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Learn how ravens in Yellowstone National Park use spatial memory and navigation to locate wolf kills across the landscape without following wolves.

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Young adults with depression exhibit unusual cellular energy patterns in both their brains and blood, characterized by cells that overwork at rest but fail to respond adequately to physical stress. This biological signature of fatigue...

Popular Science

When wolves are on the hunt, a kill rarely goes unnoticed for long. In the elk- and deer-rich areas of northern Yellowstone National Park, ravens are often among the first scavengers to arrive on the scene, swooping down to feast on scraps...

SciTech Daily

A team of physicists has uncovered a hidden topological structure within one of the most widely used sources of quantum entanglement. Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, working together with scientists...

Universe Today

So why should we expect interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS and 'Oumuamua and even to some extent Borisov to be different-different?

NASA Breaking News

This pair of images shows stars observed Feb. 6, 2026, by the SPARCS space telescope simultaneously in the near-ultraviolet, left, and far-ultraviolet, right. The fact that one star is seen in the far-UV while multiple are seen in near-UV...

Science Focus

A 74-million-year-old leg bone from a fossil bed in New Mexico could be an early relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, suggests a new study published in Scientific Reports.  The find adds weight to the theory that T. rex's lineage originated...

Scientific American

GPS spoofing is distorting vessel positions and deepening the risk in one of the world’s most important shipping lanes

Ars Technica

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated trade network—one it used to import live parrots across the Andes from the Amazon rainforest. Australian National...

StudyFinds.org

Walk through the woods in the northeastern United States and there is a reasonable chance any tick that latches on is carrying something dangerous. The post Forget Just Lyme Disease: Study Reveals A Broader Tick-Borne Threat in Northeast...

SciTech Daily

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull. New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are shedding fresh light on a strange...

SciTech Daily

Researchers created a technique to reduce uncertainty in cosmic birefringence measurements, resolving a key phase ambiguity and improving future studies of fundamental physics. A research team examining the uncertainties linked to cosmic...

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A recent study published in the journal Addictive Behaviors provides evidence that nearly one in five people seeking help for gambling problems experiences suicidal thoughts. The research suggests that factors like overwhelming debt and a...

NASA Breaking News

1 min read Help Galaxy Zoo: Tidal Tales Open Cosmic Storybook Galaxies carry the imprints of past encounters. When they pass near one another or collide, gravity pulls their stars into long tails, thin streams, and faint shells –...

NASA Breaking News

Two powerful instruments of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic galaxy view. This spiral galaxy is named NGC 5134, and it’s located 65 million light-years away in the constellation...

Science News

A new analysis of a large fossil shinbone suggests T. rex ancestors came from North America instead of Asia. Not everyone agrees.

Universe Today

MIT physicists have observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma, confirming the plasma behaves like a liquid.

Scientific American

Random coin flips, floppy needles and mathematical mysteries reveal pi in new ways

Scientific American

The conflict in the Middle East is causing the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” the International Energy Agency says

Scientific American

China and the U.S. are in a high-stakes race to build permanent lunar outposts. Can both nations coexist on the moon?

Chemistry World

Deyond hydrocarbons, helium and sulfur – byproducts of petroleum extraction – have also been critically affected by Iran’s blockade of Gulf exports

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Vitamin D didn’t blunt COVID’s initial impact—but it may hold a surprising clue in the fight against long COVID. A large randomized study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham found that taking high doses of vitamin D3 did not lessen...

NASA Breaking News

Download PDF: Efficient Large Displacement/Large Rotation Dynamic Simulations Using Nonlinear Dynamic Substructures Utilizing reduced-order dynamic math models (DMM) in linear system-level dynamic analyses is a well-known practice that...

StudyFinds.org

A new study finds rising atmospheric CO2 may already be shifting human blood chemistry, with scientists warning that bicarbonate levels could approach dangerous highs within 50 years. The post Scientists Link Rising CO2 To Shifts In Human...

Ars Technica

In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the US was relatively rare—a few hundred cases each year, at most. But suddenly, the disease has become so entrenched in American life that it sometimes fails to make headlines when a...

Chemistry World

Move by Florida and Texas could be ‘devastating’ for research and other sectors experts warn amid concerns bans could spread

Scientific American

A company that makes surgical simulators released a tool to train clinicians to diagnose a deep form of endometriosis

Scientific American

This interstellar visitor is “bursting with methanol,” according to one scientist

Universe Today

We’re starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history is, as more exoplanets are discovered. A fourth exoplanet discovery in the LHS 1903 system made by ESA’s CHEOPS mission places a rocky world right where it...

MIT Technology Review

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze  In January, Beijing-based...

Science News

Environmental cues can flip a molecular switch in the brain, turning males from caregivers to killers.

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A recent study published in Sociological Science reveals that a Texas program transporting migrants to cities led by Democratic mayors boosted presidential support for Donald Trump in those specific destinations during the 2024 election....

SciTech Daily

Nicotine exposure in fathers may quietly reshape their children’s metabolism, hinting at a hidden link to diabetes risk. New research published today (March 12) in the Journal of the Endocrine Society suggests that nicotine exposure in...

Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers around the world are attempting to create a safer and more effective treatment in hopes of saving hundreds of thousands of lives

Universe Today

For 45 years, astronomers believed that stars like our Sun would eventually flip their rotation pattern as they aged with the poles speeding up and the equator slowing down. It was one of those theoretical predictions that seemed rock...

Universe Today

Three years ago, a detector sitting on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea recorded a single subatomic particle carrying more energy than anything of its kind ever seen before. Where it came from has been a mystery ever since. Now,...

MIT Technology Review

The impact of artificial intelligence extends far beyond the digital world and into our everyday lives, across the cars we drive, the appliances in our homes, and medical devices that keep people alive. More and more, product engineers are...

Popular Science

By some estimates, insects make up 80 percent of named animal species. They’re found all over the world and in all manner of places, from rainforests and deserts to (much to our displeasure) human homes and bodies. But surprisingly,...

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Star Nathan Fillion is stoking rumours that cult western-in-space television series Firefly could be rebooted. Emily H. Wilson realises she is being toyed with – but is still praying for its return

SciTech Daily

Scientists discovered that crops exposed to trace pharmaceuticals in recycled water mostly stash the compounds in their leaves—not the parts we usually eat. In regions where freshwater supplies are limited, farmers sometimes rely on...

Scientific American

Fuzzy, fast-breathing robots can make humans more afraid

StudyFinds.org

Stepping onto a New York City subway platform in July feels less like waiting for a train and more like walking into a sauna with a MetroCard, and new research out of Northwestern University confirms that feeling is well-founded. The post...

Universe Today

“Follow the water” has been a guiding mantra of astrobiology, and even space exploration more generally for decades. If you want to find life, it makes sense to look for the universal solvent that almost all types of life on Earth use. But...

PsyPost

The human tendency to prefer immediate rewards over long-term goals is partly rooted in our DNA, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Human Biology. The findings suggest that these genetic differences are also...

SciTech Daily

New research suggests that explanations based only on climate may not fully account for the major decline of the lowland population in Central America and calls for a reassessment of those assumptions. Between 750 and 900 CE, the...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Teenagers are being bombarded with highly targeted commercial content on TikTok, despite an EU law that prohibits profiling minors for advertising

MIT Technology Review

Just a few years ago, the battery industry was hot, hot, hot. There was a seemingly infinite number of companies popping up, with shiny new chemistries and massive fundraising rounds. My biggest problem was sifting through the pile to pick...

PsyPost

A recent study published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition has found that interacting with an artificial intelligence partner alters our sense of control in unexpected ways. When people work on a task alongside a virtual agent...