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August 26, 2025
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Aug. 26, 2025 — A research team created a plant-inspired molecule that can store four charges using sunlight, a key step toward artificial photosynthesis. Unlike past attempts, it works with dimmer light, edging closer to real-world solar fuel ...
Aug. 26, 2025 — University of Minnesota researchers developed a 3D-printed scaffold that directs stem cells to grow into functioning nerve cells, successfully restoring movement in rats with severed spinal cords. This promising technique could transform future ...
Aug. 26, 2025 — Scientists have cracked one of chemistry’s toughest challenges with indoles, using copper to unlock a spot once thought too stubborn to change. The discovery could pave the way for easier, cheaper ...
Aug. 26, 2025 — Knee osteoarthritis is a major cause of pain and disability, but routine X-rays often do more harm than good. New research shows that being shown an X-ray can increase anxiety, make people fear exercise, and lead them to believe surgery is the only ...
Aug. 26, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world. The finding overturns long-held theories suggesting that tiny, low-mass stars lack the material needed to form or keep ...
Aug. 26, 2025 — Deep beneath southern China, JUNO has launched one of the most ambitious neutrino experiments in history. With its massive 20,000-ton liquid scintillator detector now operational, it’s poised to ...
Aug. 26, 2025 — Astronomers using the Inouye Solar Telescope have captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar flare, revealing coronal loops as thin as 21 km wide. These threadlike plasma structures, imaged during an X1.3-class flare, confirm long-standing ...
Aug. 26, 2025 — A nationwide study found that recent colds caused by rhinoviruses can give short-term protection against COVID-19. Children benefit most, as their immune systems react strongly with antiviral defenses, helping explain their lower rates of severe ...
Aug. 26, 2025 — Painkillers we often trust — ibuprofen and acetaminophen — may be quietly accelerating one of the world’s greatest health crises: antibiotic resistance. Researchers discovered that these drugs not only fuel bacterial resistance on their own ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — Researchers uncovered that the Maui wildfires caused a spike in deaths far higher than reported, with hidden fatalities linked to fire, smoke, and lack of medical access. They warn that prevention rooted in Native Hawaiian ecological knowledge is ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — A chance glance at a museum display has led to the first-ever discovery of an ichthyosaur fossil in western Japan, dating back around 220 million years. Initially mistaken for a common bivalve fossil, the specimen was revealed to contain 21 bone ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — A stunning discovery in North Greenland has reclassified strange squid-like fossils, revealing that nectocaridids were not early cephalopods but ancestors of arrow worms. Preserved nervous systems and unique anatomical features provided the ...
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Aug. 25, 2025 — Scientists at CERN’s ATLAS experiment have uncovered compelling evidence of Higgs bosons decaying into muons, an incredibly rare event that could deepen our understanding of how particles acquire ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — Scientists using Google’s quantum processor have taken a major step toward unraveling the deepest mysteries of the universe. By simulating ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — Physicists have built a novel superconducting platform that mimics hidden vortex states once thought unobservable. Their "backdoor" method overcomes experimental limits, letting them control quantum ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — A large study of nearly 16,000 adults found no link between eating animal protein and higher death risk. Surprisingly, higher animal protein intake was associated with lower cancer mortality, ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — Scientists have identified compounds that block bitter taste receptors activated by saccharin and acesulfame K. The most promising is (R)-(-)-carvone, which reduces bitterness without the cooling ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — UBC researchers revealed that gut bacteria can digest cellulose-based food thickeners, once thought indigestible, by using enzymes activated by natural dietary fibers. This discovery suggests these ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — Scientists have discovered that electron spin loss, long considered waste, can instead drive magnetization switching in spintronic devices, boosting efficiency by up to three times. The scalable, ...
Aug. 25, 2025 — Researchers cracked the mystery of altermagnets, materials with no net magnetization yet strange light-reflecting powers, by creating a new optical measurement method. Their findings confirmed ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Ripple bugs’ fan-like legs inspired engineers to build the Rhagobot, a tiny robot with self-morphing fans. By mimicking these insects’ passive, ultra-fast movements, the robot gains speed, ...
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Aug. 26, 2025 — Australian teachers are in crisis, with 9 in 10 experiencing severe stress and nearly 70% saying their workload is unmanageable. A major UNSW Sydney study found teachers suffer depression, anxiety, ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Scientists have developed a groundbreaking cryo-optical microscopy technique that freezes living cells mid-action, capturing ultra-detailed snapshots of fast biological processes. By rapidly ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Perseverance is exploring Mars’ sandy ripples, strange frozen waves that could reveal how wind still shapes the planet. Along the way it uncovered unusual helmet-shaped rocks, sparking new ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Researchers uncovered that hypothalamic neurons safeguard blood sugar overnight by directing fat breakdown, preventing hypoglycemia during early sleep. This subtle control system may explain abnormal ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Researchers discovered that heart failure patients with inconsistent sleep patterns were more than twice as likely to experience serious setbacks within six months. The risk remained high even when ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Researchers have created plant-based microbeads that trap fat in the gut, helping rats lose weight without side effects. Unlike current drugs, the beads are safe, tasteless, and easy to mix into ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — St. Jude researchers revealed that midkine blocks amyloid beta from forming harmful clumps linked to Alzheimer’s. Without it, the damaging assemblies accelerate, but with it, growth halts. The ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — By using quantum dots and smart encryption protocols, researchers overcame a 40-year barrier in quantum communication, showing that secure networks don’t need perfect hardware to outperform ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — Earth may already be broadcasting its presence to alien civilizations without realizing it. A new study shows that our deep-space transmissions, especially those aimed at Mars and interplanetary ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Astronomers have detected the closest and brightest fast radio burst ever recorded, a dazzling signal from a galaxy just 130 million light-years away. The extraordinary flash, nicknamed RBFLOAT, ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — For years, scientists thought Jupiter’s strange interior was the result of a massive collision in its youth. But new research suggests that the planet’s diffuse, “fuzzy” core wasn’t born ...
Aug. 22, 2025 — A research team has created a quantum logic gate that uses fewer qubits by encoding them with the powerful GKP error-correction code. By entangling quantum vibrations inside a single atom, they ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — Too much salt may inflame the brain, triggering hormones that push blood pressure higher. Scientists found this pathway could explain why many patients resist current hypertension drugs, pointing ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown that a small bench-top reactor can enhance nuclear fusion rates by electrochemically loading a metal with deuterium fuel. Unlike massive ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — Researchers at Zhejiang University have found a way to stop performance-killing Auger recombination in perovskite lasers, using a clever additive during processing. Their method produced a ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — A new study reveals that the majority of Earth’s species stem from a few evolutionary explosions, where new traits or habitats sparked rapid diversification. From flowers to birds, these bursts ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered ...
Aug. 22, 2025 — Researchers discovered that women with Alzheimer’s show a sharp loss of omega fatty acids, unlike men, pointing to sex-specific differences in the disease. The study suggests omega-rich diets could ...
Aug. 22, 2025 — Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore ...
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- Stopping Time in Cells Exposes Life’s Fastest Secrets
- Strange Ripples Frozen in Mars’ Sands Could Hold Keys to Human Survival
- Your Brain Works Overtime at Night to Burn Fat and Prevent Sugar Crashes
- Why Irregular Sleep Puts Heart Failure Patients in Danger
- Tiny Green Tea Beads Trap Fat and Melt Away Pounds Without Side Effects
Saturday, August 23, 2025
- Tiny Protein Dismantles the Toxic Clumps Behind Alzheimer’s
- Tiny Quantum Dots Unlock the Future of Unbreakable Encryption
- Are We Accidentally Broadcasting Our Location to Alien Civilizations?
Sunday, August 24, 2025
- Closest and Brightest Fast Radio Burst Ever Detected by Astronomers
- Jupiter’s Core Isn’t What We Thought
Friday, August 22, 2025
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- Too Much Salt Can Hijack Your Brain
- Tiny Reactor Boosts Fusion With a Sponge-Like Trick
- A Simple Trick Just Made Tiny Lasers More Powerful Than Ever
- Scientists Found the Missing Nutrients Bees Need — Colonies Grew 15-Fold
- Most of Earth’s Species Came from Explosive Bursts of Evolution
- These Asteroids Share a Strange Fingerprint from Billions of Years Ago
Friday, August 22, 2025
- A Startling Omega-3 Deficiency May Explain Women’s Alzheimer’s Risk
- What Came Before the Big Bang? Supercomputers May Hold the Answer
- Ozone Recovery Could Trigger 40% More Global Warming Than Predicted
- Hidden Venom Divide in Australia’s Deadliest Snake Raises Urgent Treatment Questions
- Why Some People Age Faster. And the 400 Genes Behind It
- Scientists Discover Crystal That Breathes Oxygen Like Lungs
Thursday, August 21, 2025
- Astronomers Uncover Enormous Bubble Bigger Than Our Solar System
- Astronomers Stunned by the Strangest Supernova Ever Seen
- How Hidden Cosmic Highways Feed the Universe’s Biggest Stars
- The Surprising Reason Timber Plantations Explode Into Megafires
- 140,000-Year-Old Skeleton Shows Earliest Interbreeding Between Humans and Neanderthals
- Voyager Missed It, but James Webb Just Found Uranus’ Hidden Moon
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
- Scientists Just Found a Protein That Reverses Brain Aging
- Protected Seas Help Kelp Forests Bounce Back from Heatwaves
Thursday, August 21, 2025
- Scientists Finally Crack the Secret to Perfect Chocolate Flavor
- Ancient Solar System Crash May Explain Bennu and Ryugu’s Origin
- This Is Where Tree Planting Has the Biggest Climate Impact
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
- Why Listening May Be the Most Powerful Medicine
- How Low Should Blood Pressure Go? New Study Has the Answer
- Scientists Just Found the Brain’s Secret GPS System
- Genetic Evidence Confirms Early Puberty Accelerates Aging and Disease
- Scientists Uncover Sugar Pathway Driving Aggressive Childhood Cancer
- Scientists Unlock the Gene That Lets Bearded Dragons Switch Sex
- After 70 Years, the Sun’s Explosive Mystery Is Finally Solved
Monday, August 18, 2025
- Forget LASIK: Safer, Cheaper Vision Correction Could Be Coming Soon
- Even Mild Covid May Leave Blood Vessels Five Years Older
- Is Ketamine the Answer for Chronic Pain? New Findings Cast Doubt
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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- Trojan Horse Bacteria Sneak Cancer-Killing Viruses Into Tumors
- Scientists Just Found a Hidden Factor Behind Earth’s Methane Surge
- Scientists Uncover the Lost Shelduck That Chose Walking Over Flight
- The Surprising Way Rising CO2 Could Supercharge Space Storms
- Scientists Finally Tame the Impossible 48-Atom Carbon Ring
- One Gene Completely Changed How These Flies Fall in Love
Thursday, August 14, 2025
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- Ancient Fossil Discovery in Ethiopia Rewrites Human Origins
- A Safe Painkiller? New Research Raises Concerns About Tylenol’s Safety in Pregnancy
Friday, August 22, 2025
- Mysterious “little Red Dots” Could Reveal How the First Black Holes Formed
- A Star Torn Apart by a Black Hole Lit Up the Universe Twice
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
- Why Recycling ‘dead’ Batteries Could Save Billions and Slash Pollution
- Tiny Microbes May Secretly Rewire the Brain Before Birth
Monday, August 18, 2025
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- Scientists May Have Found the Tiny DNA Switch That Made Us Human
- Hubble Spots a Nearly Invisible Galaxy Hiding in Plain Sight
Thursday, August 14, 2025
- NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Just Learned How to Multitask
- The Disappearing Planet Next Door Has Astronomers Intrigued
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
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Saturday, August 16, 2025
- The Ocean’s Fragile Fortresses Are Crumbling Under Climate Pressure
- One Small Walking Adjustment Could Delay Knee Surgery for Years
Friday, August 15, 2025
- A $2 Gold Nanotech Test That Detects Deadly Diseases in Minutes
- Strange Spotted Rock on Mars Could Reveal Signs of Ancient Life
Thursday, August 14, 2025
- How Cats With Dementia Could Help Crack the Alzheimer’s Puzzle
- Injectable “skin in a Syringe” Could Heal Burns Without Scars
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
- Blood Pressure Cuff Errors May Be Missing 30% of Hypertension Cases
- Tiny “talking” Robots Form Shape-Shifting Swarms That Heal Themselves
- Tiny Ancient Whale With a Killer Bite Found in Australia
- Scientists Warn Ocean Could Soon Reach Rapa Nui’s Sacred Moai
- Global Study Reveals the Surprising Habit Behind Tough Decisions
- Scientists Turn Grapevine Waste Into Clear, Strong Films That Vanish in Days
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Sunday, August 17, 2025
- NASA’s PREFIRE Satellites Reveal a Secret Glow Escaping from Our Planet
- A Record-Breaking Antenna Just Deployed in Space. Here’s What It Will See
- Myanmar’s Massive Quake Hints at Bigger Earthquakes to Come
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Friday, August 15, 2025
- How Scientists Made Quantum Dots Smarter and Cheaper
- Predator Fly Unleashes Chaotic Ant Wars That Could Save Coffee
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
- Ancient Predators and Giant Amphibians Found in African Fossil Treasure Trove
- The Surprising Brain Chemistry Behind Instant Friendships
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
- The Hidden Mental Health Danger in Today’s High-THC Cannabis
- Scientists Detect Virus Traces in Blood That May Unlock Long COVID’s Mystery
- Scientists Discover Brain Layers That Get Stronger With Age
- Scientists Reversed Memory Loss by Powering the Brain’s Tiny Engines
- Why AI Emails Can Quietly Destroy Trust at Work
- The Parasite That Turns Off Your Body’s Pain Alarm and Sneaks in