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Natural Sciences

339 discoveries published so far

October 17, 2026 Alaska's oldest known home, with possible dogs About 55 kilometers southeast of Fairbanks, archaeologists digging at a site called Shég' Xdaltth'í', "They Were There" in Athabascan, have unearthed an encampment that early settlers used off and on for roughly a thousand years.
October 17, 2026 Women and children probably helped build the Terracotta Army The sculptors of Emperor Qin Shihuang's tomb guard left their fingerprints in the wet clay, and a team led by Xiaoxi Li of the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum has now read them.
October 16, 2026 A bleached coral recovers after touching its own clone Five bleached fragments of Pocillopora damicornis, each about 1 to 1.5 centimetres across, were set against healthy fragments cut from the same colony.
October 16, 2026 A gene called DEAF1 explains why exercise rebuilds old muscle Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, with Singapore General Hospital and Cardiff University, found that a gene called DEAF1 becomes overactive with age and interferes with muscle cells' ability to clear damaged proteins and repair themselves.
October 16, 2026 Dogs seem to hear "bouba" as round and "kiki" as spiky In a study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, animal behaviorists brought 51 dogs and their owners into a room with a rounded figure on one wall and a spiky one on the other, then played a human voice saying "bouba" and "kiki".
October 15, 2026 A fossil that sat in a drawer for a century turns out to be Europe's first megaraptoran A rear piece of a skull found on the Isle of Wight and acquired by the Natural History Museum in 1924 has been named Invictibellatrix amberina by a UCL-led team, publishing in Royal Society Open Science.

Progress like this happens every day.