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Were Neanderthals built for the cold? A rare fossil offers new clues #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Were Neanderthals built for the cold? A rare fossil offers new clues
An exceptionally preserved Neanderthal skull suggests that their nasal passages were not specialized cold weather equipment.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Bigfoot meets modern science: Why the search may never end #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Bigfoot meets modern science: Why the search may never end
A new study explains why people still search for Bigfoot. It shows how simple tools, patience, and curiosity keep the mystery alive.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Climate overshoot: What happens when the world gets too hot for too long? #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Climate overshoot: What happens when the world gets too hot for too long?
The study warns that passing 1.5 degrees will hurt people more. It shows how climate overshoot increases risks for food, health, cities, and fragile communities.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Violence against women persists across all countries #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Violence against women persists across all countries
Violence against women stays widespread with little progress. Many survivors remain silent, funding declines, and risks rise.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Male hummingbirds evolved dagger-like bills for combat #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Male hummingbirds evolved dagger-like bills for combat
Male green hermit hummingbirds evolved sharper bills that work better in mating fights. These battles shaped the unusual bill design.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Evolution can’t keep up with rapidly changing environments #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Evolution can’t keep up with rapidly changing environments
This study explains why helpful DNA changes appear often but rarely spread, because environments shift too fast for evolution to keep up.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Chimpanzees weigh evidence before making decisions, just like humans #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Chimpanzees weigh evidence before making decisions, just like humans
Chimpanzees change their choices when stronger clues appear and stay the course when only weaker hints came in.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Earth’s most rugged plant just proved its resilience in space #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Earth’s most rugged plant just proved its resilience in space
Moss spores survived nine months outside the space station, revealing surprising strength and new clues about life in space.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Why future monsoon storms will become much more dangerous #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Why future monsoon storms will become much more dangerous
Future monsoon storms may weaken in wind but grow wetter, last longer over land, and increase flood risk across South Asia.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Why animals that care for each other face less cancer #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Why animals that care for each other face less cancer
Animals show different cancer levels based on how they share, compete, and care. Social behavior shapes cancer risk across many species.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Four common factors appear prior to 99% of heart attacks and strokes #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Four common factors appear prior to 99% of heart attacks and strokes
A large analysis of health records from South Korea and the United States reports that 99 percent of heart attacks and strokes were preceded by at least one common risk. The main signal held across ages and in both countries. Those risks are high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, and tobacco use. These
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November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Nature cam catches video of the world’s ‘most hated’ snakes behaving like loving mothers #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Nature cam catches video of the world’s ‘most hated’ snakes behaving like loving mothers
A quiet camera trained on a Colorado hillside did more than just livestream snakes. It helped people rethink their attitude towards an animal that many have learned to fear. A new research paper has shared that the RattleCam livestream project attracted over 14,500 subscribers, while following a prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) den during one active
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November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Wildfires raged on after Earth’s worst mass extinction #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Wildfires raged on after Earth’s worst mass extinction
A new study uncovers hidden chemical clues showing that fire played a bigger role in the Early Triassic than scientists once thought.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Sharpest-ever view of a star’s disk reveals surprising details #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Sharpest-ever view of a star’s disk reveals surprising details
A telescope in Hawai‘i used a new photonic tool to sharpen its view of a spinning gas disk, revealing structure no one had seen before.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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How shifting winds could weaken Earth’s biggest carbon sink #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
How shifting winds could weaken Earth’s biggest carbon sink
Bogs show a climate shift 15000 years ago. Changing winds shaped rainfall and ocean carbon, and similar wind changes matter for our future.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Nevada cave reveals 580,000 years of dramatic climate swings #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Nevada cave reveals 580,000 years of dramatic climate swings
A calcite deposit in Nevada captures 580,000 years of climate swings and helps explain shifting heat, rainfall and water resources.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Our brain decides what we’re smelling before it knows if we like it #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Our brain decides what we’re smelling before it knows if we like it
The study shows how the brain quickly sorts odors using fast rhythms and later decides whether each smell feels pleasant or unpleasant.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Switching to a plant-based diet cuts your climate footprint in half #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Switching to a plant-based diet cuts your climate footprint in half
Switching to plant-based meals can cut daily climate footprints in half, delivering major emission and energy-use reductions.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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AI tool can identify chemical signatures of alien life #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
AI tool can identify chemical signatures of alien life
LifeTracer uses machine learning to spot subtle molecular patterns that separate biological chemistry from nonliving organics.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Kissing may be millions of years older than humans #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Kissing may be millions of years older than humans
Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle mouth-to-mouth contact.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Slimming with seeds: How black cumin fights fat #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Slimming with seeds: How black cumin fights fat
Black cumin seeds lowered blood fats and slowed fat cell growth in early tests. The results suggest a simple food may support heart health.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Earth’s biggest storms are about to get even more intense #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Earth’s biggest storms are about to get even more intense
A powerful fine-grid climate model finds hidden drivers of extreme rain, projecting a major jump in flooding as the planet continues to warm.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Why animals that care for each other face less cancer #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Why animals that care for each other face less cancer
Animals show different cancer levels based on how they share, compete, and care. Social behavior shapes cancer risk across many species.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Prenatal stress may speed up babies’ first teeth #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Prenatal stress may speed up babies’ first teeth
A study of U.S. mothers finds that elevated cortisol late in pregnancy is tied to earlier tooth eruption in infants.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Cemetery with 77 Viking graves and hoards discovered #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Cemetery with 77 Viking graves and hoards discovered
Archaeologists in Aarhus, Denmark, reported finding graves of 77 Viking in a medieval churchyard – a single site that captures a community shifting to Christianity while older beliefs lingered. The graves cluster around the lost St. Oluf’s Church near the city center, and most date to roughly 900 years ago. The work was led by
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November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM