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June 26, 2025
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June 26, 2025 — South Australia’s tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have tried a bold fix—move it. Three separate populations were shifted ...
June 26, 2025 — Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s worth of chipmunk and vole specimens from Chicago, researchers discovered subtle yet significant evolutionary changes in ...
June 26, 2025 — New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly around 50,000 years ago. Scientists discovered that before this successful migration, humans began using a much broader range ...
June 26, 2025 — Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law enforcement struggles to tell them apart, especially ...
June 26, 2025 — Farming didn t emerge in the Andes due to crisis or scarcity it was a savvy and resilient evolution. Ancient diets remained stable for millennia, blending wild and domesticated foods while cultural ...
June 26, 2025 — Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes from northern Taiwan and steering southeast toward Okinawa. A modern crew ...
June 25, 2025 — Caffeine appears to do more than perk you up—it activates AMPK, a key cellular fuel sensor that helps cells cope with stress and energy shortages. This could explain why coffee is linked to better health and longer ...
June 25, 2025 — The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it was a messy saga full of unexpected detours. Using new bone-mapping tech, researchers discovered that early mammal ...
June 25, 2025 — Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. ...
June 25, 2025 — Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn defenders into nurses or gardeners into leaf harvesters. ...
June 24, 2025 — Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist on distant planets orbiting volatile stars. The secret? A microscopic “sunscreen” layer that protects their vital ...
June 24, 2025 — Wildfires don’t just leave behind scorched earth—they leave a toxic legacy in Western rivers that can linger for nearly a decade. A sweeping new study analyzed over 100,000 water samples from more than 500 U.S. watersheds and revealed that ...
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June 24, 2025 — Major depressive disorder affects hundreds of millions worldwide, but a key to understanding its origins may lie in the brain’s immune system. New findings spotlight astrocytes—previously ...
June 24, 2025 — Over 300 million years ago, Earth experienced powerful bursts of carbon dioxide from natural sources—like massive volcanic eruptions—that ...
June 24, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered a stealthy tactic used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus: one of its proteins can leap from infected cells to healthy ones, ...
June 24, 2025 — Southern resident killer whales have been caught on drone video crafting kelp tools to groom one another—an unprecedented behavior among marine mammals. This suggests a deeper social and cultural ...
June 24, 2025 — Two Ice Age wolf pups once thought to be early dogs have been identified as wild wolves, thanks to detailed DNA and chemical analysis. Surprisingly, ...
June 24, 2025 — Exploration for deep-sea minerals in the Clarion Clipperton Zone threatens to disrupt an unexpectedly rich ecosystem of whales and dolphins. New studies have detected endangered species in the area ...
June 23, 2025 — A groundbreaking wireless implant promises real-time, personalized pain relief using AI and ultrasound power no batteries, no wires, and no opioids. Designed by USC and UCLA engineers, it reads brain ...
June 23, 2025 — What if your old chest scans—taken years ago for something unrelated—held a secret warning about your heart? A new AI tool called AI-CAC, ...
June 23, 2025 — DNA from a skull found at Newgrange once sparked theories of a royal incestuous elite in ancient Ireland, but new research reveals no signs of such a ...
June 23, 2025 — Ancient coral fossils from the remote Seychelles islands have unveiled a dramatic warning for our future—sea levels can rise in sudden, sharp bursts even when global temperatures stay ...
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June 26, 2025 — Swap steaks for spinach and you might watch the scale plummet. In a 16-week crossover study, overweight adults who ditched animal products for a low-fat vegan menu saw their bodies become less acidic ...
June 26, 2025 — Hot tubs don't just feel great, they may actually outperform saunas when it comes to health perks. A study found that soaking in hot water raises core body temperature more than dry or infrared ...
June 25, 2025 — Japanese researchers have found that vitamin C can thicken skin by switching on genes that boost skin cell growth, helping reverse age-related thinning. It works by reactivating DNA through a process ...
June 25, 2025 — Keeping sex on the schedule may be its own menopause medicine: among 900 women aged 40-79, those active in the last three months reported far less dryness, pain, and irritation, while orgasm and ...
June 25, 2025 — Chalmers engineers built a pulse-driven qubit amplifier that’s ten times more efficient, stays cool, and safeguards quantum states—key for bigger, better quantum ...
June 25, 2025 — Imagine printing your Martian home from dust, sunlight, and a bit of biology. A new synthetic lichen system uses fungi and bacteria to grow building materials directly from Martian soil, completely ...
June 25, 2025 — Two newly discovered viruses lurking in bats are dangerously similar to Nipah and Hendra, both of which have caused deadly outbreaks in humans. Found in fruit bats near villages, these viruses may ...
June 25, 2025 — A new AI tool, AAnet, has discovered five distinct cell types within tumors, offering a deeper look into cancer's inner diversity. This insight could transform how we treat cancer, enabling more ...
June 25, 2025 — A blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drug might be doing more than controlling blood sugar—it could also be protecting the brain. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found that people ...
June 25, 2025 — Washington University researchers found that raising a molecule called ApoM helps eye cells sweep away harmful cholesterol deposits linked to age-related macular degeneration, potentially preventing ...
June 23, 2025 — Recycled plastic pellets can release a hidden mix of over 80 chemicals into water, disrupting hormones and fat metabolism in zebrafish larvae. Researchers warn that unknown and toxic additives make ...
June 23, 2025 — Researchers in Sweden have developed a powerful new material that dramatically boosts the ability to create hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight, making the process eight times more effective than ...
June 23, 2025 — Despite widespread fears, early research suggests AI might actually be improving some aspects of work life. A major new study examining 20 years of worker data in Germany found no signs that AI ...
June 23, 2025 — In a remarkable twist of science, researchers have transformed a fungus long associated with death into a potential weapon against cancer. Found in tombs like that of King Tut, Aspergillus flavus was ...
June 22, 2025 — A simple blood test could reveal which early Alzheimer’s patients are most at risk for rapid decline. Researchers found that people with high insulin resistance—measured by the TyG index—were ...
June 22, 2025 — Colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, is losing its power due to rising resistance—and the culprits might be hiding in your seafood dinner. A University of Georgia research team discovered ...
June 21, 2025 — Scientists in Tokyo have developed a groundbreaking, label-free method to identify aging human cells using electric fields. This new technique avoids the downsides of chemical tagging, which can ...
June 22, 2025 — Scientists are peering into the universe's mysterious Cosmic Dawn using the faint whispers of hydrogen radio waves emitted over 13 billion years ago. These signals, particularly the elusive ...
June 22, 2025 — Two German physicists have reimagined how to create powerful and uniform magnetic fields using compact permanent magnets. By overcoming the limitations of the well-known Halbach array, which works ...
June 22, 2025 — AI is revolutionizing the job landscape, prompting nations worldwide to prepare their workforces for dramatic changes. A University of Georgia study evaluated 50 countries’ national AI strategies ...
Thursday, June 26, 2025
- Acid-Busting Diet Triggers 13-Pound Weight Loss in Just 16 Weeks
- Hot Tubs Outperform Saunas in Boosting Blood Flow and Immune Power
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
- Vitamin C Flips Your Skin’s “youth Genes,” Reversing Age-Related Thinning
- The Pleasure Prescription: Why More Sex Means Less Menopause Pain
- Quantum Computers Just Got an Upgrade – and It’s 10× More Efficient
- Martian Dust to Dream Homes: How Microbes Can Build on the Red Planet
- New Viruses Discovered in Bats in China Could Be the Next Pandemic Threat
- Inside the Tumor: AI Cracks Five Hidden Cell Types to Stop Cancer’s Comeback
- 1. 7 Million Patients Reveal Stunning Link Between Semaglutide and Lower Dementia Risk
- The Molecule That Might Save Your Sight—and Your Heart
Monday, June 23, 2025
- Recycled Plastic Is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet
- This Triple-Layer Sunlight Catalyst Supercharges Green Hydrogen by 800%
- Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Hurting workers—It Might Be Helping
- From Cursed Tomb Fungus to Cancer Cure: Aspergillus Flavus Yields Potent New Drug
Sunday, June 22, 2025
- The Common Blood Test That Predicts How Fast Alzheimer’s Hits
- Superbugs in Your Shrimp: Deadly Colistin-Resistance Genes Ride on Imported Seafood
Saturday, June 21, 2025
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- What the Universe Tried to Hide: The 21-Centimeter Signal Explained
- Breakthrough Magnet Design Could Transform MRI and Magnetic Levitation
- Half of Today’s Jobs Could vanish—Here’s How Smart Countries Are Future-Proofing Workers
Friday, June 20, 2025
- Scientists Create Living Building Material That Captures CO₂ from the Air
- Gravity, Flipped: How Tiny, Porous Particles Sink Faster in Ocean Snowstorms
- The Atlantic's Chilling Secret: A Century of Data Reveals Ocean Current Collapse
- Diabetes Drug Cuts Migraines in Half by Targeting Brain Pressure
Thursday, June 26, 2025
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- Iron Overload: The Hidden Culprit Behind Early Alzheimer’s in Down Syndrome
- Photon-Powered Alchemy: How Light Is Rewriting Fossil Fuel Chemistry
- Frozen in Time: Transparent Worms Keep Genes in Sync for 20 Million Years
- Scientists Create ‘universal Translator’ for Quantum Tech
- Cold Sore Virus Hijacks Human Genome in 3D--and Scientists Found Its Weak Spot
- Hidden Carbon Giants: Satellite Data Reveals a 40-Year Arctic Peatland Surge
- Flash Floods in the Alps: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Summer Storms
- Fitness Trackers Are Failing Millions — This Fix Could Change Everything
- Self-Esteem Skyrockets 131% After Weight-Loss Surgery, Study Reveals
Thursday, June 19, 2025
- How Life Endured the Snowball Earth: Evidence from Antarctic Meltwater Ponds
- Thinking AI Models Emit 50x More CO2—and Often for Nothing
- Microscopic Heist: How Lung Bacteria Forge Weapons to Steal Iron and Survive
- Massive Thread of Hot Gas Found Linking Galaxies — and It’s 10 Times the Mass of the Milky Way
- Invisible Quantum Waves Forge Shape-Shifting Super-Materials in Real Time
- AI at Light Speed: How Glass Fibers Could Replace Silicon Brains
- One Shot to Stop HIV: MIT's Bold Vaccine Breakthrough
- The AI That Writes Climate-Friendly Cement Recipes in Seconds
- How Can We Make Fewer Mistakes? US Navy Invests $860k in Placekeeping
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
- You Hear the Beep, but Can’t Find the Car: The Hidden Flaw in Electric Vehicle Safety
- Defying Darwin: Scientists Discover Worms Rewrote Their DNA to Survive on Land
- Winter Sea Ice Supercharges Southern Ocean’s CO2 Uptake
- A Thousand Colors, One Galaxy: Astronomers Reveal a Cosmic Masterpiece
- AI Sniffs Earwax and Detects Parkinson’s With 94% Accuracy
Friday, June 20, 2025
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
- This Tiny Patch Could Replace Biopsies—and Revolutionize How We Detect Cancer
- These Beetles Can See a Color Most Insects Can’t
- Monster Salamander With Powerful Jaws Unearthed in Tennessee Fossil Find
- Saving Energy: New Method Guides Magnetism Without Magnets
- Cozmic’s Milky Way Clones Are Cracking the Universe’s Dark Code
- Rainbow Reefs Revealed: The Secret 112-Million-Year Saga of Glowing Fish
- Black Coffee, Longer Life: The Science Behind Your Morning Perk
Monday, June 16, 2025
- Cluck Once, and the River Shakes: Inside the Amazon’s Giant Snake Saga
- Only 13 % Know: The One-Minute Self-Exam That Could Save Young Men’s Lives
- Your Brain Has a Hidden Beat — and Smarter Minds Sync to It
- Single Psilocybin Trip Delivers Two Years of Depression Relief for Cancer Patients
- The Invisible Killer: PM 1 Pollution Uncovered Across America
- 600-Million-Year-Old Body Blueprint Found in Sea Anemones
- Scientists Discover Llama Antibodies That Shut Down COVID — and Its Future Variants
Saturday, June 14, 2025
- Impossible Signal from Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice Baffles Physicists
- Fruit-Eating Mastodons? Ancient Fossils Confirm a Long-Lost Ecological Alliance
- Passive Cooling Breakthrough Could Slash Data Center Energy Use
- Why Giant Planets Might Form Faster Than We Thought
- Space-Laser AI Maps Forest Carbon in Minutes—a Game-Changer for Climate Science
- Africa's Pangolin Crisis: The Delicacy That's Driving a Species to the Brink
- Scientists Just Solved a 40-Year-Old Mystery About Quasicrystals
Sunday, June 22, 2025
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Saturday, June 14, 2025
- Scientists Reveal the Hidden Trigger Behind Massive Floods
- Koalas on the Brink: Precision DNA Test Offers a Lifeline to Australia’s Icons
Friday, June 13, 2025
- Toxic Tides: Centuries-Old Mercury Is Flooding the Arctic Food Chain
- Invisible ID: How a Single Breath Could Reveal Your Health—and Your Identity
- Running Rewires Your Brain Cells—igniting Memory-Saving Genes Against Alzheimer’s
- Guest Molecules Ride Perfect Waves in Dna droplets—A Breakthrough for Synthetic Biology
Sunday, June 22, 2025
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- Robots That Feel Heat, Pain, and Pressure? This New “skin” Makes It Possible
- Tiny Orange Beads Found by Apollo Astronauts Reveal Moon’s Explosive Past
- Magnetic Mayhem at the Sun’s Poles: First Images Reveal a Fiery Mystery
Saturday, June 14, 2025
- CRISPR-Edited Stem Cells Reveal Hidden Causes of Autism
- This Quantum Sensor Tracks 3D Movement Without GPS
Friday, June 13, 2025
- Webb Space Telescope Reveals Starburst Galaxies That Lit Up the Early Universe
- The 10,000-Mile March Through Fire That Made Dinosaurs Possible
Thursday, June 12, 2025
- NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals Monster Star Clumps in Galactic Wreckage
- Brain-Computer Interface Restores Real-Time Speech in ALS Patient
- Atom-Thin Tech Replaces Silicon in the World’s First 2D Computer
- Something More Toxic Than Gators Is Hiding in the Swamps
- The Hunger Switch in Your Nose: How Smells Tell Your Brain to Stop Eating
- Scientists Just Took a Big Step Toward the Quantum Internet
- Sun’s Secret Storms Exposed: NASA's Codex Unveils a Turbulent Corona
- Pincer Plot Twist: How Female Earwigs Evolved Deadly Claws for Love and War