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Hiding in plain sight.

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A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the 1,600-year-old tensions between Tikal and the central Mexican capital of Teotihuacan. Just steps from the center of...

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A new flaxseed and pea protein supplement may cut dairy cow methane emissions and boost milk production efficiency. University of Florida researchers are testing a new type of cattle feed that could help dairy cows release less methane gas...

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A massive wildfire erupted in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens in April 2025, highlighting the delicate line between nature’s cycles and modern-day risk. Fueled by a severe drought, the fire rapidly spread across more than 15,000 acres, forcing...

NASA Breaking News

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) On April 16, 2025, the Earth Science Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley held an Earth Science Showcase to share its work with the center...

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Chinese researchers traced 2023 Icelandic volcanic emissions to Arctic smog, showing 80% of Ny-Ålesund’s sulfur dioxide came from the eruption. A research team led by Professors Si Fuqi and Yuhan Luo at the Hefei Institutes of Physical...

NASA Breaking News

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Gateway’s HALO module at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona, on April 4, 2025, shortly after its arrival from Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy....

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"It reveals that we may be able to take action."

Singularity Hub

The drugs disrupted communication between the brain and immune system to lower stress in mice. From depression to post-traumatic stress disorder, psychedelic drugs combined with therapy might ease symptoms. Once a counterculture outcast,...

Livescience

A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific community. Here’s the truth about what the James Webb Space Telescope saw.

Livescience

But should we use them?

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Learn more about the bone collector, a cannibalistic, carnivorous caterpillar seen for the first time in over six million years.

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Learn about the escalating threat of volcanoes in Iceland and how a new warning system is helping to inform the public when eruptions will occur.

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Though it may be a small percent, learn how some shark bites occur as a self-defense mechanism against human aggression.

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

The US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation and AI-generated deepfakes, even as misleading information runs rampant on social media

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"A critical evolutionary milestone."

PsyPost

A large-scale study has found that adults with higher percentages of body fat, especially in the legs, gynoid region, and head, tend to report more symptoms of depression. This connection was most evident among men and those classified as...

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Although only tested in rats thus far, the polymer-based treatment could repair tissue that are impacted in a variety of diseases.

Ars Technica

What does the "typical" exosolar system look like? We know it's not likely to look like our own Solar System, given that our familiar planets don't include entire classes of planets (Hot Jupiters! Mini-Neptunes!) that we've found...

NASA Breaking News

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals ...

Livescience

As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning

Livescience

A breakthrough in Hilbert's sixth problem is a major step in grounding physics in math

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Beer prices might soon rise as climate change threatens barley crops, but an unexpected savior is emerging from rice paddies. The post Barley Is In Trouble. Can Rice Save The Beer Industry? appeared first on Study Finds.

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Two independently conducted studies—one in the United States and one in Europe—set out to test whether a single dose of testosterone could influence men’s willingness to compete, confidence, or risk-taking. The results, published in the...

Livescience

An inscription with the name of Ramesses III has been discovered in southern Jordan.

SciTech Daily

The brain alone can trigger immune changes associated with fasting, reshaping how we understand the mind-body connection in immune health. New research from the University of Manchester is challenging long-held beliefs about how the immune...

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The discovery broadens the known spectrum of this rare disorder, emphasizing the critical role of collaboration with patient advocates. A newly discovered subtype of Castleman disease promises to improve diagnosis and treatment for...

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AI model reveals the structural secrets of misfolded proteins. A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool has provided critical insights into how disease-related proteins misfold into harmful structures, an important step forward in...

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A not-so-safe environment.

Scientific American

Science is key to diplomacy, unity and democracy. What the Trump administration is trying to do to it will weaken the U.S.

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Text-generating AIs such as ChatGPT can be used to hide encrypted messages inside fake conversations, which could help people living under oppressive regimes communicate secretly

Wired Science

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red Planet.

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Not all zombie skin cells are the same. New research reveals three unique subtypes with different roles in aging and disease, offering hope for targeted treatments that eliminate the bad while keeping the good. Senescent skin cells, often...

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For the first time, researchers have created comprehensive maps of women’s erogenous and aversive zones, pinpointing exactly which areas of the vulva, vagina, and breasts contribute most to sexual pleasure—and which are often avoided....

Livescience

Large hailstones made of ammonia may explain why the gas is missing from large pockets of Jupiter's atmosphere.

Livescience

Researchers modeled how measles might spread in the U.S. in the coming decades, showing that more than 50 million cases could occur if current vaccination rates fell by half.

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Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, geochemical evidence from India suggests

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Squat rhinos lived in North America about 12 million years ago, congregating in huge, water-bound herds much like modern hippos.

NASA Breaking News

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72). ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto, M. Libralato As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency...

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Campaigners and experts are raising the alarm after video footage obtained by BBC Science Focus reveals that inner-city poultry markets in New York are failing to take recommended precautions to protect staff and the public, as bird flu...

Science Focus

Intermittent fasting has become a popular strategy for boosting health and metabolism, but a new study suggests that its benefits may be blunted by body fat, thanks to a hidden disruption in the liver’s ability to adapt to starvation....

Livescience

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in the afterlife, researchers say.

Cosmos

Knowing how much methane is leaking into the atmosphere from anthropogenic sources like oil, gas, coal and cows is critical as humans heat up the planet. Now UNSW researchers are trialling  a new plane-mounted hyperspectral camera to...

Ars Technica

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The latest anomaly in the climate system that can’t...

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A new study published in the journal Development and Psychopathology offers a new perspective on why some individuals with elevated autistic traits struggle to recognize emotions in faces. Researchers found that while autistic traits were...

NASA Breaking News

Students take a tour of the Glenn International Space Station Payload Operations Center at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, where researchers operate International Space Station experiments, during 4-H Day on June 14,...

NASA Breaking News

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics...

Cosmos

Chicken produced with 1125-fiber bioreactor. Credit: Shoji Takeuchi, The University of Tokyo Cultured or lab-grown meats have been touted as next great alternative to animal products since the first artificial burger patty was grown in...

Scientific American

Phoenician civilization spread its culture and alphabet across the Mediterranean but not, evidently, its DNA

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Scientists have discovered that a rare immune cell type in the lungs, called NAMs, plays a crucial role in surviving COVID-19 by keeping the body’s immune response from turning dangerously destructive. Rather than simply battling the...