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In January 2025, the Ocearch research team, renowned for their groundbreaking studies on oceanic predators, made an unexpected discovery off the coast of Florida and Georgia. They captured a massive great white shark that is rewriting the record books. This extraordinary shark, known as Contender, is far larger than anything scientists have seen before, challenging previous assumptions about the species. …

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A previously quiet fault line beneath North America is now feared to be a ticking time bomb, and experts warn it could unleash a devastating earthquake with no warning, shaking parts of the US. Canadian scientists have discovered that the Tintina Fault, located just 12 miles from Dawson City in the Yukon, has been silently building up underground pressure and …

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa. This vast, developing phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and concerned scientists for years, and perhaps none more so than NASA researchers. The space agency’s …

Fifteen years ago in a sanctuary in Zambia, inspiration struck a chimpanzee named Julie. She plucked a stiff blade of grass, stuck it inside her ear, and left it there. There the grass dangled as Julie played, groomed, and rested. The behavior soon spread to most of the other chimpanzees in Julie’s group, called Group 4, and was adopted by …

A study analyzing JWST observations of the early universe has uncovered an intriguing mystery: most galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This unexpected pattern, which defies current cosmological models, has led the study’s authors to propose a bold possibility: that our universe might exist inside a black hole. The JWST has allowed astronomers to peer back further …

A newly discovered human cervical vertebra from the Gran Dolina site in the Sierra de Atapuerca in Spain, which dates to 850,000 years ago, has provided new evidence of cannibalism among early humans. The child’s bone, aged between two and four years, contains clear cut marks that researchers interpret as signs of deliberate decapitation. Excavation work at level TD6 of …

Ocean Sugar Makes Cancer Cells Explode  SciTechDaily Cancer cells go up in flames—thanks to this deep-sea sugar  ScienceDaily Compound produced by deep-sea bacteria shows anti-tumor effects in mouse study  Phys.org Deep-sea bacterial compound triggers pyroptosis to fight cancer  News-Medical Source link

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