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The 5 Most Unnerving Things Cops Saw While Chasing New Jersey's Mystery Drones
A massive cache of recently released police documents related to the 2024 drone wave reveals what officers experienced, from jammed radios, stalked helicopters, and a nuclear lab.
By Milky Way News Editorial • Mar 26, 2026
Earth's Magnetic Shield Has a Growing Hole and It's Now Half the Size of Europe
New satellite data reveals a massive weak spot in the planet's magnetic field is expanding faster than expected. Is something weird happening deep inside Earth's core?
By Milky Way News Editorial • Mar 13, 2026
Your Eyes Evolved From a 600-Million-Year-Old Cyclops That’s Still Inside You Today
A sedentary, one-eyed worm lost its paired eyes and gained something better: the biological blueprint for every vertebrate retina that's ever existed since.
By Ethan Denma • Mar 5, 2026
From Meme to Marine Crisis: The People’s Mollusk Gets a Name (and a Warning)
A new name put this armored oddity in the spotlight, but the fight to save its trench home is just beginning.
By Ethan Denma • Feb 7, 2026
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This Spider's "Necklace" Was Actually Predatory Parasites Feeding
A string of pearl-like beads on a Brazilian spider turned out to be a new species of mite worthy of a Pixar animated horror film.
By Ethan Denma • Jan 28, 2026
Shark Ménage à Trois Filmed for the First Time & It Could Help Save Species
Y Tu Mamá Tiburón? The underwater zebra shark threesome starred two dudes and a lady.
By Milky Way News Editorial • Jan 5, 2026
The Dragon Man Connection: How a Damaged Fossil From China Could Rewrite Human History
The Dragon Man was already an evolutionary enigma. The ancient skull's story just got stranger.
By Milky Way News Editorial • Dec 28, 2025
Scientists Probe Mushroom Linked to Surreal Visions of Little People
Unlike so-called “magic mushrooms,” the research shows that this little-known fungi does not contain any known psychedelic compounds that produce the classic effects associated with psilocybin ingestion.
By Milky Way News Editorial • Dec 10, 2025
Kissing’s Evolutionary Roots Run Deeper Than Humanity, Scientists Say
Your last make-out session had 20 million years of foreplay.
By Milky Way News Editorial • Dec 3, 2025
Ant “Game of Thrones”: A Parasitic Queen Engineers A Chemical Coup D'etat
The queen perfected the ultimate hostile takeover by tricking the workers into murdering their own mother, then seizing the throne.
By Ethan Denma • Nov 18, 2025