A recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake in south-central Pakistan killed over 260 people and displaced thousands more. It also spawned a new island in the Arabian Sea hundreds of miles from the earthquake's source, demonstrating how quickly land surfaces can change under violent geologic stresses.¹

Until recently, thousands of tiny, potential protein-coding regions in the genome called "small open reading frames" or "smORFs" have been difficult to identify. They are now getting well-deserved attention for the important biochemical functions they play in the cell—like making your heart beat.¹

European scientists have now discovered flowering plant fossils in rock layers supposedly 100,000,000 years older than expected.¹ This new finding challenges conventional evolutionary assumptions as scientists struggle to account for what they interpret as an enormous time gap.