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'Fireball' meteorite that landed on NJ home contains ingredients of life from ancient proto-planet

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July 20, 2026

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'Fireball' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from an ancient proto-planet, study finds

Amino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024.

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What did the DNA of a 4,000-year-old human skeleton buried with a metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge reveal?

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The person came from as far away as Asia

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The person was a woman, not a man as previously thought

The person lived to be around 80 years old

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History & Archaeology

Decorated wild-boar tusk found in Russia may have been medieval warrior's good-luck charm

Archaeologists in Russia have discovered a rare medieval wild-boar tusk that was likely used by a warrior or noble as a good-luck charm, a new study reports.

Your Body

'RNA can do things which we have never seen before': New study challenges assumptions about what RNA was up to at the dawn of life

RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D structures were when life on Earth began.

Planet Earth

'These are striking forecasts': Super El Niño keeps getting even more likely, and it could bring a humanitarian crisis

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Space

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In the Sky

'Shared cosmic experience': 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Apophis could be visible to 90% of Earth's population during ultraclose 2029 flyby, new maps reveal

Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly past Earth on April 13, 2029. The skyscraper-size space rock will come closer than some satellites, making it clearly visible to the naked eye.

Astronomy & Astrophysics

'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever

Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years.

Technology

'A dangerous proposition': How AI is warping the social fabric and the ways we collectively imagine the future

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Your Brain

Cells from your mother likely infiltrated your brain in the womb, and they could survive for decades, study reveals

Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into old age.

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