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Observations by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) show the infrared light emitted by the dust, water, organic molecules, and carbon dioxide contained within comet...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Scientists have captured remarkable footage of the young of a mouse-sized marsupial, called a fat-tailed dunnart, making their way to their mother’s pouch soon after being born

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn how a second pair of eyes helped this 518-million-year-old fish evade predators.

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Learn more about the Bergstrom site in Montana, which was abandoned by bison hunters in response to their changing climate.

Nautilus

Larry Carbone has spent his entire career thinking about what happens to animals in research labs. As a veterinarian with specialization in lab animal medicine, he has made friends with many caged creatures: monkeys, pythons, mice, shrimp....

Popular Science

The results of a new camera-trap survey in Southeast Asia is revealing a bevy of hidden biodiversity tucked within the Annamites mountain range. This largely unexplored wildlife hotspot has a forest stretching 683 miles (1,100 kilometers)...

Ars Technica

The upgraded Super Heavy booster slated to launch SpaceX's next Starship flight has completed cryogenic proof testing, clearing a hurdle that resulted in the destruction of the company's previous booster. SpaceX announced the milestone in...

The Guardian

Biggest improvements seen in young adults and new mothers, with group activities of most benefit Aerobic exercise such as running, swimming or dancing can be considered a frontline treatment for mild depression and anxiety, according to...

Universe Today

So we did that. And we found nothing. So far, with all of our experiments around the world, we find no evidence of missing momentum, and no signs of towers of gravitons slipping away into hidden dimensions.

PsyPost

New research suggests that the way adolescents use social media is not a uniform experience but rather splits into distinct personality-driven profiles that yield varying social results. The findings indicate that digital platforms largely...

SciTech Daily

From dancing to swimming, exercise may be one of the most effective—and overlooked—treatments for depression and anxiety. Activities that raise the heart rate, including running, swimming, and dancing, appear to be especially effective at...

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn about the Amsterdam Island cows, who against all odds took over a subantarctic ocean island deep in the southern Indian Ocean.

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Learn more about Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-shaped land vertebrate who may have enjoyed snacking on plants.

SciTech Daily

Scientists uncover a new “recipe” that shows how exhausted T cells can be reprogrammed to regain their ability to attack tumors. When cancer or a stubborn infection keeps the immune system in a prolonged fight, some of its most important...

PsyPost

A new analysis of long-term dietary habits suggests that your daily cup of coffee or tea might do more than just provide a morning jolt. Researchers have determined that moderate consumption of caffeinated beverages is linked to a lower...

Nautilus

During World War II, a woman named Vesta Stoudt took part in the war effort by working in a munitions plant in Illinois. There, she packed up cartridges that sent rifle grenades whizzing through the air. Stoudt would place these pieces of...

Universe Today

Astronomers used the XRISM x-ray satellite to observe two supermassive black holes in two separate galaxy clusters. Researchers know that SMBH have powerful effects on star formation and galaxy evolution. The observations reveal new...

Scientific American

The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness independently of U.S. government health agencies

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn how boar populations in Fukushima’s evacuation zone are evolving rapidly after mating with abandoned domesticated pigs.

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Learn how an ancient fish gene was repurposed to shape the anatomy of human hands.

Wired Science

Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do more than four full rotations in the air.

NPR Science

Edible cotton seeds could revolutionize the cotton industry. That's the goal of  one researcher who says the seeds would be an inexpensive protein source that could help feed millions of people.

PsyPost

A longitudinal study in Christchurch, New Zealand found that individuals who displayed the most severe ADHD symptoms as adolescents were at an elevated risk of developing substance use disorder, depression, and suicidal ideation in early...

SciTech Daily

Researchers have identified a bone-driven signaling pathway that may explain how spinal degeneration leads to chronic pain. Low back pain (LBP) ranks among the most widespread health conditions across the globe. It affects people at every...

SciTech Daily

As population immunity continues to grow, understanding how immune responses influence both disease outcomes and viral evolution has become increasingly important. Years of vaccination and repeated exposure have left many people with some...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Once considered an oddity of quantum physics, time crystals could be a good building block for accurate clocks and sensors, according to new calculations

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave art that we don’t have the technology to date. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how we determine what came...

Wired Science

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn how a fever-related molecule activates emotional brain circuits, which intensify chills and drive warmth-seeking behavior during infection.

Singularity Hub

The unexpectedly large impact of genetics could spur new efforts to find longevity genes. Laura Oliveira fell in love with swimming at 70. She won her first competition three decades later. Longevity runs in her family. Her aunt Geny...

Nautilus

Termites are capable of constructing sprawling colonies containing millions of individuals, a complex social structure that evolved at least 100 million years ago. But how did they come to be so organized? A new study published in Science...

SciTech Daily

Scientists found that synchronizing activity between two brain regions made people more generous. A new study suggests that synchronizing activity in specific parts of the brain can make people more likely to act generously. Research...

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...

PsyPost

When people feel physically closer to someone who could be harmed, they are less willing to sacrifice that person for the greater good, according to a new finding reported in Cognition & Emotion. Moral dilemmas, situations where any...

Popular Science

Arkansas is hundreds of miles from the Gulf of Mexico, but it’s home to countless sharks. They aren’t swimming in any body of water, however. A trove of the fossilized predator’s remains are embedded within the Fayetteville Shale—a roughly...

Science Focus

Can I swallow my tongue? No, it's a myth. Although the tongue can move in different directions, being attached to the base of your mouth generally keeps it from moving that far back. If it does move backwards, say, during a seizure, then...

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SciTech Daily

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information. Since computers first began shaping modern society, scientists have faced two ongoing problems: finding ways to store...

Science News

After 10 years, just over half the people in a trial of antibiotics for appendicitis have not needed an appendectomy.

MIT Technology Review

In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his work. But he grew frustrated with the...

Nautilus

If we’re ever going to send humans to Mars, a crew would have to spend several years on the round trip. This far-off ambition would require a thorough understanding of how space affects the human body, which scientists haven’t yet fully...

PsyPost

New research published in the journal Physiology & Behavior provides evidence that sexual activity shortly before high-intensity exercise does not harm athletic performance. The study suggests that masturbation-induced orgasm 30...

NASA Breaking News

NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronaut Chris Williams pointed a camera out a window on the cupola as a set of CubeSats were deployed outside the Kibo laboratory module by a small satellite orbital deployer into Earth orbit....

SciTech Daily

A new liquid-metal process powered by light could reshape how hydrogen is produced. Scientists have found a new way to make clean hydrogen from water using liquid metal and light, and it works with both freshwater and seawater. Instead of...

SciTech Daily

By uncovering the molecular interactions that give spider silk its remarkable properties, researchers have revealed principles that could inspire advanced materials and shed light on biological processes far beyond the spider’s web....

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the origins of life and mind in one fell swoop

Scientific American

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning

Scientific American

If a pulsar that may lie at the center of our galaxy is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the spacetime around the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole

Popular Science

In the regions surrounding the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in northeast Japan, radioactive domestic pigs and wild boar are rapidly interbreeding. While far from the only recent incident of animal hybridization, the situation is...