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July 9, 2025
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July 8, 2025 — As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ice sheets have suppressed eruptions for thousands of years, building up underground pressure. But as that icy weight ...
July 8, 2025 — A new UCL study reveals that aligning workouts with personality boosts fitness and slashes stress—extroverts thrive on HIIT, neurotics favor short, private bursts, and everyone benefits when enjoyment leads the ...
July 8, 2025 — High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, raising alarms for ecosystems and sparking ideas ...
July 7, 2025 — Feral honey bees, once celebrated for their agricultural value, are now threatening native ecosystems in Southern California by monopolizing pollen sources and overwhelming native pollinators. A new study reveals they remove up to 80% of pollen in a ...
July 7, 2025 — Danish and Welsh botanists sifted through 400 studies, field-tested seed mixes, and uncovered a lineup of native and exotic blooms that both thrill human eyes and lure bees and hoverflies in droves, ...
July 7, 2025 — Scientists have finally uncovered a quantum counterpart to Carnot’s famed second law, showing that entanglement—once thought stubbornly irreversible—can be shuffled back and forth without loss ...
July 7, 2025 — When you're mentally exhausted, your brain might be doing more behind the scenes than you think. In a new study using functional MRI, researchers uncovered two key brain regions that activate when ...
July 6, 2025 — Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into limestone-like deposits that lock away carbon, sweeten surrounding soils, and still yield fruit—hinting at a delicious new weapon in ...
July 6, 2025 — Ambroxol, long used for coughs in Europe, stabilized symptoms and brain-damage markers in Parkinson’s dementia patients over 12 months, whereas placebo patients worsened. Those with high-risk genes ...
July 6, 2025 — Immersing stressed volunteers in a 360° virtual Douglas-fir forest complete with sights, sounds and scents boosted their mood, sharpened short-term memory and deepened their feeling of nature-connectedness—especially when all three senses were ...
July 6, 2025 — DEHP, a chemical used in plastics, may have contributed to over 356,000 heart-related deaths globally in 2018—most heavily in Asia and the Middle East. The chemical, linked to inflammation in arteries, is found in items like food packaging and ...
July 6, 2025 — A group of scientists studying pregnancy across six different mammals—from humans to marsupials—uncovered how certain cells at the mother-baby boundary have been working together for over 100 ...
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July 9, 2025 — Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ingredients of planets already stretching to Neptune-like orbits. ...
July 9, 2025 — Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s vast, super-hot Fermi ...
July 9, 2025 — Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled ...
July 9, 2025 — In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, ...
July 8, 2025 — Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge evolution technique in living cells. Normally prone to wasteful ...
July 8, 2025 — Hovering fish aren’t loafing—they burn twice resting energy to make micro-fin tweaks that counteract a natural tendency to tip, and body shape dictates just how costly the pause is. The discovery ...
July 8, 2025 — Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep within them. These “dark dwarfs” could exist in regions like the ...
July 8, 2025 — Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt “phase transition” ...
July 8, 2025 — Feral water buffalo now roam Hong Kong s South Lantau marshes, and a 657-person survey shows they ignite nostalgia, wonder, and worry in equal measure. Many residents embrace them as living links to ...
July 7, 2025 — UCLA scientists mined millions of electronic health records and uncovered four distinct “roadways” that funnel people toward ...
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July 5, 2025 — For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...
July 5, 2025 — In the frozen reaches of the planet—glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater—scientists have uncovered strange light-sensitive molecules in tiny microbes. These “cryorhodopsins” can ...
July 7, 2025 — Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins that make our ears ultrasensitive. By syncing these micro-movements, the ...
July 7, 2025 — Researchers have developed an ultra-thin drumhead-like membrane that lets sound signals, or phonons, travel through it with astonishingly low loss, better than even electronic circuits. These ...
July 7, 2025 — Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in its legs and barely any abdomen—may be tied to a missing gene. The ...
July 7, 2025 — Feeling jittery as the week kicks off isn’t just a mood—it leaves a biochemical footprint. Researchers tracked thousands of older adults and found those who dread Mondays carry elevated cortisol ...
July 7, 2025 — Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By fusing film with satellites, they discovered warm ocean water, not surface ...
July 5, 2025 — People who treat hearing loss with hearing aids or cochlear implants regain rich conversations, escape isolation, and may even protect their brains and lifespans—proof that better hearing ...
July 5, 2025 — Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted ...
July 5, 2025 — Australian scientists have discovered a method to produce ammonia—an essential component in fertilizers—using only air and electricity. By mimicking lightning and channeling that energy through a ...
July 4, 2025 — Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain ...
July 4, 2025 — A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in on a part of the virus called the NiRAN domain, believed to be a powerful ...
July 4, 2025 — Forests aren’t keeping up with today’s climate chaos. While temperatures soar within decades, tree populations take 100 to 200 years to shift in response. A sweeping new analysis of ancient ...
July 4, 2025 — Preserving strips of native vegetation beside avocado orchards gives insects a buffet of wild pollen when blossoms are scarce, doubling their plant menu and boosting their resilience. Using ...
July 3, 2025 — An advanced Johns Hopkins AI model called MAARS combs through underused heart MRI scans and complete medical records to spot hidden scar patterns that signal sudden cardiac death, dramatically ...
July 3, 2025 — When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ ...
July 3, 2025 — A compound best known for giving almonds and apricots their aroma may be the key to defeating hard-to-kill cancer cells. Japanese researchers found that benzaldehyde can stop the shape-shifting ...
July 2, 2025 — A multinational team has cracked a long-standing barrier to reliable quantum computing by inventing an algorithm that lets ordinary computers faithfully mimic a fault-tolerant quantum circuit built ...
July 3, 2025 — A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration ...
July 3, 2025 — Anger isn’t just a fleeting emotion—it plays a deeper role in women’s mental and physical health during midlife. A groundbreaking study tracking over 500 women aged 35 to 55 reveals that anger ...
Saturday, July 5, 2025
- Scientists Thought the Arctic Was Sealed in Ice — They Were Wrong
- Frozen Light Switches: How Arctic Microbes Could Revolutionize Neuroscience
Monday, July 7, 2025
- Whispers in the Womb: How Cells “hear” to Shape the Human Body
- Tiny Quantum Drumhead Sends Sound With 1-in-a-Million Loss—poised to Rewrite Tech
- How a Lost Gene Gave the Sea Spider Its Bizarre, Leggy Body
- New Research Shows Monday Stress Is Etched Into Your Biology
- Antarctica’s Slow Collapse Caught on Camera—and It’s Accelerating
Saturday, July 5, 2025
- The Surprising Link Between Hearing Loss, Loneliness, and Lifespan
- 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
- New Research Confirms That Neurons Form in the Adult Brain
- Scientists Just Found a Major Flaw in a Key COVID Drug Study
- Climate Is Changing Fast—and Forests Are 200 Years Behind
- Avocado Alert! DNA Reveals How Native Plants Keep Brunch on the Menu
Thursday, July 3, 2025
- AI Spots Deadly Heart Risk Most Doctors Can't See
- When Rainforests Died, the Planet Caught Fire: New Clues from Earth’s Greatest Extinction
- Sweet-Smelling Molecule Halts Therapy-Resistant Pancreatic Cancer
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Thursday, July 3, 2025
- 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
Thursday, July 3, 2025
- This Sun-Powered Sponge Pulls Drinking Water Straight from the Ocean
- A Star Exploded Twice — First-Ever Image Reveals Its Cosmic Fingerprint
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Thursday, July 3, 2025
- Parkinson’s Reversal? One Drug Brings Dying Brain Cells Back to Life
- Rainforest Deaths Are Surging and Scientists Just Found the Shocking Cause
- Even Low Levels of Air Pollution May Quietly Scar Your Heart, MRI Study Finds
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
- A Midlife MRI That Spots Rapid Aging and Signals Disease Long Before Symptoms
- The Pandemic Pet Boom Was Real. The Happiness Boost Wasn’t
- Tiny Gut “sponge” Bacteria Found to Flush out Toxic PFAS “forever Chemicals”
- Researchers Tested 200 Toddlers — 96 Chemicals Were Lurking in Their Bodies
- 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
- Synthetic Storm: What’s Really in Your Teen’s Vape — and Why Scientists Are Alarmed
Friday, July 4, 2025
- Scientists Starved Worms — Then Discovered the Switch That Controls Aging
- A Cholesterol Secret Inside Ticks May Halt Lyme Disease Spread
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
- UF Students Are Bending Metal With Lasers to Build Massive Structures in Orbit
- Earth’s Weather Satellites Just Spent 10 Years Watching Venus — Here’s What They Found
- Antarctica’s Ocean Flip: Satellites Catch Sudden Salt Surge Melting Ice from Below
- 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
- This Virus Infects Millions—and We Just Discovered Its Secret Weapon
- Scientists Just Found a Sugar Switch That Protects Your Brain from Alzheimer's
- This AI Tracks Lung Tumors as You Breathe — and It Might Save Lives
- Ancient DNA Reveals Leprosy Hit the Americas Long Before Colonization
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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Friday, June 27, 2025
- Tiny Creatures, Massive Impact: How Zooplankton Store 65 Million Tonnes of Carbon Annually
- AI Sees What Doctors Miss: Fatty Liver Disease Hidden in Chest X-Rays
Monday, July 7, 2025
Sunday, July 6, 2025
- Scientists Capture Real-Time Birth of Ultrafast Laser Pulses
- New Tech Tracks Blood Sodium Without a Single Needle
Friday, July 4, 2025
Monday, June 30, 2025
- Scientists Discover ‘off Switch’ Enzyme That Could Stop Heart Disease and Diabetes
- Fire Smoke Exposure Leaves Toxic Metals and Lasting Immune Changes
- Fighting Fire With Fire: How Prescribed Burns Reduce Wildfire Damage and Pollution
Sunday, June 29, 2025
- Scientists Just Reconstructed Half the Neanderthal Genome—thanks to Indian DNA
- The Gene That Hijacks Fear: How PTEN Rewires the Brain’s Anxiety Circuit
- Brain Scan Breakthrough Reveals Why Parkinson’s Drugs Don’t Always Work
- This Brain Scan Sees Alzheimer’s Coming—but Only in Some Brains
Saturday, June 28, 2025
- Record-Breaking 10-Billion-Year Radio Halo Just Rewrote the Universe’s Origin Story
- Scientists Turn Beer Yeast Into Mini Factories for Smart Drugs
Friday, June 27, 2025
- Why Asthma Often Comes Back—even With Powerful Drugs
- World’s Largest Camera Just Snapped the Universe in 3,200 Megapixels
- These 545-Million-Year-Old Fossil Trails Just Rewrote the Story of Evolution
- This Breakthrough Turns Old Tech Into Pure Gold — No Mercury, No Cyanide, Just Light and Salt
- Self-Lighting Chip Uses Quantum Tunneling to Spot a Trillionth of a Gram
- One Shot, Game Changed: How RAVEN Captured a Petawatt Laser and Supercharged Fusion Research
Thursday, June 26, 2025
- Acid-Busting Diet Triggers 13-Pound Weight Loss in Just 16 Weeks
- Skull Study Shows Chicago's Rodents Are Rapidly Evolving
Saturday, July 5, 2025
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
- Hot Tubs Outperform Saunas in Boosting Blood Flow and Immune Power
- This Team Tried to Cross 140 Miles of Treacherous Ocean Like Stone-Age Humans—and It Worked
- Farming Without Famine: Ancient Andean Innovation Rewrites Agricultural Origins
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
Monday, June 30, 2025
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Friday, June 27, 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025
- Why Cats Prefer Sleeping on Their Left Side—and How It Might Help Them Survive
- Can These Endangered Lizards Beat the Heat? Scientists Test Bold Relocation Plan
- New Test Unmasks Illegal Elephant Ivory Disguised as Mammoth
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
- Scientists Reveal Your Morning Coffee Flips an Ancient Longevity Switch
- 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
- Mammals Didn't Walk Upright Until Late—here's What Fossils Reveal
- The Brain’s Sweet Spot: How Criticality Could Unlock Learning, Memory—and Prevent Alzheimer’s
- Inside the Tumor: AI Cracks Five Hidden Cell Types to Stop Cancer’s Comeback
- Scientists Reprogram Ant Behavior Using Brain Molecules