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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.

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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 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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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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.

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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....

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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

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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...

Science Focus

Scientists have finally mapped the nerves of the clitoris, decades after mapping the nerves of the penis, in a new study that has yet to be peer reviewed. Researchers at Amsterdam University, the Netherlands, used specialised X-ray imaging...

Scientific American

As Pokémon turns 30, we take a look at how the beloved Japanese kids’ franchise was inspired by—and has shaped—real-world science

The Guardian

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans...

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New research published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy suggests that how a romantic relationship ends plays a role in the subsequent emotional well-being of both partners. Specifically, the study indicates that providing a...

SciTech Daily

Scientists are turning to AI and speech analysis to uncover early signs of Alzheimer’s in ways traditional methods may miss. More than 7 million Americans age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is expected to...

MIT Technology Review

For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-­edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation...

Universe Today

Thirty four years ago, a group of Cornell scientists looked at a remote Chilean mountaintop and imagined what might be built there one day. That day has arrived. The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope has just opened its eyes on the...

Universe Today

The Sun is the most studied star in the universe, yet some of its most violent behaviour remains stubbornly out of reach. Solar flares, explosive eruptions that can disrupt satellites, knock out power grids and bathe astronauts in...

The Guardian

Researchers identify wrecks at the bottom of the sea from as far back as fifth century BC, from Europe and beyond Spanish archaeologists exploring the bay that curves between the southern port of Algeciras and the Rock of Gibraltar have...

The Guardian

In eastern Brazil, coleocephalocereus goebelianus towers above surrounding plants, making its beacon even clearer Some flowers lure bats into pollinating them by stinking like fermenting fruit, cabbage, garlic and even urine. But one...

MIT Technology Review

The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing,...

Yale Environment 360

The Israeli campaign in Southern Lebanon has devastated orchards and fields. Lebanese officials estimate that 22 percent of the country's farmland has been damaged in the course of the war. Read more on E360 →