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pc: Discover Magazine (Image Credit: Dr Stephen Chester) A tiny tooth can disappear between your fingertips without much effort. Yet some of the earliest clues to our own evolutionary story come from fossils no larger than that. In collections of ancient mammal remains from western North America, palaeontologists have spent decades piecing together fragments of…

For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later. After spending nearly eight years weaving through the inner Solar System, the European-Japanese spacecraft is now approaching the point it was designed to reach from the very beginning. As reported by ESA, in November 2026, Mercury is…

In the early years of the 20th century, conservation in the United States was still taking shape as a profession rather than a philosophy. Forests were being mapped, species counted, land divided into managed zones with a confidence that nature could be organised if only enough data were gathered. Among the young men entering that…

An artist’s impression of the Tunguska airburst over central Siberia on 30 June 1908. An explosion powerful enough to destroy millions of trees should have left behind a giant crater. Instead, when scientists finally reached the remote Siberian wilderness where the blast had occurred, they found only a forest laid out like matchsticks. There was…

Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Today’s quote of the day comes from Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist who spent more than five decades living with a diagnosis that was originally expected to kill him within two years. He said, “I have lived with the prospect of an early death for…

Quote of the day by Marie Curie (AI-generated image) Today’s quote of the day comes from Marie Curie, the physicist and chemist who remains the only person ever to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. She wrote, “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”…

For decades, palaeontologists have puzzled over a scene preserved in rock across parts of Mongolia and China. Fossilised oviraptor dinosaurs were repeatedly found sitting over nests in a posture that looked strikingly familiar. Their forelimbs spread across the clutch, their bodies positioned above the eggs, almost as if they were brooding like modern birds.The image…

Nasa has taken another step towards building a permanent human presence on the Moon by awarding almost $600 million in fresh contracts for a new series of robotic lander missions. Rather than focusing on a single spacecraft, the agency is spreading the work across several commercial partners, continuing its strategy of using private companies to…

An invasive snake that likely arrived on Guam hidden inside military cargo after the Second World War went on to transform the island’s ecosystem in ways scientists are still trying to understand. The brown tree snake, native to parts of Australia, Papua New Guinea and nearby islands, found an environment unlike any it had encountered…

A routine archaeological excavation beneath a quiet village in northeastern France has uncovered one of the most remarkable Roman coin hoards found in recent years. Hidden for around 1,700 years, three ceramic jars packed with an estimated 40,000 bronze and copper Roman coins were discovered beneath the remains of an ancient neighbourhood in Senon. Far…