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Recent research published in the Journal of Writing Research suggests that the written language of people with schizophrenia provides evidence about their specific symptom profiles. The study indicates that analyzing how these individuals...

SciTech Daily

A new approach to CAR-T therapy is redefining how cancer-fighting immune cells can be engineered. For years, one of the most effective treatments for certain blood cancers, known as CAR-T cell therapy, has relied on a complex, multi-step...

SciTech Daily

A long-term Swedish study suggests that the relationship between diet and dementia may be more complex than previously understood. Older adults with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease did not show the expected rise in...

Popular Science

From a solitary leopard in Botswana to a herd of buffaloes in Sri Lanka, and a church in Slovenia to a rocky landscape in Saudi Arabia, beauty exists in all corners of our humble planet. The Sony World Photography Awards celebrates...

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Swapping animal-based fats for vegetable oils is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia in older adults. Based on a long-term analysis of dietary habits, researchers found that the specific types of fat a person consumes...

SciTech Daily

A new study explores how the extreme biology of pythons may point to an unexpected path for obesity research. Pythons don’t nibble. They chomp, squeeze, and swallow their prey whole in a meal that can approach 100% of their body weight....

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Qilimanjaro is selling a relatively cheap kit with everything you need for a quantum computer – you just need to be able to put it together

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Learn more about the ancient life that used to inhabit Mammoth Cave, and how the cave conditions were just right to help preserve some of these remains. 

PsyPost

People with higher childhood intelligence scores tend to express more socially progressive attitudes as adults, but this connection depends heavily on whether they attend college. A new study reveals that advanced education acts as a...

Singularity Hub

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI Is Throwing Everything Into Building a Fully Automated ResearcherWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ($) “The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully...

Popular Science

Helvetica and verdana aren’t just fonts. They’re also a few of the new names bestowed upon sea turtles that a team from the New England Aquarium’s turtle hospital rehabilitated this year. This winter, almost 500 live turtles washed up...

Scientific American

Infectious disease experts say shots against meningococcal meningitis can be lifesaving during an outbreak, but U.S. regulators have attempted to roll back recommendations of such a vaccine for children

SciTech Daily

Tiny fossils from Hokkaido are revealing a surprisingly mobile ancient ocean during a warmer world. A team led by researchers at Kumamoto University has identified a new genus of microscopic crustaceans in northern Japan, providing fresh...

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Bull sharks form social bonds and prefer certain companions, challenging the idea that they are solitary predators. These connections may help them learn, find food, and avoid conflict. New research shows that bull sharks develop social...

The Guardian

Sightings in Varginha in 1996 have been dismissed as hoax, but saga continues to draw people from around world The skies over this far-flung coffee-growing hub went charcoal black, the heavens opened and one of Brazil’s greatest mysteries...

PsyPost

New research published in the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology suggests that severe menstrual pain impacts much more than physical comfort. The findings provide evidence that women experiencing...

Science Focus

Deep down, you probably believe you can sniff out lies like a bad smell. Perhaps inspired by Poirot or Sherlock Holmes, you may have confidence in your strong gut instinct and powers of deduction. It’s okay if you do – you’re not alone....

Scientific American

A cybercrime campaign called GlassWorm is hiding malware in invisible characters and spreading it through software that millions of developers rely on

Scientific American

Damage to the blood-brain barrier is linked to immune changes and cognitive decline

SciTech Daily

Old-growth boreal forests may be hiding much more of their climate value underground than anyone realized. The planet’s northern forests hold enormous amounts of carbon in spruce, pine, and thick, needle-rich soils. But a major new study...

Ars Technica

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: "again." The paper itself cited similar...

Science Focus

Maya artefacts are something you'd probably expect to find in an archaeological site in Mexico or hidden in ruins buried deep in the Central American jungle. A startling number of them turn up in Europe, however – a legacy of the pillaging...

Science News

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses how science and armed conflict have been intertwined throughout history, from the Greeks in 400 B.C. to the use of tear gas in the protests across the United States as recently as a few months ago.

Ars Technica

Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the US government built its first rudimentary nuclear power...

PsyPost

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the brain learns to associate a specific signal with a reward based on the amount of time that passes between rewards, rather than the sheer number of repetitions. This...

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On Tuesday, CERN will transport antiprotons on a truck for the first time, testing the plan to deliver antimatter by road to research labs across Europe

SciTech Daily

A new study sheds light on why promising cancer treatments can produce dramatically different results across patients. One of the biggest challenges in cancer treatment is that a therapy that works well for one patient may completely fail...

SciTech Daily

An immune-related gene has now been tied to a rare inherited neurological disorder, revealing an overlooked pathway in the nervous system. Even with today’s high-throughput sequencing tools, many rare movement disorders still do not have a...

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UT Southwestern discovery could lead to a novel approach for treating heart disease and fatty liver disease. Two researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a protein that helps regulate how the liver releases...

Universe Today

You just established a settlement on an Earth-like planetary body far from our solar system. You did your evening chores after eating dinner, and you want to go out for the evening view, which consists of two setting stars, reminiscent of...

PsyPost

An analysis of the Einstein Aging Study data showed that older adults who experience longer nighttime wakefulness tend to have slower processing speed, worse working memory, and worse visual memory binding. On an individual level,...

PsyPost

Happier Japanese adults live longer, according to a new study published in Health Psychology, which found that people who described themselves as unhappy faced a significantly higher risk of death over a seven‑year period. Happiness has...

NASA Breaking News

NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft flew its second flight on March 20, 2026, near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA/Jim Ross NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft made its second flight...

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Learn how whale fossils and embedded shark teeth reveal feeding behavior and scavenging in the Early Pliocene North Sea ecosystem.

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Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America. 

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Learn how a Roman polybolos unleashed rapid-fire projectiles during the siege of Pompeii. 

PsyPost

Narcissism is often viewed purely as a toxic personality trait, but it actually contains different elements that can either protect or harm a person’s mental well-being. A recent review of hundreds of previous studies found that while...

Ars Technica

For the fourth time in a little more than a year, the US Space Force needs to send up a new satellite to replenish the military's GPS navigation network. And once again, the company the Pentagon is paying to launch it can't answer the...

Universe Today

Astronomers have found the first case of a brown dwarf binary pair experiencing mass transfer. The pair are very close to one another, with an orbital period of only 57 minutes. The pair will eventually merge into one, brighter star, or...

NASA Breaking News

Hangar One at Moffett Federal Airfield, Moffett Field, California, in 2006. Credits: NASA/Dominic Hart Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 25, 2022 and has been updated to reflect changes including the completion...

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Learn more about cross-species adoption and why there are so few recorded cases of it. 

Scientific American

An astoundingly strong heat wave is not just setting records across the western U.S.— it’s pulverizing them

NASA Breaking News

5 min read How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Nov. 30, 2025, as observed by the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument on NASA’s Hubble Space...

NASA Breaking News

Image Credit: National Institute of Aerospace NASA selected 14 university teams from across the nation as finalists in the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition. This NASA challenge tasks...

PsyPost

You’ve been on the dating market for months, wondering how to catch the right partner’s attention. New research shows that how you tell your story may matter as much as what you say about yourself. If you feel like you’re doing everything...

SciTech Daily

Ocean waves offer a massive and steady source of renewable energy, but capturing that power efficiently has remained a stubborn challenge. A researcher at the University of Osaka has explored a new solution: a gyroscopic wave energy...

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A tiny plant’s molecular “velcro” could help crops turn sunlight into food more efficiently. An international team of scientists has identified a surprising molecular strategy used by a rare group of land plants. This discovery could...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself apart

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place and minimal damage. Some believe the same could be done with the brains of people with a terminal illness, so their mind can be reconstructed and they can "continue...

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Find out what’s speeding up Earth’s rotation and why it may force timekeepers to delete a second