the perception of agriculture as the work of poor people in this part of the world.
Associated Press Finance4 min read - Science
Our love of crystals goes back at least 6 million years
Experiments with chimpanzees show a shared love of shiny things.
4 min readPopular Science
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Is Facebook down? Thousands of users report issues accessing accounts
Problems were clustered around logins and using the Facebook website, users claimed, though complaints subsided by Tuesday evening
1 min readThe Independent
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Researchers sound alarm after making concerning discovery in ocean depths: 'We are only beginning to understand'
"These ... could have far-reaching effects on marine ecosystems."
3 min readThe Cool Down
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New 'Dark Galaxy' Identified as NASA Says It’s Nearly Invisible and Made Up of 99% Dark Matter
NASA said CDG-2 “may be among the most heavily dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered”
3 min readPeople
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Paleontologists Solve the Mystery of a Twisted Jawbone With Sideways Teeth
The Tanyka was a little like a platypus
3 min readNautilus
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Prehistoric water-dwelling weirdo with sideways teeth and a twisted jaw was already a 'living fossil' 275 million years ago
Scientists have described Tanyka amnicola, a newly identified species of prehistoric creature that lived 275 million years ago and had a bizarre twisted jaw with sideways-facing teeth.
3 min readLive Science
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Bizarro salamander ancestor was an evolutionary oddball
Paleontologists say 'Tanyka amnicola' had a jawbone that's a real head-scratcher.
3 min read - Science
A Hidden Shift Inside The Sun Could Help Explain Weak Solar Cycles
Watch out for the quiet ones…
4 min readScienceAlert
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NASA repairs Artemis 2 rocket, continues eyeing April moon launch
NASA has repaired its Artemis 2 rocket, apparently keeping things on track for a possible April launch of the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years.
3 min readSpace
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Scientists Uncover 500-Million-Year-Old Species Hiding In Plain Sight In South Korea
A new species of chiton — a tiny, armored marine mollusk from a lineage roughly 500 million years old — has been identified off the coast of South Korea after routine genetic analysis revealed it was not the already-known creature researchers assumed it to be. The species, named Acanthochitona feroxa, was collected from the southern
3 min readWoman's World
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Mysterious 'dots' discovered by JWST may be the 1st stars in the universe on the verge of collapse
A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb telescope could be the universe's short-lived first generation of gigantic stars, challenging an existing theory.
6 min read - Science
Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary
A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.
3 min read - Science
See it: First-of-its-kind NASA rotorcraft nearly ready to explore Saturn's moon in 2034
A big step in the exploration of other planets in our solar system is within reach. Scientists and engineers at NASA have developed a first-of-its-kind rotorcraft to explore another moon.
3 min readFox Weather
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Ready to spring forward? Clock is ticking on daylight saving time.
Do we lose an hour of sleep this weekend? What to know about daylight saving time start and end and when to move clocks ahead.
The Herald Mail3 min read - US
Archaeologists Found Proof of a Viking City That Was Supposed to Be Mythical
An archaeologist believes he found proof of a Viking city that was supposed to be mythical. Does this evidence actually point to a long-lost medieval New York?
2 min readPopular Mechanics
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Alzheimer’s prevention breakthrough found in decades-old seizure drug
Hope for Alzheimer's prevention emerges as scientists find existing seizure drug may stop disease progression if taken decades before symptoms appear.
4 min readFox News
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A Scientist Says He Has the Evidence That We Live in a Simulation
A scientist proposes a new law of physics suggesting the universe may be a digital simulation, linking physics, biology, and information systems as evidence.
4 min read - Science
Ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein could mend our broken understanding of the universe
Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.
5 min read - Science
Myfanwy the mammoth roamed 15,000 years ago, testing shows
Myfanwy is one of the oldest mammoths to have re-populated Britain towards the end of the last Ice Age.
4 min read - Science
Why Elephants Don’t Eat 1,000 Times More Than Mice: The Surprising Math of Kleiber’s Law
Many of us would probably like to forget sitting through math classes in school. But let’s briefly travel back, just for a moment, to sixth grade, when you were likely introduced to ratios. A ratio compares two quantities. When the ratio between two quantities remains constant among different totals, we call it a proportional relationship.
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A-Z Animals - Science
Archaeologists Unearthed a 1,000-Year-Old Tomb Filled With Gold
Remains of one person, likely a high status individual, lay at the center of the tomb, surrounded by the gold and other human remains.
3 min read - Science
Watch How Water Bears Can Survive in Martian Dirt
There’s a way for the tiny resilient creatures to thrive even on the red planet
2 min read - Science
Missed the total lunar eclipse? Here's when the next one will happen.
The next total lunar eclipse won't happen until 2028 and isn't expected to be viewed in the U.S. That one comes in 2029.
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Missed the lunar eclipse? See when the next one will be over Illinois
Millions saw a 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse. Find out when the next lunar and solar eclipses will be visible in Illinois.
Journal Star2 min read - Science
NASA’s Hubble telescope detects possible ‘dark galaxy’
A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.
7 min readCNN
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Rising CO2 Could Be Altering Our Blood Chemistry, Study Suggests
This isn't great news.
3 min read - Science
Fecal transplants from old mice boost fertility in younger ones
Fecal transplants from old female mice appear to boost fertility and ovarian health in younger ones. The findings, detailed in a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Aging, indicate a direct link between gut health and reproductive health in the animals. The results came as a surprise, says Bérénice Benayoun, a biologist at the University of South California Leonard Davis School of Gerentology and the leader of the research.
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3rd time’s the charm? Watch private Japanese rocket try to reach orbit today
The Japanese company Space One will launch its Kairos rocket for the third time ever today (March 3), and you can watch it live. Kairos failed on its two previous liftoffs.
2 min read - World
2,500-year-old settlement found during fire station construction
The Iron Age settlement pre-dates the Roman invasion of Germany.
2 min read - US
Sheriff Reveals DNA from Savannah Guthrie's Home Has Not Yielded Any Leads
Authorities have yet to pin down a suspect more than one month after Nancy Guthrie went missing.
1 min readParade
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How to See the Next Eclipse Following the Blood Moon
With the first eclipse series of the year now behind us, here's a closer look at the upcoming eclipses and whether they'll be visible in the United States.
2 min read - Science
'Blood moon' total eclipse dazzles millions around the world (photos)
Here are the first images of the March 3 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse visible over North America, Australia, and eastern Asia.
3 min read - Technology
Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities
"Regarding AI as similar to the beauty of the human mind is just like putting lipstick on a pig."
2 min readFuturism
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Spiral galaxy is a stunning cosmic wheel in head-turning image | Space photo of the day for March 3, 2026
The galaxy NGC 941 was imaged by the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai'i.
1 min read - Science
This record-breaking quadruple star system is so jam-packed it could fit between Jupiter and our sun
"TIC 120362137 is currently the most compact known 3+1-type quadruple star system."
5 min read - Science
MeerKAT discovers largest-ever cosmic laser 8 billion light-years away
A razor-thin spike of radio light, tuned to a wavelength of about 18 centimeters, just traveled more than 8 billion light-years and still arrived loud enough to stand out in MeerKAT’s data. That signal comes from HATLAS J142935.
8 min readThe Brighter Side of News
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When Scientists Are Dinosaurs
At the paleontology conference, her new theory was shouted down
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1 year ago, 2 US landers were on moon. How they set stage for Artemis
Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025. Here's what happened.
5 min read - Science
Giant Tortoises Walk This Galápagos Island Again After Nearly 200 Years
The island of Floreana, part of the Galápagos archipelago, is steeped in mystery and lore. From its history as a prison in the 1830s to eccentric human inhabitants one hundred years later to the world’s most unusual post office still functioning today, Floreana has long captured the world’s attention. Now, Floreana is having a new
8 min readA-Z Animals - Science
Missed the blood moon lunar eclipse? Here's when to see the next one
Missed the March 3 blood moon? Here’s when the next total lunar eclipse will appear.
The Enquirer3 min read - Science
See the blood moon total lunar eclipse
Early on Tuesday, a “blood moon” total lunar eclipse made our typically pearlescent moon appear a fiery crimson in what was the first and only total lunar eclipse of 2026. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes directly between the sun and moon. As the star’s light filters through Earth’s atmosphere, it casts a red hue onto the lunar surface that looks much like the shades of a sunset.
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Cheaper cleaner rice? Gene discovery could lower fertilizer reliance
A team of scientists in China and the UK have discovered a potential breakthrough that could reduce rice farmers’ dependence on chemical fertilizers to sustain crop yields for the world’s most-eaten food item, making it less vulnerable to production cost rises that can end up being passed on to shoppers and diners. The researchers have figured out that there is a gene that causes undernourished rice plants to prioritize root growth over shoots, meaning less rice per plant and per hectare, and ha
3 min readdpa international
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in new image | Space photo of the day for March 2, 2026
The JUICE spacecraft captured its first detailed glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and sweeping tail.
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