The most unsettling feature of a mass extinction may be that it does not feel like one from inside it.
A previously unrecorded Maya city has been identified in eastern Campeche, Mexico, not by an expedition cutting through jungle but by a graduate student reanalysing a laser survey flown in 2013 to monitor forests.
The image we have inherited of the first Mars crew is a figure on a ridge at dawn, helmet catching the light, a red desert running out to a pink horizon.
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed MoM-z14, the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet, whose light left it about 280 million years after the Big Bang.
The largest insect known to science was a predator called Meganeuropsis permiana, with a wingspan of about 71 centimetres, a little over two feet.
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