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Scientists Say This Brain Training May Make Your Mind Feel a Decade Younger

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

Targeted digital brain exercises were linked to mental performance seen in people 10 years younger.

A groundbreaking study from McGill University suggests that certain online brain-training exercises may actually reverse up to ten years of age-related decline in memory and learning.

The research, published in npj Aging, tested adults aged 40 to 79 who completed ten weeks of computerized cognitive training. Participants showed significant improvements in memory and reasoning skills, comparable to being ten years younger, offering fresh evidence that digital brain exercises can meaningfully rejuvenate mental performance.

A Slow-Moving Rift Deep Underground Has Scientists Focused on the Pacific Northwest

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A deep underground fracture is drawing scientific attention along North America’s Pacific coast.

Far beneath the forests and coastlines of the Pacific Northwest, scientists have discovered that Earth’s crust is slowly tearing apart. Using satellite and seismic data, researchers detected a widening rift zone deep underground, a process that could one day alter the region’s landscape. While the movement is unfolding over millions of years, it offers rare insight into how continents evolve and separate. For geologists, it’s a living snapshot of Earth’s restless, ever-changing interior.

Ancient Footprints Are Forcing Scientists to Rethink When Humans First Reached America

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

Ancient tracks in New Mexico hint that humans reached North America much earlier than experts once thought.

In the white sands of southern New Mexico, scientists have uncovered fossilized human footprints that could transform our understanding of early American history. Dating analysis shows the prints are around 23,000 years old—thousands of years earlier than the migration timeline long accepted by archaeologists.

The discovery challenges the idea that humans first crossed into the Americas after the last Ice Age. Researchers say these tracks offer direct, physical evidence of people living here much sooner than anyone thought possible.

Archaeologists Found a Tooth and Some Bones. It’s Raising Big Questions About Christianity

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A chain-bound burial near Jerusalem is prompting historians to rethink early Christian faith and sacrifice.

Archaeologists excavating a Byzantine-era monastery near Jerusalem have uncovered a skeleton wrapped in chains, believed to belong to an early Christian ascetic. A single tooth provided the breakthrough: protein analysis showed the remains likely belonged to a woman.

The discovery challenges the long-held assumption that extreme ascetic practices, like self-restraint and self-mortification, were exclusive to men. Dating to roughly 350–650 A.D., the find offers the first physical evidence that women may have taken part in these rigorous spiritual traditions.

This Colorado River Appears to Flow Uphill, and Scientists Now Know Why

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A “gravity-defying” Colorado river may finally have an explanation rooted deep beneath the mountains.

Picture a river that seems to run the wrong way, cutting straight through a mountain range as if gravity briefly stopped working. That is the long-standing mystery of the Green River, a major tributary of the Colorado River that slices across the Uinta Mountains in a route that has puzzled geologists for more than a century.

New research suggests the river never truly flowed uphill at all. Instead, a deep Earth process may have temporarily lowered the mountains themselves, allowing the river to establish its path before the landscape rebounded and rose around it. What looks impossible today may be the result of slow, hidden forces far below the surface.

Tracking Data Reveals Golden Eagles Are Dying in a “Death Vortex” in Nevada

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A new tracking study reveals how hidden threats are pulling Nevada’s golden eagles into a deadly population trap.

Scientists set out to answer a straightforward question about golden eagles in Nevada: why were so many dying young. By fitting the birds with GPS transmitters, researchers hoped to pinpoint causes like collisions, poisoning, or habitat loss. What they uncovered instead was far more alarming.

The data revealed a “death vortex,” a cycle in which eagles are drawn into a landscape that looks suitable but quietly exposes them to repeated dangers. Young birds keep arriving, but too few survive long enough to replace those lost, creating a population sink that threatens the region’s iconic raptors.

This 7,000-Year-Old Peruvian Mummy Doesn’t Match Human DNA, Scientists Say

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A viral claim about a 7,000-year-old Peruvian mummy is colliding with sharp pushback from experts.

Online headlines say a 7,000-year-old mummy in Peru, along with tiny preserved figures showing elongated heads and three fingers, has DNA that is not human. It is a story built for shock, and it has spread fast.

But when authorities and independent specialists have examined similar “three-finger” specimens tied to the same ongoing saga, they have described them as assembled dolls made with animal and human bones and modern materials. The gap between the claim and the evidence is the real story, and it shows how tricky DNA headlines can be.

Students Unearth a Viking Mass Grave With a “Giant” Inside

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A trainee dig near Cambridge revealed a brutal ninth-century burial with dismembered bodies and an unusually tall man.

Over the last year, archaeology students from the University of Cambridge made a shocking discovery during a routine training excavation at Wandlebury Country Park in eastern England. What began as a standard field dig unearthed a narrow burial pit dating back to the ninth century, filled with at least ten individuals. Among the remains were dismembered bones, skulls without bodies, and, strikingly, the skeleton of a man well over six feet tall with evidence of ancient head surgery.

The grave sits in a landscape once marked by conflict between Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Viking forces. Its mix of complete and dismembered skeletons, signs of binding and trauma, and the unusual physiology of one individual combine to make this one of the most intriguing early medieval finds in recent years. Radiocarbon dating, DNA analysis, and isotopic studies are now underway to untangle who these people were and what circumstances brought them to such a violent end.

What May Be Inside the Government UFO Files Set to Be Released

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

Officials say long-sealed government records on unexplained aerial encounters may soon be released to the public.

For decades, government UFO files have existed at the crossroads of secrecy, speculation, and pop culture fascination. Renewed efforts to declassify additional records have once again raised public curiosity about what these documents actually reveal. Many people hope the files will finally clarify decades of unexplained sightings reported by pilots, radar operators, and military personnel.

History suggests expectations should remain grounded. Past disclosures show that most files focus less on extraordinary answers and more on uncertainty, incomplete data, and the difficulty of identifying unusual objects. Even so, the records offer a rare window into how governments document and manage phenomena they cannot immediately explain.

Scientists Just Pulled the Deepest Rock Core Ever From Antarctic Ice. What They Found Could Change Everything

February 25, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals ancient climate clues that could reshape predictions of Earth’s future.

A team of international scientists has successfully drilled the deepest rock and sediment core ever recovered from beneath an ice sheet, capturing roughly 23 million years of Earth’s climate history in frozen mud and rock. The 228-meter core was extracted from beneath about 523 meters of ice at Crary Ice Rise on the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a region that holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by several meters if it were to melt.

Unlike ice cores, which only extend back hundreds of thousands of years, this sediment core preserves direct physical evidence from much warmer periods in Earth’s past. Scientists believe it could help clarify how sensitive Antarctic ice is to warming and whether certain temperature thresholds trigger irreversible ice loss.