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You’re trying to get noticed in a crowded dating market. But as new research shows, the very strategies that grab attention might be the exact ones pushing love away. When my daughter was a teenager, she uploaded a photo of herself in a...

The Guardian

Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inaction A new set of studies out this month suggests that as many as half of all results published in reputable journals in the social...

Popular Science

Queen bees may get most of the glory, but there is another queen of the animal kingdom who is the linchpin of her entire society. Queen naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) reign over their underground kingdoms as the bearer of all...

NASA Breaking News

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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has finished the most detailed survey of the universe to date, and the resulting map will help researchers understand an apparent weakening of dark energy

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A detailed analysis of the best-preserved Neanderthal infant skeleton ever found suggests that our ancient relatives grew much faster as young children

Scientific American

Do declining immune systems explain the trend, or is something else going on? Experts explain

Scientific American

If the U.S. is ever to set up a permanent outpost on the moon, it will need nuclear power. The White House just released a road map to get it as soon as 2028

SciTech Daily

Researchers have, for the first time, described the properties of one-dimensional anyons and outlined how these particles can be observed using existing experimental setups. Physicists have traditionally classified all elementary particles...

The Guardian

Prof Michael Krawczak says the required molecular genetic testing comes at a cost, but should not be ruled out as it was in a recent court case I read with great astonishment your article regarding the court of appeal’s decision on proving...

Universe Today

European researchers tested four-legged semi-autonomous rovers that carry only two instruments. These capable and agile robots could be part of the future exploration of Mars and the Moon. Their autonomy means they can do more with fewer...

Science News

At-home breath tests could reveal insights about gut health, though their ability to assess food intolerances is not yet clear.

NASA Breaking News

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Wired Science

In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy Information Administration tells two senators that it plans to develop a mandatory assessment of data centers' energy use.

PsyPost

A recent study published in the journal Neuropharmacology provides evidence that a single dose of the psychedelic compound N,N-dimethyltryptamine can produce rapid and long-lasting antidepressant effects in mice. The research suggests that...

SciTech Daily

Researchers report that methane absorption has increased under shifting climate conditions, based on a long-term study conducted in Germany. Forest soils play a key role in regulating the climate by removing large amounts of methane, a...

SciTech Daily

Researchers are uncovering how underground water systems sustain the Grand Canyon and how they are changing over time. Every year at Grand Canyon National Park, millions of visitors pause at one of the park’s water spigots. Some are...

Science Focus

Astronomers have spotted what appears to be two supermassive black holes locked in a death spiral at the heart of a distant galaxy – and they could collide in as little as 100 years.  The pair, discovered at the centre of the galaxy...

Ars Technica

Visualization shows how DESI built its 3D map of the Universe. Earth is at the center of the wedges, and every point is a galaxy. Credit: DESI/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor In a significant milestone, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic...

Popular Science

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently exposed a major international smuggling operation orchestrated across at least three cities around the country. In a social media post, the agency confirmed its inspectors seized...

NASA Breaking News

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Water ice highlighted Interstellar dust highlighted These observations made by NASA’s SPHEREx mission reveal vast frozen complexes in the...

NASA Breaking News

NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA’s Artemis II crew – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – smile at friends, family, and colleagues. They shared brief remarks...

Scientific American

Laying eggs may have helped mammal ancestors thrive after Earth’s worst mass extinction

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Learn how Mount Etna stands apart from most volcanoes, having been formed by pockets of magma held in Earth's upper mantle. 

Science News

In a study, people with gene variants in two genes lost slightly more weight on GLP-1 drugs, but threw up more on Zepbound.

Quanta Magazine

Evolutionary arms races — where one species is pitted against another, driving the evolution of new or more sophisticated weapons as each tries to gain the upper hand — are ubiquitous in nature. One of the oldest and fiercest battles has...

Chemistry World

Mantisonix is using ultrasound to destroy fluorochemical pollutants in water

Universe Today

April flowers mean one thing to springtime sky-watchers: it’s time for the Lyrid meteor shower. The Lyrids are always a good bet, and always make the top ten list for annual meteor showers. And to top it off, 2026 is a favorable year for...

SciTech Daily

An international research team from Germany, the UK, and Greece has found evidence that wooden tools were used in Greece 430,000 years ago. An international collaboration involving researchers from the Universities of Tübingen and Reading...

Ars Technica

At the end of last month, a scientific journal pulled a research paper on Alzheimer's disease. The retraction came from Neurobiology of Aging, which removed a 2011 paper claiming to show that a version of a protein called amyloid-β...

PsyPost

A study in Taiwan found that individuals who were more motivated to play online games tended to show higher post-game imagination. Imagination, in turn, was associated with greater creativity, indicating that gaming motivation might...

Chemistry World

Call to rethink how photocatalytic hydrogen production is assessed and reported

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. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work? ...

Popular Science

The megalodon (Otodus megalodon) is another step closer to becoming the first state shark in the United States. At the last second, a bill to name the extinct behemoth Maryland’s state shark passed on the final day of the legislative...

Science News

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the way people do math.

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn more about what we know — and don’t know — about the Carnian Pluvial Event.

SciTech Daily

By manipulating ultrafast quantum particles under extreme conditions, researchers have begun to probe growth dynamics in unprecedented detail. Why do patterns emerge as surfaces grow, whether in crystals, flames, or living systems?...

Popular Science

There are countless TikTok videos that go like this: Someone says something to their dog, the dog’s head swings to one side, with ears up and eyes on the owner. Whoever’s filming can barely hold the camera steady because it’s just too dang...

Scientific American

By making people feel as if they inhabit a younger version of their own face, researchers can bring childhood memories into sharper focus

Universe Today

Venus has been hiding a secret for fifty years. Just below its main cloud deck sits a mysterious layer of haze that spacecraft first detected in the 1970s and nobody could explain where it came from. Now a research team in Japan has...

MIT Technology Review

From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone. The app asks him to upload a photo associated with the account, so he clicks on a picture of a 30-something Asian man....

PsyPost

New research published in the journal NeuroImage suggests that spending more time on social media is associated with physical differences in the developing brains of young adolescents. Specifically, children who spent more hours on digital...

Popular Science

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Picture yourself in a wind-swept forest. Leaves are rustling and trunks are creaking as trees sway to and fro. This oscillation might seem...

Smithsonian Magazine

From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs for paleontologists

SciTech Daily

As human development increasingly encroaches on the Amazon, researchers find that the growing boundary between forests and urban areas is accelerating the spillover of yellow fever into human populations. Human activity is pushing deeper...

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A common genetic mutation linked to alcohol intolerance may also play a far more dangerous role in heart disease than previously understood. Around 40% of people of East Asian descent experience alcohol intolerance, often called “Asian...

Wired Science

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet.

Chemistry World

Impact on petrochemicals, fertilisers and various co-products like helium and sulfur will ripple throughout extensive supply chains

Universe Today

Every star you've ever looked at is hiding a magnetic secret and it may have been hiding it since birth. A new theoretical study has connected, for the first time, the magnetic fields detected deep inside dying red giants with the...