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NASA/Bill Ingalls The first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century are back on Earth after a record-setting mission aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (commander), Christina Koch...

PsyPost

A generalized tendency to believe in secret plots can predict whether someone will oppose the construction of a local wind farm months later. Likewise, coming to oppose that local wind farm can deepen a person’s general conspiratorial...

The Guardian

Exclusive: Pre-chemotherapy tests previously did not look for gene variant that put some ethnicities at higher risk of serious side effects Thousands of cancer patients from minority ethnic backgrounds will have access to “groundbreaking”...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside. That job currently falls to Anatoly Doroshenko, who explains the dangers and importance of his work to New...

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If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation shut down, the knock-on effects could release hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2, raising global temperatures even further

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Forty years ago, the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl sent plumes of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Now, New Scientist has gained exclusive access to learn how vital work to decontaminate the site has been derailed by Russia’s...

Science News

Advances in decoding animal sounds might someday make animal translators a possibility.

Scientific American

A man with HIV has gone into remission after receiving bone marrow from his brother, who has a rare mutation that prevents the function of receptors that HIV binds to

Scientific American

After all these years, Dream Chaser—a commercial U.S. space plane—is still chasing the dream of spacecraft that can fly from orbit to airports

SciTech Daily

A new approach reveals unexpected ways oxygen can bind to rare metals. Iron plays a central role in how the body uses oxygen. In hemoglobin, it binds dioxygen, a pair of oxygen atoms, allowing blood to carry oxygen to tissues. But this is...

MIT Technology Review

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In an industry that doesn’t stand still, Stanford’s AI Index, an annual roundup of key results...

PsyPost

People who regularly engage in advanced meditation techniques may possess brains that appear biologically younger than their actual chronological age. By measuring electrical activity in the brain during sleep, researchers found that...

NASA Breaking News

4 Min Read NASA Night-light Imagery Tracks US Energy Transition, Global Volatility This data visualization shows how nighttime light changed between 2014 and 2022 around the globe. For each date range, we see how much night...

SciTech Daily

Scientists found that “boring” ocean faults may be quietly storing vast amounts of Earth’s carbon. “Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell,” says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry...

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Satellite observations reveal that global nighttime lighting is steadily rising, though the trend varies widely by region, with some areas brightening rapidly while others dim. An analysis of data from the VIIRS Day/Night Band satellite...

Popular Science

This time of year, new flowers and animals are everywhere. Baby birds and squirrels pop up in nests, while opossums and bunnies roam as the weather warms up. Not exactly known for their speed, turtles are also waking up from brumation—aka...

Quanta Magazine

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some of the world’s best high school...

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Wired Science

The viral infection leaves millions with chronic pain, increased stroke risk, and lifelong nerve damage—yet vaccination rates remain dangerously low.

SciTech Daily

Efforts to cool the planet may do more than lower temperatures, they could fundamentally reshape Earth’s climate systems. As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, more policymakers, scientists, and environmental advocates are...

PsyPost

An analysis of National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data showed that individuals with opioid use disorder have 1.88 to 4.17 times greater odds of having suicidal thoughts compared to individuals without the disorder. Their odds...

The Guardian

Participants reported enjoying the human connection regardless of whether they thought the topic was dull The human aversion to dull experiences was nailed by the author Paulo Coelho when he declared: “I can stand defeats, pain, anger. But...

MIT Technology Review

If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whiplash. AI is a gold rush. AI is a bubble. AI is taking your job. AI can’t even read a clock. The 2026 AI Index from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial...

Chemistry World

Reaction makes use of specially designed metal oxide–ionic liquid catalyst

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NASA Breaking News

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts...

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Installing wheels on a tortoise might seem like a cruel joke—but a veterinary practice in the Philippines recently did so to help out an Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) with troubled hind legs.  As the name suggests,...

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. You have no choice in reading this article—maybe How do humans make decisions? The question has been...

The Guardian

We send the voice of the dead across space as an act of continuity and care, while on Earth we tally the bodies. Which do we choose to become? Four people are sleeping 19,000 miles from the moon when the voice of Apollo 13’s commander...

The Guardian

Experts say natural kratom may offer benefits and blame synthetic derivatives for surge in poisonings noted by CDC A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report shows that kratom poisonings have soared in the US, but...

PsyPost

A recent study published in Personality and Individual Differences provides evidence that public perceptions of lawyers’ personalities have shifted significantly over the past 120 years. By analyzing millions of books, researchers found...

Scientific American

Scientists thought glassy substances had to be either moldable or impact-resistant—but compleximers are both

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Researchers have identified a promising new strategy to treat autoimmune diseases by targeting a specific molecular interaction within immune cells. Scripps Research scientists have created a new group of drug compounds that reduce harmful...

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A brief sauna session may quietly mobilize the immune system. A sauna session may do more than raise your heart rate and body temperature. A new study from Finland found that it also briefly increases the number of white blood cells moving...

Ars Technica

I’ve been teaching college Earth science courses as a part-time faculty member for a long time now, all while juggling other jobs. I started because it was enjoyable; no one gets into this line of work for the famously poor pay or complete...

Scientific American

Artemis II’s safe return from lunar orbit sparks a debate over the costs, climate effects and long‑term value of going back to the moon

Scientific American

A burgeoning field is launching its first clinical trial to find out whether dialing back cell development can safely refresh aged tissues and organs

MIT Technology Review

Grizzly bears have made such a comeback across eastern Montana that in 2017, the state hired its first-ever prairie-based grizzly manager: wildlife biologist Wesley Sarmento.  For some seven years, Sarmento worked to keep both the...

MIT Technology Review

Uri Maoz loved doing his human research, back when he was getting his PhD. He was studying a very specific topic in computational neuroscience: how the brain instructs our arms to move and how our gray matter in turn perceives that...

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Researchers have identified a surprising metabolic effect of a widely used diabetes drug in men undergoing prostate cancer treatment. A new study suggests that metformin, a commonly prescribed drug for diabetes, may reproduce a key...

PsyPost

A new study published in Addictive Behaviors suggests that struggling to control your social media habits takes a toll on your mental health by disrupting how well you sleep. The research provides evidence that the way screen time...

NPR Science

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war." (Image credit: Aaron Sandel)

The Guardian

PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for them A new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently introduced by the NHS has...

Yale Environment 360

As oceans warm and whale prey becomes increasingly scarce, gray whales have begun venturing into San Francisco Bay in search of food. But nearly one in five gray whales who enter the bay die there, many of them killed by passing boats, new...

The Guardian

A trio of tricky teasers Tanya Khovanova is a luminary of the recreational mathematics scene. She is one of its foremost bloggers and also runs Number Gossip, a site where you can sumbit a number and she “will tell you everything you want...

The Guardian

The new moon will be particularly beautiful – at just 2.6 days old, only about 7.5% of its visible surface will be illuminated The brilliant beacon of planet Venus is now unmistakeable in the evening sky, appearing to the naked eye well...

Science News

Climate change could be forcing gray whales to seek food in San Francisco Bay, where vessel strikes may be driving rising deaths.