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• Evidence of Ancient Blood Found for the First Time in a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil

  02-11-2026 23:30 via All Articles | Discover Magazine
  
  Learn how the discovery of mineralized red blood cells and blood-related molecules in fossilized bones offer new insights about the longevity of biological material.
  
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• These Bees Make Their Own Plastic, and Their Nests Could Help Us Make Less Lasting Waste

  02-11-2026 22:34 via All Articles | Discover Magazine
  
  Learn how cellophane bees make a natural plastic for their nests and why it could help scientists design plastics that break down more easily in soil.
  
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• Watchful mama bear Gemini wins 2026 Helicopter Mom Award

  02-11-2026 22:07 via Popular Science
  
  Even bears can be helicopter parents. The term coined in the 1990s by child development researchers Foster Cline and Jim Fay describes overly cautious parents who constantly monitor, control, and hover over (like a helicopter) their children’s activities out of fear. For these watchful tendencies, the U.S. Forest Service team at Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska has awarded a brown bear (Ursus arctos) named Gemini with the 2026 Helicopter Mom Award. “We understand her choice,
  
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• Dinosaur blood found in fossils for the first time

  02-11-2026 21:00 via Popular Science
  
  Paleontologists regularly discover fossilized dinosaur bones, but they sometimes locate footprints and prehistoric shells. On rare occasions, researchers have even identified the ancient indentations of a dinosaur’s skin or feathers. But fossilized cells? Researchers have long assumed such microscopic levels of preservation were impossible.But, once again, nature has proven otherwise.In a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), an international team of
  
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• A NASA telescope will likely plummet to Earth on Wednesday

  02-11-2026 19:23 via Popular Science
  
  A revolutionary NASA telescope is making its way back to Earth—but will not survive the journey. The United States Space Force has honed its estimate for the Neil Gehreis Swift Observatory’s fiery atmospheric reentry. According to the latest calculations, the 2,500-pound orbital telescope will largely burn-up during its descent on or around Wednesday, November 4.“We’ve known this day would come since before Swift was launched,” Pennsylvania State University astronomer and Swift control
  
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• Aloe found in ancient Egyptian mummy skull for the first time

  02-11-2026 18:58 via Popular Science
  
  Archaeologists have identified a previously undocumented ingredient used in ancient Egyptian mummifications—and a famous medieval medicine concocted from the mummies themselves. At Germany’s Marburg University, researchers pinpointed traces of aloe-associated plant material in a 2,700-year-old mummy skull, and a popular centuries’ old apothecary cure-all known as Mumia vera aegyptiaca.There is no one way to make a mummy. Mummification methods have varied across the world for thousands of y
  
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• Aloe found in ancient Egyptian mummy skull

  02-11-2026 18:58 via Popular Science
  
  Archaeologists have identified a previously undocumented ingredient used in ancient Egyptian mummifications—and a famous medieval medicine concocted from the mummies themselves. At Germany’s Marburg University, researchers pinpointed traces of aloe-associated plant material in a 2,700-year-old mummy skull, and a popular centuries’ old apothecary cure-all known as Mumia vera aegyptiaca.There is no one way to make a mummy. Mummification methods have varied across the world for thousands of y
  
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• A bull and a male donkey’s sexual relationship turns heads

  02-11-2026 17:00 via Popular Science
  
  Sex between two animals of the same sex is widespread. Over 1,000 animal species from nematode worms to penguins to cattle all dabble in same-sex interactions. But a relationship between a bull named Achille and a male donkey named Patrocolo is raising eyebrows. The pair lives on a plateau in Ethiopia, and both could have chosen partners of the opposite sex and same species on numerous occasions. However, they continued to choose each other, despite belonging to different owners and only seeing
  
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• A NASA telescope will likely plummet to Earth on Friday

  02-11-2026 16:01 via Popular Science
  
  A revolutionary NASA telescope is making its way back to Earth—but will not survive the journey. The United States Space Force has honed its estimate for the Neil Gehreis Swift Observatory’s fiery atmospheric reentry. According to the latest calculations, the 2,500-pound orbital telescope will largely burn-up during its descent on or around Friday, November 6.“We’ve known this day would come since before Swift was launched,” Pennsylvania State University astronomer and Swift control le
  
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• Amazon’s early Black Friday deals have started and these 28 products are at their 2026 lows

  02-11-2026 15:34 via Popular Science
  
  Halloween is over, which means it’s time to put away the giant skeletons and start thinking about holiday shopping. Amazon’s early Black Friday deals went live November 1, and new ones are rolling out every day, so we’re keeping track. Most of the bargains run through the end of the month, which leaves time to deal with the shelf that never got hung or the grill that won’t survive another season. We checked every price in this post on Amazon Monday morning, November 2.Top early Black Fri
  
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• Bald eagle mistaken for trashbag on the road to recovery

  02-11-2026 15:00 via Popular Science
  
  A Pennsylvania resident recently arrived home to find what looked like an unassuming black trash bag in their yard. But the bag moved and lifted its head. Turns out, it was not a bag, but a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). And something was very wrong with her. A state Game Warden brought the eagle to Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in southern Pennsylvania to be checked out. The bird couldn’t stand and her legs were limp, which is a typical symptom of spinal trauma. Nonetheless, the team a
  
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