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Thermal eruption at Yellowstone National Park

Some Hydrothermal Explosions Can Hurl Water and Rock 600 Feet in the Air — Here's How Yellowstone National Park Monitors Them

Learn more about the monitoring equipment installed at Yellowstone National Park and how it can help keep people safe.

Ancient Boat Carvings Suggest Bronze Age Europe Was More Connected Than We Thought

A Small Pride of Marine Lions Learned to Hunt Seals on the Skeleton Coast, and Their Cubs Are Learning, Too

A New Walking Shark Species Has Brown Freckles, White Dashes, and an Uncertain Future

A Common Brain Protein May Help Alzheimer’s Disease Spread — and Understanding This Could Lead to New Treatments

Fossilized A Coryphodon sp. tooth

Rare Fossilized Teeth Fill a Major Gap in Early Mammal Evolution After the Dinosaur Extinction

the big ring, expanding into space

A Massive Ring-Like Structure of Galaxies Defies the Universe's Rules — Here's Why It's Such a Mystery

pentagonal-shaped mRNA vaccine

Six Years After the First COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines, Billions of Doses Clarify Their Protection and Rare Risks

A swimming crab trapped inside a plastic bottle found drifting in the Pacific Ocean off Okinawa, Japan.

A Crab Survived Two Months Trapped in a Plastic Bottle in the Pacific After Growing Too Big to Escape

Protozoa under a microscope

A Parasitic Infection That Causes Explosive Diarrhea Is Spreading in the U.S. as an Outbreak Expands in Michigan

Cell culture

World’s First Synthetic Cell With a Complete Life Cycle Marks Biology Breakthrough

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A Long-Lost Megalodon Fossil Found, The Strange Minds That May Exist in the Universe, and a Blood Test That Could Detect Over 50 Types of Cancer

Clytia hemisphaerica medusa, jellyfish that heals wounds quickly

This Jellyfish Can Heal Its Wounds in Mere Minutes — What This Could Mean for Wound Healing in the Animal Kingdom

Doctor with vials of blood for a blood test

A Blood Test Could One Day Detect Over 50 Types of Cancer — What That Means for Cancer Care

Team scanning the brain with an MRI to research changes in the brain during pregnancy

MRI Scans Reveal That Pregnancy Restructures the Brain — but Why It Transforms Remains a Mystery

Marlborough mound with lush green grass and green trees growing on it

Marlborough Mound Is the Second-Largest Neolithic Structure in Britain — and Legend Claims It Contains Merlin's Bones

Artistic reconstruction of the Bad Dürrenberg shaman with ornate animal headdress

Skeletal Clues of a 9,000-Year-Old Woman Shaman Show How She Induced Ecstatic Behavior During Spiritual Rituals

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End of extinction?

The Spring 2026 Issue of Discover Magazine

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