Scientists in China find mysterious virus at the bottom of the Mariana Trench: "The virus, called vB_HmeY_H4907, was found at a depth of 29,199 feet... The virus is a bacteriophage — a type of lifeform that infects bacteria before hijacking their cellular machinery to generate more copies of itself"

by neolib to /s/science from livescience.com

James Webb telescope sees potential signs of alien life in the atmosphere of a distant 'Goldilocks' water world

by Zapped to /s/science from livescience.com

Mars is spinning faster, and scientists aren't sure why: "...the Red Planet's spin is accelerating at a rate of 4 milliarcseconds — one one-thousandth of an arcsecond, a unit of angularity — per year. As a result, the length of a Martian day is getting shorter by fractions of a millisecond annually"

by neolib to /s/space from livescience.com

NASA accidentally severs contact with Voyager 2 probe 12 billion miles from Earth

by Musky to /s/space from livescience.com

Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest - Giant viruses are much more diverse in shape and size than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.

by neolib to /s/science from livescience.com

Elephants' giant, hot testicles could stop them getting cancer

by [deleted] to /s/TIL from livescience.com

'Virgin birth' recorded in crocodile for 1st time ever - The American crocodile had been isolated in a reptile park enclosure for 16 years when she laid a clutch of eggs.

by neolib to /s/offbeat from livescience.com

Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.

by neolib to /s/offbeat from livescience.com

Late Cretaceous Monotreme tooth, and part of jaw found ... In South America.

by ActuallyNot to /s/palaeontology from livescience.com

Human skulls are pierced with coffin nails and human bones are turned into Ouija board pieces; almost nothing is off-limits in the U.K.'s thriving online human remains trade

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Bad Blood? Why Transfusions from Women May Be Risky for Men

by [deleted] to /s/Health from livescience.com

Gold and silver treasures discovered with 'elite craftspeople' burials near powerful Wari queen's tomb

by jet199 to /s/Archeology from livescience.com

How Gay Mallard Duck Necrophilia was Discovered

by [deleted] to /s/science from livescience.com

A week after a quiet admission from the NASA went unnoticed, reporters caught on that a “micrometeoroid” caused “significant uncorrectable damage” to America’s celebrated $10 billion Webb Telescope. The Hubble was notorious for being an endlessly orbiting symbol of American decline. But the Webb?

by Chipit to /s/space from livescience.com

Weak G1 geomagnetic storm called 'Canyon of fire' will slam into Earth today or tomorrow

by [deleted] to /s/science from livescience.com

2,100-year-old farmstead in Israel found 'frozen in time' after owners disappeared

by jet199 to /s/Archeology from livescience.com

Physicists just rewrote a foundational rule for nuclear fusion reactors that could unleash twice the power

by [deleted] to /s/science from livescience.com

30 of the world's most valuable treasures that are still missing

by One_Jack_Move to /s/whatever from livescience.com

Parasite that controls cat minds may infect billions of people. The clue is in their eyes

by [deleted] to /s/Health from livescience.com

Largest known cave art images in US by Indigenous Americans discovered in Alabama

by jet199 to /s/Archeology from livescience.com

Mysterious ceramic jars may actually be 900-year-old Crusader hand grenades

by jet199 to /s/Archeology from livescience.com

Dozens of unexplained cases of liver inflammation seen in UK children

by [deleted] to /s/news from livescience.com

Microbes In The Sky

by Zapped to /s/science from livescience.com

China's $1 trillion 'artificial sun' fusion reactor just got five times hotter than the sun

by [deleted] to /s/science from livescience.com

Peculiar parasitic fungi discovered growing out of the rectum of a 50 million-year-old fossilized ant

by [deleted] to /s/science from livescience.com

Largest objects ever get cooled down to their ‘quantum limit’

by killerjavi98 to /s/science from livescience.com

DARPA takes step toward 'holy grail of encryption'

by [deleted] to /s/Security from livescience.com

Earth's magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago, creating a climate 'disaster'

by killerjavi98 to /s/science from livescience.com

Human-Size Blob Drifts by Divers. And It's Packed with Hundreds of Thousands of Baby Squid.

by zyxzevn to /s/Biology from livescience.com

Mysterious particles spewing from Antarctica defy physics

by DoktorOmni to /s/PoleShit from livescience.com

Bye, Bye, Playboy Bunnies: 5 Ways Porn Affects the Brain

by yishengqingwa666 to /s/antipornography from livescience.com

Massive ancient temple complex may lurk beneath famous Northern Ireland fort

by dippydap to /s/Archeology from livescience.com

Hitchcockian Crows Spread the Word About Unkind Humans

by [deleted] to /s/science from livescience.com

The moon is 85 million years younger than previously thought

by runtis to /s/science from livescience.com

Lumpy flint figurines may be some of the earliest depictions of real people

by dippydap to /s/Archeology from livescience.com

Gold from Bacteria

by Questionable to /s/science from livescience.com

Mysterious particles spewing from Antarctica defy physics

by useless_aether to /s/science from livescience.com

Why we must resist all forms of surveillance and maintain our entanglements free from tyrannical influences and interpretations

by useless_aether to /s/privacy from livescience.com

3,300 Year Old Divination Shrines Discovered in Armenia

by Kangbanger to /s/AncientHistory from livescience.com