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Romania has living stones said to keep growing, and scientists who cultured microbes from stones like them found 19 bacterial isolates able to make the mineral cement t…

Living stones in Romania formed from 14-million-year-old sand, and a 2025 study isolated 19 calcifying bacteria that may help ...
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A Jurassic mammal relative from 165 million years ago swam with a broad otter-like tail, and its fossilized throat suggests it swallowed food much the way people do to…

Jurassic mammal relative Megacauda swam with an otter-like tail 165 million years ago, and its fossil throat hints it ...
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A remote volcanic island once home to the world’s largest penguin colony has lost 63 percent of its breeding chinstrap penguins, and scientists say the volcano above the…

Chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island fell 63 percent from 2011 to 2025, ending its run as the world's largest penguin ...
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Three Soviet cosmonauts remain the only people known to have died in space, and the Soyuz 11 capsule carrying them touched down softly in Kazakhstan while groun…

Soyuz 11 is still the only flight with deaths in space: in 1971 a valve opened 30 minutes before landing and three cosmonauts ...
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Earth’s crust and mantle rapidly shifted relative to the planet’s spin axis four times in the past 320 million years, and the evidence comes from an unusual record left by ...

Earth's crust and mantle moved rapidly four times in 320 million years, a Science study finds from flooding left by ancient ...
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A physicist rode campus elevators with a 6.2-mile spool of optical fiber to test whether gravity changes the speed of light, and the effect he reports is far too big f…

Speed of light and gravity: a physicist timed lasers in 12.4 miles of fiber in elevators and a lab, and reports an effect 85 ...
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A single Instagram photo from Colombia has revealed a new giant water lily that can be seen from space, and researchers believe only 30 to 50 of these plants remain in …

Giant water lily Victoria colombiana, with pads up to 6.6 feet wide, was found via Instagram in Colombia; only 30 to 50 ...
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An underwater volcano in Tonga moved enough rock to fill 1,500 Great Pyramids when it erupted in 2022, and maps of the seafloor show its crater floor caved in whil…

Underwater volcano in Tonga moved 2.1 cubic miles of rock in 2022, enough for 1,500 Great Pyramids, as its caldera collapsed ...
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The eruption that buried Pompeii is now helping scientists date volcanic rock with a margin of just 13 years, and the pumice behind the result had sat unused for decades

Eruption that buried Pompeii lets scientists date Vesuvius pumice to 1,938 years, plus or minus 13, just eight years off the ...
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A hole almost as big as Portugal opened in Antarctic sea ice in midwinter, something satellites had never seen there since 1979, and what kept it from freezing came fro…

Antarctic sea ice opened a 34,410-square-mile hole in Breid Bay in August 2024, fed by six atmospheric rivers and warm water ...
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Hungary’s Danube dropped so low that divers working almost blind pulled a 1,100-pound Roman marble statue from the riverbed, and archaeologists still cannot say …

Roman marble statue of a woman, about 1,100 pounds and 1,700 years old, pulled from Hungary's low Danube at Dunaújváros by ...
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Medieval workers carved the Pont du Gard’s piers to less than half their thickness so carts could cross a Roman aqueduct, and what finally took the traffic off was a seco…

Pont du Gard piers lost over half their thickness in the 1300s so carts could pass, until 1690s repairs and a 1747 road ...