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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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  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...

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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

I was recently invited to join an app that would pay me cryptocurrency to film myself doing tasks like putting food into a bowl, microwaving it, and then taking it out. Another website suggested I try a new game in which I’d remotely...

MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review

AI systems have already gained impressive mastery over the digital world, but the physical world is still humanity’s domain. As it turns out, building an AI system that can compose a novel or code an app is far easier than developing one...

MIT Technology Review

When people say AI will speed up drug development or fear that it will bring about mass layoffs, what they have in mind—whether they know it or not—are AI agents. ChatGPT made large language models a mass consumer product. But to change...

MIT Technology Review

Silicon Valley AI companies follow a familiar playbook: Keep the secret sauce behind an API, and charge for every drop. China’s leading AI labs are playing a different game: They ship models as downloadable “open-weight” packages. This...

MIT Technology Review

For years, experts have warned that deepfakes—AI-generated videos, images, or audio recordings of people doing or saying things they haven’t actually done in real life—could be deployed in malicious ways.  These dangers are now here....

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...

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...

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An everyday medication may hold untapped potential against one of the most difficult-to-treat bacterial threats. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to outpace modern medicine, causing more than 2.8 million infections and over 35,000...

Universe Today

As we make our way through the latest solar maximum period, scholars and scientists are looking to similar events in the past to learn more about ancient bouts of solar activity. In particular, they want to know more about solar proton...

NPR Science

These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ceded the throne to her daughter, Arwen, without violence. (Image credit: Evgeniya Moskova/iStockphoto)

PsyPost

An experiment involving psychology students showed that stress made them more likely to choose less healthy but tastier food. Precommitment to choose healthy foods counteracted that effect. However, in all cases, study participants chose...

NASA Breaking News

Continuing NASA’s longtime support of American industry, the agency announced its selection of more than 30 companies to develop innovative technology through its  Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business...

NASA Breaking News

On March 21, 2026, NASA’s Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche took the stage at the Space House event at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, to outline NASA’s next giant leap in human spaceflight — from low...

Science Focus

Our ultra-social brains mean that human emotional expressions are a lot more communicable than most of us realise. Indeed, we can often find ourselves sharing the emotional state of the people around us without even realising. It’s a...

Science News

In her debut book, science writer Roxanne Khamsi offers a new view of mutations that’s not limited to birth and death.