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The cave is low and dark, and it is dug into limestone on a little island in the Baltic Sea where the wind blows salt from ...

A hidden toxic river is seeping mercury into Spain’s Mar Menor lagoon, intensifying the already significant environmental ...

A strange black fungus discovered inside the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 doesn’t just resist radiation—it appears to feed ...

New data shows Ice Age hunters used Mezhyrich’s mammoth-bone shelters briefly, highlighting adaptations in a volatile, frigid ...

The Rockies announced multiple familiar faces as members of the 2026 coaching staff under manager Warren Schaeffer.

When paleontologists in China cracked open a set of cannonball sized dinosaur eggs, they did not find bones or embryos.

Is Notre Dame’s “Horseman” poet Joachim du Bellay? Archaeologists linked a lead coffin burial to the Renaissance poet, ...

Below the surface, Seneca Lake’s bed is a lunar landscape, with large pockmarks of unknown origin. Chloride levels are mysteriously high. And, most famously, occasional unexplained booming sounds ...

We selected the 10 news features published on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ news site in 2025 that resonated with ...