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Maya Wei-Haas

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Tooth from mysterious human relative adds new wrinkles to their story

18 May 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas, Michael Greshko

New clues reveal the devastation the day the dinosaurs died

23 March 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

This huge black diamond just sold for £3.1 million. No one knows where it came from.

10 February 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

Accidental implosion yields new measurement for ocean's deepest point

9 February 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

The volcanic explosion in Tonga destroyed an island—and created many mysteries

24 January 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

Mysterious purple coating found on Mars rocks

17 January 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

See a rare baby dinosaur curled up in its fossilised egg

22 December 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Ancient footprints hint at mysterious human relative with a strange walk

4 December 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

How one image captures 21 hours of a volcanic eruption

11 November 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Ancient child’s bones deepen mystery of enigmatic human relative

5 November 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan

27 October 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Fossil footprints challenge theory of when people first arrived in Americas

24 September 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Revel in the tiny marvels seen through a microscope

14 September 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Mars rover grabs first rock sample, a major step in hunt for alien life

7 September 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Fossilised egg from prehistoric giant turtle reveals baby inside

19 August 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

NASA’s first Mars sample appears to have crumbled to bits

17 August 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Here’s what makes earthquakes so devastating in Haiti

15 August 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Biggest U.S. earthquake in more than 50 years strikes Alaska—here’s what we can learn

30 July 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

890-million-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found

29 July 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Chunk of an ancient supercontinent discovered under New Zealand

22 July 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas