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July 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 New research from the University of Sydney sheds light on how coronaviruses emerge in bat populations, focusing on young bats as hotspots for infections and co-infections that may drive viral ...
July 22, 2025 Scientists have uncovered hidden bony armor—called osteoderms—beneath the skin of 29 goanna species across Australasia, a discovery that radically changes what we thought we knew about lizard ...
July 22, 2025 Scientists in Australia have uncovered the biological triggers behind oil production in oats, a discovery that could revolutionize how oats are processed and marketed. By using advanced imaging and ...
July 22, 2025 Scientists have observed a brand-new and exotic atomic nucleus: aluminium-20. Unlike anything seen before, it decays through a stunning three-proton emission sequence, shedding light on nuclear behavior far beyond the limits of stability. This ...
July 22, 2025 A surprising discovery from Emory University shows that psilocin, the active metabolite of psychedelic mushrooms, can delay cellular aging and extend lifespan. Human cells lived over 50% longer, and mice treated with psilocybin not only lived 30% ...
July 22, 2025 Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat surfaces formed over 80 million years ago before Antarctica froze. These hidden features, stretching across 3,500 kilometers, are ...
July 22, 2025 NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, shedding light on everything from dark energy to black hole physics. Its ...
July 22, 2025 Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have created a powerful new material by guiding bacteria to grow cellulose in aligned patterns, resulting in sheets with the strength of ...
July 21, 2025 Millions of tons of plastic in the ocean aren't floating in plain sight—they're invisible. Scientists have now confirmed that the most abundant form of plastic in the Atlantic is in the form of ...
July 21, 2025 What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international study reveals that ancient viral DNA buried in our genes plays an active role in controlling how other genes are turned on ...
July 21, 2025 Beneath Yellowstone’s stunning surface lies a hyperactive seismic world, now better understood thanks to machine learning. Researchers have uncovered over 86,000 earthquakes—10 times more than previously known—revealing chaotic swarms moving ...
July 21, 2025 A new UK study shows that vaccinating pregnant women against RSV has led to a staggering 72% drop in hospitalizations of newborns with severe lung infections. By passing virus-fighting antibodies to ...
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July 21, 2025 Using a clever combo of iron and radical chemistry, scientists have unlocked a safer, faster way to create carbenes molecular powerhouses key to modern medicine and materials. It s 100x more ...
July 21, 2025 Gene editing may hold the key to rescuing endangered species—not just by preserving them, but by restoring their lost genetic diversity using DNA from museum specimens and related species. ...
July 20, 2025 A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, ...
July 20, 2025 Astronomers have discovered a bizarre object in the outer solar system, 2020 VN40, that dances to Neptune’s gravitational beat in a never-before-seen rhythm. It’s the first of its kind, orbiting ...
July 20, 2025 Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found that ...
July 20, 2025 Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb ...
July 20, 2025 Scientists have used DNA's self-assembling properties to engineer intricate moiré superlattices at the nanometer scale—structures that twist and ...
July 19, 2025 Scientists have cracked a century-old physics mystery by detecting magnetic signals in non-magnetic metals using only light and a revamped laser technique. Previously undetectable, these faint ...
July 19, 2025 Ancient Iranians hosted epic feasts with wild boars that had been hunted and transported from distant regions. These animals weren’t just ...
July 18, 2025 Despite our strong belief in dogs' ability to sense good from bad in people, new research shows they may not actually judge human character, at least ...
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July 18, 2025 A gene called SDR42E1 has been identified as a key player in how our bodies absorb and process vitamin D. Researchers found that disabling this gene in colorectal cancer cells not only crippled their ...
July 18, 2025 Tourists feeding wild elephants may seem innocent or even compassionate, but a new 18-year study reveals it s a recipe for disaster. Elephants in Sri Lanka and India have learned to beg for snacks ...
July 18, 2025 Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...
July 17, 2025 Neanderthals living in two nearby caves in ancient Israel prepared their food in surprisingly different ways, according to new archaeological evidence. Despite using the same tools and hunting the ...
July 18, 2025 In a groundbreaking UK first, eight healthy babies have been born using an IVF technique that includes DNA from three people—two parents and a female donor. The process, known as pronuclear ...
July 17, 2025 Dogs trained by everyday pet owners are proving to be surprisingly powerful allies in the fight against the invasive spotted lanternfly. In a groundbreaking study, citizen scientists taught their ...
July 17, 2025 Using advanced metasurfaces, researchers can now twist light to uncover hidden images and detect molecular handedness, potentially revolutionizing data encryption, biosensing, and drug ...
July 17, 2025 Mango lovers and growers alike may soon rejoice: scientists at Edith Cowan University have found that a simple dip in ozonated water can drastically extend the shelf life of mangoes by up to two ...
July 17, 2025 A shocking study reveals that many leaders of nuclear-armed nations—including US presidents and Israeli prime ministers—were afflicted by serious health problems while in office, sometimes with ...
July 17, 2025 Crystals may seem flawless, but deep inside they contain tiny structural imperfections that dramatically influence their strength and behavior. Researchers from The University of Osaka have used the ...
July 16, 2025 An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years to the last Ice Age. This frozen archive, meticulously analyzed by ...
July 16, 2025 After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it to be a chivalric romance rather than a monster-filled myth. The twist ...
July 17, 2025 A groundbreaking study from Flinders University reveals that it's not just making eye contact that matters, but precisely when and how you do it. By studying interactions between humans and ...
July 16, 2025 After devastating wildfires scorched the Brazilian Pantanal, an unexpected phenomenon unfolded—more jaguars began arriving at a remote wetland already known for having the densest jaguar population ...
July 16, 2025 Medieval medicine is undergoing a reputation makeover. New research reveals that far from being stuck in superstition, early Europeans actively explored healing practices based on nature, ...
July 16, 2025 Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly simple “tissue code”: five rules that choreograph when, where, and how cells divide, move, and die, allowing organs like the colon to remain flawlessly ...
July 15, 2025 Chemists at the University of Geneva and University of Pisa have crafted a novel family of chiral molecules whose mirror-image “handedness” remains rock-solid for tens of thousands of years. By ...
July 16, 2025 Dogs trained to detect Parkinson’s disease using scent have shown remarkable accuracy in new research. In a double-blind trial, they identified skin swabs from people with Parkinson’s with up to ...
July 16, 2025 A powerful new technique harnesses swirling plasma inside laser-blasted microtubes to produce record-breaking magnetic fields—rivaling those near neutron stars—all within a compact laboratory ...
July 16, 2025 Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to be just a cellular "courier" actually helps plants survive drought. This motor protein, myosin XI, plays a critical role in helping ...
Friday, July 18, 2025
- CRISPR Uncovers Gene That Supercharges Vitamin D—and Stops Tumors in Their Tracks
- Selfies, Sugar, and Death: How Tourists Are Endangering Elephants
- Ancient Recipes or Rituals? Neanderthal Bones Reveal a Prehistoric Culinary Mystery
Thursday, July 17, 2025
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Thursday, July 17, 2025
- These Dogs Are Trained to Sniff out an Invasive Insect—and They're Shockingly Good at It
- This Flat Chip Uses Twisted Light to Reveal Hidden Images
- This 10-Minute Ozone Hack Keeps Mangoes Fresh for 28 Days
- Cognitive Collapse and the Nuclear Codes: When Leaders Lose Control
- Why Broken Crystals Are Stronger
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
- Frozen for 12,000 Years, This Alpine Ice Core Captures the Rise of Civilization
- Scholars Just Solved a 130-Year Literary Mystery—and It All Hinged on One Word
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
- They Fled the Flames—now Jaguars Rule a Wetland Refuge
- 1,000-Year-Old Health Hacks Are Trending—and Backed by Science
- New Study Cracks the “tissue Code” — Just Five Rules Shape Organs
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
- Dogs Can Detect Parkinson’s Years Before Symptoms—with 98% Accuracy
- This Laser Implosion Just Created a Magnetic Field Like a Neutron Star
- The Secret Motor Protein That Slams Leaf Pores Shut—and Saves Crops
Monday, July 14, 2025
- Hubble Cracks Open a Glittering Cosmic Time Capsule, Revealing Multi-Generational Stars 160,000 Light-Years Away
- Can Zebrafish Help Humans Regrow Hearing Cells?
- It Looked Like Nothing—then Scientists Found a World 10x the Size of Jupiter
- This AI-Powered Lab Runs Itself—and Discovers New Materials 10x Faster
- One Shot, Seven Days: Long-Acting Levodopa Gel Tackles Parkinson’s Tremors
- Two Monster Black Holes Just Collided — It’s So Massive, It Shouldn’t Exist
- Gravitational Shockwave: LIGO Catches a 225-Solar-Mass Black-Hole Smash-Up
Saturday, July 12, 2025
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Saturday, July 12, 2025
- Florida Cat Sniffs out Another New Virus—and Scientists Are Listening
- Inside the Maya King’s Tomb That Rewrites Mesoamerican History
- Tiny Fossil With Razor Teeth Found by Student — Rewrites Mammal History
- Researchers Grow 400+ Brain Cell Types—a Leap for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Research
Friday, July 11, 2025
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Sunday, July 13, 2025
Friday, July 11, 2025
- Scientists Uncover 15,000 Kilometers of Lost Rivers on Mars
- NASA Probe Flies Into the Sun and Captures the Origins of Solar Storms
- A Simple Twist Unlocks Never-Before-Seen Quantum Behavior
- This Tiny Rice Plant Could Feed the First Lunar Colony
- The First Pandemic? Scientists Find 214 Ancient Pathogens in Prehistoric DNA
- Chang’e-6 Unearths Volcanic and Magnetic Mysteries on the Moon’s Farside
- This Shark Can Change Color — Thanks to Hidden Nano Mirrors in Its Skin
- In Seconds, AI Builds Proteins to Battle Cancer and Antibiotic Resistance
Thursday, July 10, 2025
- Brighter, Bolder, Hotter: Why Female Guppies Can't Resist Orange
- Your Brain’s Hidden Defenses Against Alzheimer’s
- Lasers Capture the Invisible Dance of Wind and Waves
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
- Hate Exercise? Neuroscience Maps the Routine Your Personality Will Love
- What Happens When Bees Can’t Buzz Right? Nature Starts Falling Apart
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
- Astronomers Catch Planets in the Act of Being Born
- Ice in a Million-Degree Fermi Bubble Reveals the Milky Way’s Recent Eruption
- Hidden DNA-Sized Crystals in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite Water—and Life Itself
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
- North America’s Oldest Pterosaur Unearthed in Arizona’s Triassic Time Capsule
- Hovering Fish Burn Twice the Energy—study Shocks Scientists
- MIT Scientists Just Supercharged the Enzyme That Powers All Plant Life
- Melting Glaciers Are Awakening Earth's Most Dangerous Volcanoes
- They Glow Without Fusion—hidden Stars That May Finally Reveal Dark Matter
Monday, July 7, 2025
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Monday, July 7, 2025
- Whispers in the Womb: How Cells “hear” to Shape the Human Body
- Breakthrough Battery Lets Physicists Reverse Entanglement—and Rewrite Quantum Law
- How a Lost Gene Gave the Sea Spider Its Bizarre, Leggy Body
Sunday, July 6, 2025
- Multisensory VR Forest Reboots Your Brain and Lifts Mood—study Confirms
- Pregnancy’s 100-Million-Year Secret: Inside the Placenta’s Evolutionary Power Play
Saturday, July 5, 2025
- Can One Vanishing Particle Shatter String Theory — and Explain Dark Matter?
- A Shocking New Way to Make Ammonia, No Fossil Fuels Needed
Friday, July 4, 2025
Thursday, July 3, 2025
- When Rainforests Died, the Planet Caught Fire: New Clues from Earth’s Greatest Extinction
- Scientists Just Mapped Platinum Atoms — and It Could Transform Catalysis Forever
- Why Anger Cools After 50: Surprising Findings from a New Menopause Study
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
- The Pandemic Pet Boom Was Real. The Happiness Boost Wasn’t
- Ultrafast 12-Minute MRI Maps Brain Chemistry to Spot Disease Before Symptoms
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
- Citizen Scientists Spot Rare Exploding Star in Real-Time
- Is Cheese Secretly Fueling Your Nightmares? Science Weighs in
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Friday, July 4, 2025
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
- Earth’s Weather Satellites Just Spent 10 Years Watching Venus — Here’s What They Found
- Why Do Killer Whales Keep Handing Us Fish? Scientists Unpack the Mystery
- How Female Friendships Help Chimp Babies Survive
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
- Is That Really ADHD? Why Flawed Trials May Be Misleading Millions
- Are Lefties Really More Creative? 100 Years of Data Say No
Monday, June 30, 2025
- Scientists Just Found a Sugar Switch That Protects Your Brain from Alzheimer's
- Ancient DNA Reveals Leprosy Hit the Americas Long Before Colonization