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Nature’s cleanest oddities: 5 animals that survive without ever pooping
From frogs and sponges to jellyfish and tardigrades, scientists reveal how some animals digest food without defecating, showing evolution shaped surprising waste strategies beyond what biology textbooks suggest today worldwide.
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A planet without a Sun: Astronomers detect rare free-floating World 10,000 light-years away
Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet drifting alone through the Milky Way, detected briefly by bent starlight, raising fresh questions about how many hidden, starless worlds roam our galaxy.
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First steps in human history: 7-million-year-old Sahelanthropus fossils suggest early upright walking
Scientists uncover fossils suggesting Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a 7-million-year-old ancestor, could walk upright. Could this tiny bipedal ape-like hominin rewrite what we know about the earliest steps in human evolution?
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Savannah’s legendary super-tusked elephant dies, leaving a towering conservation legacy
Craig, one of Africa’s last super tuskers, has died peacefully in Amboseli, leaving behind towering tusks, decades of research, and an enduring symbol of hope for elephant conservation.
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ESA shares fresh images showing Mars’s relatively recent ice age
Strange grooves, swirling valleys, and hidden ice far from Mars’s poles reveal a surprisingly recent ice age, as new ESA images expose how the Red Planet’s climate once dramatically shifted.
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A billion-year-old asteroid offers new clues to how life may have begun on Earth
New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from space, raising intriguing questions about how easily life might begin elsewhere.
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Eating cobras, growing longer, ruling alone: How this snake became ‘king’
King cobras are the world’s longest venomous snakes, but rare records of giants stretching nearly 19 feet raise questions about how large these elusive, snake eating predators can truly grow.
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Eagle vs Vulture: Power, danger and who would win the skies’ most dramatic battle of dominance
Eagles and vultures share the skies, but their bodies tell different stories, revealing why hunting power, speed, and instincts could decide dominance in a rare aerial confrontation.
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Ultra-rare strawberry-coloured ‘sandalwood leopard’ recorded for the first time in Karnataka
A pale pink “sandalwood” leopard recorded in Karnataka has surprised scientists, raising questions about rare genetics, hidden wildlife diversity, and what else remains undiscovered in India’s understudied dry forests.
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The Wolf Moon lights the sky tonight, marking 2026’s first full moon and supermoon
January’s Wolf Moon, also a rare supermoon, rises in early 2026 with striking size, ancient winter names, and unusual brightness, offering skywatchers clues about lunar cycles and atmospheric effects.
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How quiet cracking is pushing Antarctica’s doomsday glacier towards collapse
Scientists tracking Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier found its ice shelf weakening followed an ordered pattern, driven by hidden cracks and a failing seabed anchor, raising questions about future sea level rise.
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JWST captures spiralling galaxies on a slow-motion collision course
Webb and Chandra reveal two spiral galaxies after an encounter, exposing heated gas, newborn stars and distorted arms, while hinting how the meeting will reshape them over billions of years.
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A lonely world revealed: Astronomers measure the mass of a starless planet
Astronomers have weighed a lonely planet drifting through the Milky Way, using a rare cosmic alignment. How this exiled world formed, and what it reveals about planetary chaos, remains intriguing.
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Hubble spots baby stars carving giant bubbles inside a distant cosmic cloud
Hubble’s latest image peers inside N159, a vast stellar nursery nearby, revealing how cold hydrogen clouds, newborn stars, and powerful stellar forces quietly shape one of our closest galaxies.
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NASA’s Chandra reveals the “Champagne Cluster,” where galaxies collide in a cosmic toast
A newly revealed cosmic image shows two galaxy clusters colliding as one. Nicknamed the Champagne Cluster, it offers rare clues about dark matter behaviour and an unfinished celestial crash.
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This ‘blue marble’ fruit isn’t blue at all and its optical trick is stunning
An African fruit shines brighter than butterflies, without using pigment. Scientists reveal how microscopic structures create a blue glow so intense it lasts decades, and why evolution chose this trick.
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A bright battle in the sky: January’s Quadrantid meteors face off against the Wolf Moon Supermoon
January skies deliver a rare celestial overlap as a bright supermoon meets the Quadrantid meteor shower, dimming shooting stars but raising a question: what will patient skywatchers still catch?
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Water, not fire? Chinese scientists find eight unusual caves shaped by water on Mars
Scientists have identified eight mysterious water-shaped caves on Mars, unlike volcanic tunnels, raising fresh hopes these hidden shelters may preserve ancient clues about life beneath the planet’s harsh surface conditions.
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Fact vs Fear: Spain has 11 snake species, but are they truly dangerous?
Spain hosts 14 snake species, yet only three are venomous. Experts say fear outweighs risk, as most snakes flee humans, and serious bites remain rare compared with everyday dangers.
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Gold leaking from Earth’s core and other planet-shaking discoveries of 2025
From Earth’s oldest rocks to glowing swamp lights and hidden ocean life, scientists in 2025 uncovered clues beneath our feet and seas that reshape how we understand the planet today.
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First sunrise of 2026 seen from space: ISS captures Earth’s new year dawn
While Earth celebrated 2026 with fireworks below, the year’s first sunrise quietly appeared above the planet, captured from the International Space Station and shared by a former astronaut online globally.
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Dinosaur highways, first fires and planet parades: Science’s biggest moments of 2025
From ancient fire-making and dinosaur footprints to planet parades and chimp medicine, 2025 science revealed wonder, surprise and warning, hinting at how much remains unseen, buried, or still unfolding.
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From bone-wearing caterpillars to new colours: Science’s 11 strangest discoveries of 2025
From bone-wearing caterpillars to revived ancient wolves, 2025 delivered discoveries that unsettled science and stretched imagination, revealing how strange nature, humanity, and the universe can truly be.
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JWST detects the most distant supernova yet, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang
James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering rare clues about how the universe’s first stars lived and died.
