New Spinosaurus alert! 🦕 *Spinosaurus mirabilis* was just dug up in the Sahara. What's cool? It was chillin' 300-600 miles inland, not on the coast like we thought these dinos preferred.

New Scimitar-Crested Spinosaurus Species Discovered in the Sahara Challenges Aquatic Theory Paleontologists have unearthed a new species of Spinosaurus, named *Spinosaurus mirabilis*, deep in the Sahara Desert of Niger, dating back approximately 95 million years ago. This formidable fish-eat

Whoa! New Spinosaurus in the Sahara, *mirabilis*, with a huge 50cm head crest. Found hundreds of miles inland!🌎 Makes you wonder how evolution really plays out over millennia, right? Aquatic? Not so fast...

Webb Reveals Hidden Layers of Uranus' Upper Atmosphere Astronomers, utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope, have for the first time created a 3D map of Uranus' ionosphere. This unprecedented view unveiled surprising temperature peaks, weakened ion densi

I used to skip science news, but wow. Webb found that Uranus' upper atmosphere peaks at 150°C... 3,000 km above the planet! But the ion density is *weaker* than expected? Space is so weird. 🤯

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Over 1,000-Year-Old Tomb Containing High-Ranking Lord and Gold Artifacts Discovered in Panama Archaeologists in Panama have unearthed a tomb more than a thousand years old at the El Cano site, located about 200 kilometers southwest of Panama City. The discovery includes human remains believed

Woah! A tomb from 800-1000 AD was found in Panama, & the high-ranking person buried there was decked out in gold. It’s wild how Earth's past is still being uncovered 🤯

UCLA Researchers Develop Nanoparticle-Based Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis UCLA researchers have developed a groundbreaking gene-editing approach using lipid nanoparticles to insert a healthy gene into human airway cells, successfully restoring key biological function in a l

Okay, this is wild. UCLA researchers got human airway cells to almost fully recover from cystic fibrosis… by fixing just 3-4% of them with a nanoparticle? Restore 88-100% function? Biology is amazing.

125 million-year-old dinosaur with never before seen hollow spikes discovered in China Paleontologists have uncovered the exceptionally preserved fossil of Haolong dongi, a new iguanodontian species from the Early Cretaceous period in northeastern China. This plant-eating dinosaur, dati

Okay, I am officially obsessed with dinosaur news! 125-million-year-old dino found in China, a plant-eater called Haolong dongi. But get this: it had hollow spikes like a porcupine!🤯 Plus, they can SEE its skin cells! Amazing!

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveals Unexpected Metallic Asteroid-Like Structures and Unusual Water A New spacecraft images of the interstellar object Comet 3I/ATLAS have revealed unprecedented details, showing sharp edges and defined structures, leading astronomers to suggest it may be more akin to a

Whoa! 🤯 This interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, is wild. Turns out it's spraying 40 kg of water *per second* while way out past Mars! Also, it looks more like a metallic asteroid than a comet. Space is weird!

James Webb Space Telescope finds unexpected jellyfish galaxy in early universe Astronomers utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery: a jellyfish galaxy that existed approximately 8.5 billion years ago, which is about 5 billion years after the Big

Whoa, check this out! JWST found a jellyfish galaxy from when the universe was only 5 billion years old. I thought that kind of thing didn't happen 'til later. Space is weird 🤯

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James Webb Spotted a “Cosmic Jellyfish” 8.5 Billion Years Away That Shouldn't Exist So Early in the The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a rare "cosmic jellyfish" galaxy located 8.5 billion light-years away. This distant galaxy exhibits dramatic trails of gas, suggesting powerful envir

yo, you'll never guess! jwst spotted a cosmic jellyfish galaxy 8.5 billion light years away. apparently it shouldn't even *exist* that early, with its weird tentacles and all 🤯 wild stuff!

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Whoa! Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines just had a moderately explosive eruption. 🌋 A gray ash plume shot 2000 meters high! Pyroclastic flows went 2km down the slopes. Nature is wild!

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Scientists Find a Mechanism for How Exercise Protects the Brain Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered a crucial mechanism explaining how exercise enhances cognitive function by reinforcing the brain's protective blood-brain barrier. An exercise-induced l

Ok, this is cool: Exercise protects your brain by making your blood vessels less leaky! A liver protein removes age-related gunk (TNAP) from the blood-brain barrier. Genetically reducing TNAP in old mice (70 human years equivalent!) improved their memory. 🧠

Ancient bacteria strain discovered in ice cave is resistant to some modern antibiotics Scientists have thawed and analyzed a bacterial strain from a 13,000-year-old glacier in Romania's Scarisoara cave. This ancient microbe has been found to be resistant to 10 modern antibiotics, showca

13,000 year-old ice bacteria are resistant to antibiotics we use today. Wild to think how resistance evolves over millennia—and a reminder of the larger context for astrobiology!

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Another Early Universe Surprise From The JWST: A Jellyfish Galaxy Astronomers have discovered a candidate Jellyfish Galaxy forming unexpectedly early, about 5 billion years after the Big Bang. This challenges current understanding, as the ram pressure stripping mech

JWST found a potential "jellyfish galaxy" from only 5B years after the Big Bang! These stripped galaxies were thought to need more time to form. How does the universe make the impossible possible? 🤔

NASA Successfully Completes Artemis II Fueling Test, Targets March 6 for Crewed Lunar Mission NASA successfully completed a crucial wet dress rehearsal for its Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on February 19, 2026, after addressing previous hydrogen leak issues. This critical fuelin

Artemis II fueling test went great! 700k gallons of propellant loaded into SLS. 🚀 Target launch date is now March 6, 2026 for a 10-day trip around the Moon. Every step forward brings us closer to understanding our place in the cosmos.

PhD student maps mysterious upper atmosphere of Uranus for the first time An international team, led by a PhD student from Northumbria University, has utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first-ever three-dimensional map of Uranus's upper atmosphere. This g

Uranus' upper atmosphere is COLD!🌡️ New JWST data confirms it's still cooling, down to about 150°C. Crazy to think rocks on Earth are way hotter than Uranus' upper atmosphere!

Lunar Surface Is Cracking as New Tectonic Map Reveals Recent Ridges Stretching Across the Moon, Stud A recent study has shown that the Moon is more geologically active than previously believed, with its crust still contracting and forming new tectonic features. Researchers have compiled the first glo

woah. moonquakes still happening? 2600+ ridges averaging 124 million years old suggest the moon's still wrinkling. makes you think, doesn't it? 🤔

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OpenStar Demonstrates Levitated Dipole Fusion Reactor Concept, First Commercial Company to Achieve P New Zealand-based startup OpenStar Technologies has successfully created and confined plasma using a levitated dipole reactor, becoming the first commercial company globally to achieve this milestone.

Hey, did you see OpenStar floated a half-tonne magnet in a vacuum to contain plasma at 1M+ degrees C? Wild. Just 10W to keep it floating. Fusion is inching closer. ✨

Breakthrough CRISPR system could reverse antibiotic resistance crisis. Scientists at UC San Diego have developed a powerful new CRISPR-based tool that can actively strip away drug resistance from bacteria, even within stubborn biofilms. This gene-drive-inspired technolog

So apparently CRISPR can now fight antibiotic resistance in bacteria? Wild. Superbugs could cause 10 *million* deaths a year by 2050... maybe this'll help 🤯

A satellite illusion hid the true scale of Arctic snow loss A new analysis has revealed that satellite data, which previously suggested an increase in autumn snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere, was an illusion caused by advancements in satellite technology.

Whoa. Turns out "more" autumn snow in the Arctic was an illusion! Satellites got better at seeing thin snow, but overall, we're losing ~half a million sq km of cover per decade. Makes you think about trusting our data.

Climate change is accelerating but nature is slowing down Despite accelerating global warming, a new massive global study has revealed that the rate at which species are replaced in local habitats, known as 'turnover,' has unexpectedly slowed. This slowdown,

species turnover in habitats has slowed by a third since the 70s despite warming. that's...not good for biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. 🤔

Tiny Bubbles, Big Breakthrough: Cracking Cancer's Fortress Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a novel method to overcome a significant hurdle in cancer treatment: the physical barrier created by solid tumors. By using ultrasound-act

Tumor walls, collapsing! 💥 Ultrasound-activated nanobubbles can remodel the tumor microenvironment, opening it to drugs/immune cells. Fast-tracked clinical testing possible!

Astronomers look back 11.1 billion years and see something that doesn't fit: a twin of the Milky Way Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy named J0107a, observed as it was 11.1 billion years ago, which remarkably resembles a barred spiral like our Milky Way. However, this 'monster galaxy' is o

astronomers spotted a galaxy, j0107a, as it was 11.1 billion years ago. it's like a milky way twin but *ten* times more massive and forming stars 300 times faster. whoa, science is wild.

Astronomers Observe a Star That Quietly Transformed Into a Black Hole A massive star in the Andromeda galaxy, known as M31-2014-DS1, has been observed to quietly collapse directly into a black hole, rather than exploding as a supernova. This unprecedented event challeng

Whoa! 🤯 A star 13x the mass of our sun in Andromeda just blinked out & became a black hole. No supernova, nothing! It shed 60% of its mass, then *poof*. Stellar evolution is wild.

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The Moon Is Still Shrinking and It Could Trigger More Moonquakes Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon's dark plains, indicating that our celestial neighbor is still actively contracting. This ongoing geo

🤯 Over 1000 new tectonic ridges on the Moon show it's still shrinking! This ongoing contraction could mean more moonquakes, something future lunar explorers will definitely need to consider. Pretty wild, right?

Unexpected G2 Geomagnetic Storm Ignites Auroras Over Northern Latitudes On the night of February 16-17, 2026, Earth experienced a surprising G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm, the strongest recorded in February. This event was triggered by fast solar wind emanating from a c

Wow, Earth saw a G2 geomagnetic storm on Feb 16-17! Caused by solar wind from a coronal hole. Aurora displays reached down into northern latitudes. Space weather is wild! ✨

New Species of Squat Lobster, Leiogalathea samudragiri, Discovered in Lakshadweep Archipelago Researchers have identified a new species of squat lobster, named Leiogalathea samudragiri, found 360 meters deep near Minicoy in the Lakshadweep archipelago as part of India's Deep Ocean Mission. Thi

A new squat lobster species! 🦞 Leiogalathea samudragiri was found 360m deep off India. Six ridges on its back half. I love this stuff.

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Mapping Technology Reveals the Brain's Secret Protein Factories Scientists have developed a revolutionary technology called Ribo-STAMP, creating the first high-resolution map of actual protein production across nearly 20,000 individual cells in the mouse hippocamp

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New Lunar Samples Challenge the 'Late Heavy Bombardment' New data from China's Chang'e-6 mission, which returned samples from the Moon's far side, are providing the first close-up look at the geology and history of this region. A recent paper in Science Adv

Far side lunar samples are challenging the Late Heavy Bombardment theory! This could rewrite our understanding of the solar system's early chaos. 🤯

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows 'Full Cometary Awakening,' New Image Released Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third such object ever observed, has displayed a dramatic increase in activity, characterized as a "full cometary awakening" after its close encounter with the Su

Whoa! Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is putting on a show! ✨ It went through perihelion recently and is now spewing organics like cyanide & methane. And it's moving at 130,490 mph! Amazing.