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A recent study published in the journal Appetite suggests that infants who are breastfed may develop better self-control skills by the time they reach preschool. The findings provide evidence that the act of breastfeeding gives babies...

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Run an AI model across a human chromosome and what you get back looks like a seismograph readout: peaks and troughs, quiet stretches interrupted by jagged eruptions of ancient time. The quiet zones are where evolution swept through...

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There’s a mineral called bustamentite that almost nobody studies. It forms in flat hexagonal plates, grows readily in warm water, and turns up as an unwanted contaminant in perovskite solar cells. For decades it sat at the margins of...

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Six dollars and fifty cents. That is, give or take, the largest fine the federal government has ever levied on a Medicare Advantage insurer per patient enrolled. It happened once, in 2019. Most years the figure stays below three dollars....

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Somewhere in the gap between a person deciding where to live and a nation’s wealth clustering in a handful of cities, something gets lost. Economists model the aggregate; sociologists study the individual; neither, quite, manages to speak...

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The numbers came back wrong. Researchers at the University of New Mexico had been methodically working through preserved brain tissue, running the usual analyses on samples drawn from a cohort of donors spanning 2016 to 2024. What they...

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Somewhere in the naming of animals, science and theology have always made uneasy company. The Old Testament hands Adam his first job: go through every creature and give it a name. Taxonomy, in other words, is possibly the oldest human...

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One tenth of one percent. That is all it takes. Out of billions of parameters inside a large language model, only a tiny, specially chosen sliver, roughly 0.1%, carries the information that actually matters when the model needs to learn...

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During meiosis, the process by which sperm are made, chromosomes must sort themselves with extraordinary precision. Each mature sperm cell is supposed to carry exactly 23 chromosomes: one sex chromosome, either X or Y, and 22 others. When...

Chemistry World

Method allows for late-stage, stereoselective aminations to drug-like molecules

MIT Technology Review

Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, representative government. The telegraph...

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Doug Whitney has a genetic mutation that means he should have developed Alzheimer’s disease decades ago, but his long-term work in hot engine rooms may have protected him in a similar way to sauna therapy

The Guardian

The transition towards renewable energy received a boost last week when representatives from 57 countries met in Santa Marta, Colombia, for a world-first climate meeting aimed at bringing the fossil fuels era to an end. Madeleine Finlay...

The Guardian

Decades of advice on what to eat and what not to might have been missing one key ingredient, according to new research Reduce your calories. Eat more vegetables. Limit soft drinks and junk foods. For years, even decades, this has been the...

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Two quantum computers and two supercomputers teamed up to break the record on the biggest molecule yet to be simulated using quantum hardware

NASA Breaking News

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Learn more about Cave 338 and the artifacts researchers discovered inside of if, which indicate it was a valuable meeting spot for nearly 2,000 years. 

SciTech Daily

Astronomers have finally identified where the Milky Way’s star-making activity fades, uncovering a long-sought boundary in our galaxy. Determining how far the Milky Way extends has always been tricky because its disk does not end abruptly...

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A long-standing cosmic mystery is beginning to yield new clues as researchers uncover a strikingly consistent pattern in the behavior of high-energy particles traveling across the universe. More than 100 years after their discovery, cosmic...

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Curiosity just found molecules on Mars tied to the chemistry of life, hinting at a more habitable past. NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered a wide variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds often viewed as essential...

PsyPost

Older adults often experience a rise in depression as they near the end of their lives, a phenomenon known as terminal decline. A new study reveals that this worsening in mood accelerates roughly four years before death, with men...

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People with certain antagonistic personality traits frequently approach romantic partnerships with heightened levels of aggression, dominance, and a preference for unconventional sexual experiences. These same traits are connected to a...

Singularity Hub

AI has aced medical exams, but there’s a wide gap between tests and the real world. A new study suggests the divide is closing. Emergency doctors make high-stakes decisions in fast-paced, often chaotic situations. They have to figure out...

Universe Today

Our Moon is still guarding its secrets decades after the last of the Apollo missions lifted off the lunar surface. Lunar scientists still puzzle over just when and how a giant Earth impactor formed our Moon, completely altering our early...

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Learn how cranberry juice may be able to make antibiotics more effective at treating urinary tract infections.

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Learn how three people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic. Here’s what the virus does and why outbreaks at sea can escalate quickly.

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Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

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People with substance use disorder—whether addicted to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or nicotine—share a strikingly similar pattern of abnormal brain connections, particularly within the brain’s reward and self-control circuits, according to a...

SciTech Daily

A long-standing assumption about evolution is being challenged by new research showing that vastly different species can rely on the same genetic pathways to develop similar traits. Scientists have discovered that evolution has relied on...

NASA Breaking News

Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke, T.D., 3rd from left, signs the Artemis Accords during a ceremony with Chief of Staff in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs William Cappelletti, left,...

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Learn why cold symptoms feeling worse at night is actually a good sign that indicates your body is fighting off the sickness.

SciTech Daily

A new sound-based laser could measure gravity with unprecedented precision and reshape navigation technology. Since their introduction in the 1960s, lasers have fueled major advances in science and everyday technology, from supermarket...

NASA Breaking News

4 Min Read NASA Fosters Development of Lunar Resource-Seeking Technologies Earth sets at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the...

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A recent study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry provides evidence that many autistic children can learn to speak a second language without any social exposure to it. These findings suggest that autistic children...

Scientific American

Greenland sharks have hearts that can function normally for more than a century

Scientific American

Want to go to the moon? Travel vicariously through the more than 12,000 photos NASA just posted from the Artemis II mission

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A 500-kilometre-wide object in a similar orbit to Pluto challenges our assumptions about small bodies in the outer solar system

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It is appealing to think something as simple as honey could cure a cold or prevent hay fever, but is there evidence to back up honey’s health benefits? Columnist Alice Klein finds that it has legitimate medicinal uses, depending on the...

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A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words

SciTech Daily

A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously beyond computational reach. Quantum technologies, including quantum...

NASA Breaking News

Credit: NASA The Republic of Malta became the 65th signatory to the Artemis Accords on Monday during a ceremony in the town of Kalkara with NASA and U.S. Department of State officials present. “Today, it’s my pleasure to welcome the...

Popular Science

Tonight, there will be more birds in the sky than there are people in the United States. According to Cornell Lab’s BirdCast, an estimated 373 million winged migrators will continue their journey north during the early evening hours of May...

Scientific American

On Monday the Supreme Court paused a ruling by a federal appeals court that prevented health care providers from prescribing mifepristone by telemedicine, setting the stage for further action from the nation’s highest court

SciTech Daily

A new study links the universe’s expansion to quantum topology, suggesting that hidden mathematical structures may stabilize the cosmological constant in ways previously unrecognized. The cosmological constant is a term physicists use to...

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White Americans who regularly get their political news from Fox News show much higher levels of support for the Great Replacement Theory than those who do not watch the network. By tracking individual viewers over time, researchers found...

Science Focus

Of all the strange and wonderful animals that live in the deep sea, perhaps the most tantalising are the ones that are occasionally glimpsed by deep-submerged cameras, then swim off into the darkness before scientists can get a good look....

NASA Breaking News

Environmental testing of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander has been completed inside Thermal Vacuum Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Also known as Endurance, MK1 is an uncrewed cargo lander funded by...

NASA Breaking News

Students had the opportunity to practice their science communication skills during the poster session portion of the Findings from the Field Symposium, held in Portland Maine. On March 30, 2026, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute...

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. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in...

SciTech Daily

A newly discovered stegosaur skull from Spain is offering rare insight into the anatomy and evolution of one of Europe’s most iconic dinosaurs. A rare skull from Spain is giving scientists a clearer look at one of Europe’s most important...