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Scientists have been debating for decades whether Mars once held a vast ocean covering a large part of its northern face. To prove the idea, they’ve been looking for a “bathtub ring” - a distinct, level shoreline that shows where water...

SciTech Daily

The most precise measurement yet shows the Universe is expanding faster than expected, deepening the Hubble tension. The result hints that something may be missing from our current understanding of the cosmos. An international team of...

Scientific American

The environmental crises of the past often seem to disappear—have problems like acid rain and smog been solved?

Scientific American

This Earth Day three environmental experts share stories about times when environmental action succeeded in saving the planet—and explain why this can be done again

Wired Science

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

PsyPost

A recent study published in Evolutionary Psychological Science suggests that intelligence in young men is positively linked to physical traits like grip strength and a masculine body shape. At the same time, the research provides evidence...

MIT Technology Review

Isegye Idol If you thought K-pop was weird, virtual idols—humans who perform as anime-style digital characters via motion capture—will blow your mind. My favorite is a girl group called Isegye Idol, created by Woowakgood, a Korean VTuber...

MIT Technology Review

“Pull over!” I order my brother one sunny February afternoon. Our target is in sight: a gaggle of Canada geese, pecking at grass near the dog park. As I approach, tiptoeing over their grayish-white poop, I notice that one bird wears a...

MIT Technology Review

Los Angeles deserves its reputation as the quintessential car city—the rhythms of its 2,200 square miles are dictated by wide boulevards and concrete arcs of freeways. But it once had a world-class rail transit system, and for the last...

MIT Technology Review

When people talk about “nature,” they’re generally talking about things that aren’t made by human beings. Rocks. Reefs. Red wolves. But while there is plenty of God’s creation to go around, it is hard to think of anything on Earth that...

Scientific American

Gibraltar’s macaques have been observed engaging in geophagy, the consumption of soil and clay, in an apparent attempt to quell their nausea from eating fatty and salty foods offered by tourists

Chemistry World

Emissions of certain ozone-depleting chemicals could delay the ozone layer’s recovery by six to 11 years

The Guardian

Macaques have learned to eat soil to avert gut irritation caused by salty and sugary snacks, researchers believe Troops of monkeys living on the Rock of Gibraltar have learned to eat soil in what scientists believe is an effort to settle...

SciTech Daily

A large-scale study tracking hundreds of thousands of individuals reveals that the timing of weight gain may play a critical role in long-term health. When people gain weight during life can shape their health decades later. In a study of...

The Guardian

What is behind the surge in ufology? The recent spike can be traced to the top of the US government, which inspired me to start investigating ... I never gave much thought to aliens beyond Star Wars. I put extraterrestrials and their...

The Guardian

Analysis of video footage reveals how wave changed as it travelled over mud-rich rice paddies, exerting more force It is just over 15 years since the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, killing almost 20,000 people and...

SciTech Daily

A new model reveals that two very different laser pulse behaviors are fundamentally connected. An international team of researchers, including a scientist from Aston University, has uncovered how “breather” laser pulses function. They...

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A new study reveals an unexpected pathway in catalytic systems, where oxygen does not remain confined to surfaces but can move through deeper regions of the material. A team of scientists in China has uncovered a hidden pathway inside...

NASA Breaking News

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Universe Today

The search for life beyond Earth has traditionally focused on exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars, which is a G-type star. However, low-mass stars, which are designated as K-type and M-type stars, have rapidly become a target for...

SciTech Daily

A simple bundle of staples reveals an unusual physical behavior, one that shifts between rigidity and fluidity depending on how it is handled. A dense clump of office staples can act in an unexpected way. Pull on it, and the tangled metal...

NASA Breaking News

A view of Earth taken by an Artemis II astronaut from one of the Orion spacecraft’s windows after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026. The image features two auroras (top right and bottom left), and zodiacal light...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

A final-stage trial has started of an mRNA vaccine against the bird flu strain infecting many animals – and occasionally people – worldwide

NASA Breaking News

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Science News

North American sweat bees change color depending on the surrounding humidity. It might be a more widespread phenomenon among insects.

Popular Science

Take this as your signal to go play with your dog. A new study published today in the journal Royal Society Open Science shows that extra playtime strengthens the emotional bond between owner and dog.  While it may seem obvious, play...

NASA Breaking News

Credit: NASA The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 23, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Ambassador Dina Kawar of the...

SciTech Daily

New research provides compelling evidence that Barrett’s esophagus underlies all cases of esophageal adenocarcinoma, even when it is no longer visible. Scientists have uncovered the clearest evidence yet that Barrett’s esophagus is the...

SciTech Daily

Overlooked plant compounds may quietly hold new clues for treating some of the most challenging forms of pain. Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences say compounds from Cannabis sativa may help ease two difficult types of...

MIT Technology Review

Heat generated by electronic devices is usually a problem, but a team led by Giuseppe Romano, a research scientist at MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, has found a way to use it for data processing that doesn’t rely on...

MIT Technology Review

Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared Prosperity Edited by Elisabeth B. Reynolds, professor of the practice of urban studies and planning and former executive director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future ...

MIT Technology Review

A long stretch of humid heat followed by a powerful thunderstorm is a familiar weather pattern in the tropics, but it’s also becoming more common in midlatitude regions such as the US Midwest. A recent study by two MIT scientists...

MIT Technology Review

Brenda Schafer Kennedy, SM ’93, knows that sometimes the best medicine comes with four legs and fur. Kennedy is the chief veterinary and research officer for Canine Companions, a California-based, nationwide organization that provides...

MIT Technology Review

At MIT, AI has become so pervasive that you can almost find your way into it without meaning to. Take Sili Deng, an associate professor of mechanical engineering. Deng says she still doesn’t know whether she’d have gone all in on...

MIT Technology Review

If you’ve been to an eye doctor and had an image taken of the inside of your eye, chances are good it was done with optical coherence tomography (OCT)—a technology invented by clinician-scientist David Huang ’85, SM ’89, PhD ’93, and now...

MIT Technology Review

Single-use plastics are a persistent source of environmental pollution, and the need to house a growing global population puts increasing pressure on resources such as timber. MIT engineers have an idea that could make a dent in both...

MIT Technology Review

Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry professor Laura Kiessling has found that one such protein, intelectin-2, both helps fortify the mucosal...

MIT Technology Review

Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great Oxidation Event set the evolutionary course for oxygen-breathing life on Earth. But MIT geobiologists and colleagues have found evidence that some early forms of life...

MIT Technology Review

How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neurosurgery. But in a recent paper, MIT philosopher Matthias Michel, Lincoln Lab researcher Daniel...

Science Blog

Two patients walk into an oncology clinic with what looks, on paper, like the same melanoma. Same stage, same tumor size, comparable bloodwork. One lives for a decade. The other is gone in eighteen months. For as long as oncologists have...

Science Blog

Two cups. That was all Curiosity had. Two sealed metal cups holding a strong alkaline fluid called TMAH, ferried across 225 million kilometres of space precisely for a moment like this one, and if the team on the ground picked the wrong...

Science Blog

Deep in the hippocampus, a molecular miscommunication is strangling memory. Long before a person with Alzheimer’s disease forgets a name or loses track of a familiar face, their neurons are already caught in a kind of biochemical traffic...

Science Blog

  Set a crab down on a beach and watch what happens. It doesn’t hesitate, doesn’t pivot awkwardly like a dog trying to reverse. It simply goes, sliding sideways as if the lateral direction were always the natural one, as if moving...

NASA Breaking News

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New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Most of Titan’s surface is oddly flat and smooth, and it may be because it is coated by as much as a metre of fluffy organic material that snowed down from the icy moon’s thick atmosphere

MIT Technology Review

AI companies frequently invoke the possibility of AI-enabled scientific discovery as a justification for their existence: If the technology eventually cures cancer and solves climate change, then all the carbon emissions and slop videos...

MIT Technology Review

Turns out not everyone wants to live in the future that AI companies are building. People from all walks of life are speaking out against rising electricity bills from data centers, disappearing jobs, chatbots’ impact on teen mental...

MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review

When ChatGPT launched as an experimental prototype in late 2022, OpenAI’s chatbot became an everyday everything app for hundreds of millions of people. LLMs like ChatGPT were the new future: The entire tech industry was consumed by the...

MIT Technology Review

When ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, it opened people’s eyes to how easily generative AI could churn out vast amounts of human-seeming text from simple prompts. This quickly caught the attention of criminals, who soon...