RNA is supposed to fall apart within hours, yet researchers have now read it from a mammoth frozen in Siberian permafrost 39,000 years ago — and the transcripts caught his muscle tissue in the middle of a stress response - Space DailyAugust 19, 2026 3:18 AM1 min read
A pop-up tag on a pregnant porbeagle shark kept reporting for four days after it stopped moving like a shark — rising and falling through the water at a constant 22°C, five degrees warmer than the sea, from inside whatever had swallowed it - Space DailyAugust 19, 2026 3:18 AM1 min read
James Webb spotted a bizarre object just 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines with roughly 100 billion Suns' worth of energy — because hidden inside its star-like cocoon is an accreting black hole, rather than a core - Space DailyAugust 19, 2026 3:18 AM1 min read
A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy and hauling a fully submerged crab trap up the beach by its rope, then working the bait cup open — three minutes of footage no wild canid had ever been filmed doing - Space DailyAugust 19, 2026 3:18 AM1 min read
Moon Meets Venus, Spica And The ‘Anti-Mars’: The Night Sky This Week - forbes.comAugust 19, 2026 3:18 AM1 min read
After Half A Century, Physicists Find The Strongest Evidence Yet For An Exotic 'Glueball' Particle - sciencealert.comAugust 19, 2026 3:18 AM1 min read
Giant crocodylians dominated the food chain in Miocene South America, fossil evidence suggests - phys.orgAugust 19, 2026 3:18 AM1 min read
Mimas looks like one of Saturn's deadest moons: a frozen, heavily cratered ball with no obvious activity. Then scientists discovered a global ocean beneath it in 2024 — an ocean less than 25 million years old, younger than the Himalayas, hiding beneath a surf - Space DailyAugust 19, 2026 3:18 AM1 min read
