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Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker is one of the art world’s most recognizable images. The monumental depiction of a man hunched forward, right hand resting against his chin, is synonymous with humanity’s capacity for deep contemplation, abstract...

Universe Today

Several years ago, an automated sky survey spotted a distant supermassive black hole that tore apart a star. The star that got too close, and the resulting tidal disruption event released a lot of energy. But the SMBH is exhibiting a...

Scientific American

Four worlds around a small, dim star are challenging theories of planet formation

Scientific American

The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean

Scientific American

An intrepid team of scientists has created ‘smart underwear’ to measure human flatulence in a bid to better understand our farts

Scientific American

Pachyderm whiskers are more flexible at the tip than the base, allowing elephants to complete delicate tasks with their incredibly strong trunks

Scientific American

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen

Nautilus

Ever wonder what goes on in the mind of a honeybee?  Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . According to new research published yesterday in Science Advances by neuroscientists Brian Smith of...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

The activity of certain neurons may influence our endurance for exercise, and these could be targeted to help us run faster for longer

Ars Technica

Very few people alive today have seen the Appalachian forests as they existed a century ago. Even as state and national parks preserved ever more of the ecosystem, fungal pathogens from Asia nearly wiped out one of the dominant species of...

Ars Technica

An elephant's trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even delicate objects like peanuts or a tortilla chip. That's because the trunk is highly...

Science News

A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.

PsyPost

New research suggests that the path to alcohol dependence may differ depending on when the condition begins. A study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence identifies distinct roles for genetic variations and childhood experiences in the...

The Guardian

Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say The Yangtze River in China, which has been in ecological decline for 70 years, is showing signs of recovery thanks to...

NPR Science

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on itself and formed a black hole.

Popular Science

An elephant’s trunk is a wonder of evolution. Gentle, yet dextrous, it can pick up solid items, help them communicate, and be a helpful showering tool. Inside, 1,000 whiskers give the large animals a very strong sense of touch to...

NASA Breaking News

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A NASA crew member practices using lunar tools to collect geology samples at NASA’s Johnson Space Center during an elevated suit pressure test where teams...

SciTech Daily

A tiny blue galaxy packed with doomed giant stars hints at a recent, mysterious cosmic collision. The sparkling blue object featured as this ESA Hubble Picture of the Week is a compact dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). Much...

Nautilus

Fossil hunter Barnum Brown is remembered today as “Father of the Dinosaurs,” or, more curtly, “Mr. Bones.” Brown is best known for his discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex in 1902, but that’s just one feat in his paleontology career that took...

The Guardian

Physics research drives technological innovation, from medical imaging to data processing, write Dr Phil Bull and Prof Chris Clarkson; plus letters from Tim Gershon and Vincenzo Vagnoni, and Prof Paul Howarth Your article (UK ‘could lose...

PsyPost

A study in Sexual and Relationship Therapy found that men are more open to casual sex and infidelity than women. The research also highlights a strong link between relationship dissatisfaction, the desire for uncommitted sex, and the...

Science News

A lung cancer trial bolsters a long-held idea that treatment timing matters, showing a simple shift could help immunotherapy work better and extend lives.

SciTech Daily

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of detectable circumbinary planets. Among the...

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Scientists say an ultra-powerful neutrino once thought impossible may be explained by an exotic black hole model involving a so-called “dark charge.” In 2023, a neutrino slammed into Earth carrying more energy than any particle ever...

Popular Science

In 1970, a single record would change history. It wasn’t the latest album from The Who or Rolling Stones, but the musical stylings of a pod of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Songs of the Humpback Whale would go multi-platinum,...

Science Focus

Climate change may be giving frogs a helping hand in the language of love, a new study has found.  Researchers from University of California, Davis, have discovered that temperature plays a key role in shaping the sound and quality of...

Scientific American

The Trump administration is expected to rescind the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks

Scientific American

A scandal involving allegedly enlarged ski suits ahead of this year’s Winter Olympics has highlighted the intriguing physics behind ski jumps

Scientific American

From Schenectady, N.Y., to the University of Cambridge, Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance impressed the world’s leading physicists

NASA Breaking News

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. This structure of gas and dust was created by a dying, Sun-like star. These newest observations were taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. NASA, ESA, Bruce...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to their neighbours, boosting the effect

SciTech Daily

A new CRISPR-powered light sensor can detect the faintest whispers of cancer in a single drop of blood. Scientists have created an advanced light-based sensor capable of identifying extremely small amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood....

Nautilus

Before the rise of the Inca Empire, the Chichan Kingdom thrived for centuries on the southwest coast of Peru. At its height, the kingdom was home to an estimated 100,000 people with a rich culture and capital city, all made possible by...

Universe Today

Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination between instruments. The teams that run the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the upcoming Atmospheric...

Science News

A student created a low-cost baby carrier that filters sunlight to safely treat jaundice where electricity and equipment are scarce.

PsyPost

A study published in the journal Psychopharmacology has found that the increase in motivation people experience from methamphetamine is separate from the drug’s ability to produce a euphoric high. The findings suggest that these two common...

Chemistry World

Approach offers greener route to amide-containing drugs via aldehydes

SciTech Daily

A monthly infusion may one day replace daily immunosuppressant pills for kidney transplant patients. A kidney transplant can be life-changing, but it usually comes with a lifelong tradeoff: daily immunosuppressant pills that keep the...

Nautilus

If you want to spot lemurs in Madagascar, try an area where strawberry guava trees are fruiting. In particular, consider the mountainous rainforests of Ranomafana National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, where lemurs love to feast on...

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. AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse. Just as software...

SciTech Daily

Scientists have mapped how genetics and life experiences leave lasting epigenetic marks on immune cells. The discovery helps explain why people respond so differently to the same infections and could lead to more personalized treatments....

SciTech Daily

A massive analysis of randomized trials suggests that most side effects listed on statin labels may not be caused by the drugs at all. Cardiovascular disease kills about 20 million people worldwide and accounts for roughly a quarter of all...

PsyPost

Most adults in the United States experience the intense rush of passionate love only about twice throughout their lives, according to a recent large-scale survey. The study, published in the journal Interpersona, suggests that while this...

Universe Today

DOI: arXiv:2602.04840 | arXiv:2602.04840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE) is a balloon-borne mission dedicated to measuring spectroscopic phase curves of hot Jupiter-type exoplanets. Phase...

Smithsonian Magazine

Warming temperatures are wreaking havoc at elevation, upending the Winter Olympics and the tourism industry and imperiling communities

Scientific American

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words

SciTech Daily

AI-powered gene maps reveal the hidden control centers driving Alzheimer’s disease — and point to new hope for treatment. A research team led by Min Zhang and Dabao Zhang at the University of California, Irvine’s Joe C. Wen School of...

MIT Technology Review

EVs are getting cheaper and more common all over the world. But the technology still faces major challenges in some markets, including many countries in Africa. Some regions across the continent still have limited grid and charging...

MIT Technology Review

Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file uploaded to VirusTotal, a site cybersecurity researchers like him use to analyze submissions for...

New Yorker Science

In New York, a rat czar and new methods have brought down complaints. We may even be ready to appreciate the creatures.