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A complex web of interrelated factors make Earth a life-supporting planet, and some of those factors are chemical. New research shows how oxygen abundance regulates the availability of the important chemicals phosphorous and nitrogen on...

Nautilus

Have you ever wondered how an elephant can pick up something as delicate as a peanut with its massive, thick-skinned trunk? It seems a bit like trying to scoop up a single pebble with a snow shovel. Yet, elephants manage to “go from...

Nautilus

The largest snakes in the world, pythons, are found in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, Australia, and even Florida (albeit as an invasive species). Yet, despite being surrounded by countries where pythons thrive, the island nation...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades

SciTech Daily

Ancient bones from France reveal that Neolithic wars may have ended in ritualized executions and trophy-taking. The evidence suggests violence was staged to display dominance and unite communities. A new study in Science Advances is...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

The psychedelic DMT has been linked to improved mental health outcomes before, but now, scientists have shown it reduces depression symptoms more than a placebo when given alongside therapeutic support

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn more about lunar time zones and future NASA and ESA missions, which are working to create a safer environment for astronauts. 

PsyPost

Young adults who are happier in their romantic relationships are more likely to have positive views about marriage—and a flexible mindset that considers different perspectives may help explain why. This new research was published in BMC...

Nautilus

They may not know it, but the animals in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire are under constant surveillance. For decades, researchers from the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) and the Taï Chimpanzee Project have monitored the...

The Guardian

Barack Obama caused frenzy after saying aliens were real on a podcast - and was forced to clarify he had not seen any evidence of them in a statement posted to Instagram over the weekend. There is a long-running conspiracy theory claiming...

Ars Technica

Heating accounts for nearly half of the global energy demand, and two-thirds of that is met by burning fossil fuels like natural gas, oil, and coal. Solar energy is a possible alternative, but while we have become reasonably good at...

PsyPost

A study of mice fed a high-fat/high-fructose diet (designed to induce obesity) found that 12 weeks of treatment with low-dose psilocybin reduced weight gain, symptoms of fatty liver, hyperglycemia, and insulin resistance. It did not...

Nautilus

Pulsars are highly magnetized, rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit bursts of electromagnetic radiation from their poles at regular intervals as they spin. In a way, they’re kind of like cosmic lighthouses, blinking in space. Now,...

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar system. Learn more about the possibility of asteroid mining.

Universe Today

The Moon has a busy next two weeks ahead of it. Fresh off of Tuesday’s annular solar eclipse, the Moon begins an evening tour of the planets in the last half of February 2026. The waxing Moon actually slides by every planet except Mars...

The Guardian

Researchers find DMT – used in shamanic rituals – in tandem with psychotherapy has significant effect People with major depressive disorder can see a rapid and lasting improvement after a single dose of the psychedelic drug...

Science Focus

Picture the Arctic and you probably think of a vast, empty frozen wonderland. You probably don’t think about the noise.  But according to a new study published in the journal npj Acoustics, the underwater soundscape is already much...

SciTech Daily

A new scientific investigation suggests that known non-biological processes may not be enough to explain the amount of organic material discovered in a Martian rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Organic compounds are...

SciTech Daily

Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new image of the Egg Nebula, revealing a complex pattern of brightness...

Chemistry World

Legal challenges predicted as US environmental protection agency rescinds long-standing ‘endangerment finding’

Nautilus

Many people who have an older friend or relative are familiar with dementia. With nearly half of Americans older than 55 developing some form of dementia, according to the National Institutes of Health, it’s becoming a salient feature of...

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New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection

MIT Technology Review

When work went remote, the sound of business changed. What began as a scramble to make home offices functional has evolved into a revolution in how people hear and are heard. From education to enterprises, companies across industries have...

Popular Science

With the freezing temperatures that have recently pummeled parts of the northeastern United States, the idea of curling up for the winter and snoozing until spring sounds very appealing. There’s just one problem for our species—well,...

Popular Science

The Society of Photographers has announced the winners of its prestigious 2025 Photographer of the Year awards. Photographer Therese Asplund earned the top honors of Photographer of the Year for an image (seen below) of young birds on...

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn more about modern pharmaceuticals and how sometimes they are able to treat more than one type of illness. 

SciTech Daily

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead quietly collapsed into a black hole. Astronomers have directly observed a dying massive star that did not explode in...

PsyPost

Psychologists and the public alike have frequently debated whether exceptional cognitive ability comes with a cost to emotional well-being. A new analysis suggests that we may not be able to answer this question because the standard tools...

Chemistry World

RNA strand, made of just 45 nucleotides, performs two key reactions required for self-replication

The Guardian

A measles outbreak among unvaccinated children in London comes amid a global increase in infections A measles outbreak in London is affecting unvaccinated children under the age of 10, and comes amid an increase in infections globally. The...

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Scientific American

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away

Scientific American

Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day

Nautilus

At the end of January, a new social media network for AI agents called Moltbook went live, launched by the CEO of Octane AI, Matt Schlicht. Immediately, things got weird. Some of the agents started a religion called Crustafarianism, aka...

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. Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake. In April 2024, a...

The Guardian

Moon was a distraction and Mars the goal for billionaire SpaceX chief – could Trump have influenced his U-turn? Barely a year ago, the moon was “a distraction” to Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of SpaceX then fixated on his...

PsyPost

A new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health indicates that while most American teenagers do not engage in sexting, those who do face a high probability of negative consequences. The findings suggest that nearly half of...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is possible to pull off this trick in the strange realm of quantum mechanics

Universe Today

Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can’t see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe - primarily how it is causing the expansion of the universe to...

SciTech Daily

A newly discovered link between pancreatic cancer and neural signaling reveals a promising drug target that slows tumor growth by blocking glutamate uptake. Pancreatic cancer is among the most deadly cancers, and scientists are still...

SciTech Daily

Researchers have discovered that a little-known by-product of sunflower oil production could dramatically improve the nutritional value of bread. As more people look for healthier options beyond traditional wheat products, researchers are...

MIT Technology Review

The threats started in spring.  In April 2024, a mysterious someone using the online handles “Waifu” and “Judische” began posting death threats on Telegram and Discord channels aimed at a cybersecurity researcher named Allison...

MIT Technology Review

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were spending to solve them. Antimicrobial...

Scientific American

We take a look at President Trump’s decision to reject a landmark climate finding, the cause of an unusual winter in the U.S. and the physics behind a bizarre ski jumping scandal

Scientific American

According to the Chinese zodiac, 2026 is the Year of the Horse—so saddle up for some equine science

SciTech Daily

A long-running study following thousands of older adults suggests that a relatively brief period of targeted brain training may have effects that last decades. Starting in the late 1990s, close to 3,000 older adults enrolled in a research...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark energy. Columnist Leah Crane explores what observations tell us about how much universe is out there and whether...