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Compact X-Ray Telescope Could Create First Complete Chemical Map of Moon
Tokyo researchers show lightweight detector could identify key elements across entire lunar surface in two-year mission.
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ScienceGiant Fire Tornadoes Could Revolutionize Oil Spill Cleanup, Scientists Find
Researchers demonstrate that controlled fire whirls burn oil 95% more completely than traditional methods while cutting soot emissions by 40%.
ScienceJames Webb Telescope Finds a Giant Early-Universe Galaxy That Simply Doesn't Spin
Astronomers were stunned to find that XMM-VID1-2075, a massive galaxy formed less than two billion years after the Big Bang, shows no sign of rotation — a trait normally seen only in much older, evolved systems.
ScienceYour Brain Decides to Be Social Seconds Before You Move, Zebrafish Study Reveals
Recording activity across an entire vertebrate brain, scientists watched a wave of coordinated signaling sweep through the mind several seconds before a fish chose to approach another — and the stronger the signal, the more social the animal.
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Four-Winged 'Dragon' Dinosaur Unearthed in China Glided Through the Trees Hunting Early Birds
Newly named Jian changmaensis, a barn-owl-sized cousin of Velociraptor, is the first non-bird dinosaur found at a Chinese site that has yielded more than 100 ancient birds — and it appears to have preyed on them.
ScienceScientists Target 'Undruggable' Pancreatic Cancer Protein, Nearly Double Patient Survival
Revolutionary drug daraxonrasib successfully attacks KRAS mutations that fuel most pancreatic tumors, offering hope for one of medicine's deadliest cancers.
ScienceScientists Discover a Continent-Scale 'Fan' of 30 Hidden Basins Beneath East Antarctica's Ice
Buried under ice up to three kilometers thick, the newly mapped structure radiates from a single point near the South Pole and may shape how the ice sheet responds to warming.
ScienceScientists Discover the 'Master Clock' That Times Every Stage of an Animal's Development
In a tiny worm, two proteins form a feedback loop that fires bursts of genes in precise, never-repeating order — the first non-repeating biological clock ever found.
ScienceEuclid Telescope Spots a Mysterious 'Gap' of Missing Stars in an Ancient Cluster for the First Time
Astronomers found a thin band of absent red dwarfs in the globular cluster NGC 6397 — a feature never before seen in such a dense, old stellar swarm.
ScienceA Black Hole 'Feeding Frenzy' May Solve the Mystery of Giant Black Holes in the Early Universe
New simulations suggest small 'seed' black holes gorged on gas faster than thought possible, explaining the monsters the James Webb telescope found just after the Big Bang.
ScienceAstronomers Find a 'Planet Factory' Just Beyond Jupiter That Churned Out Worlds for Two Million Years
A dust trap in the infant solar system acted as a breeding ground, producing generation after generation of planetary building blocks, a new study finds.
ScienceWebb Telescope Spots a Giant Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy, Upending Theory
In a 'little red dot' 13 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole makes up most of the object's mass — a finding scientists call a paradigm shift.
Science65-Foot 'Jurassic Titan' Unearthed in Patagonia Is the First of Its Kind From South America
Named Bicharracosaurus dionidei, the long-necked giant fills a major gap in the story of how the largest dinosaurs evolved in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Scientists Target 'Undruggable' Pancreatic Cancer Protein and Nearly Double Survival
New drug daraxonrasib reduces death risk by 60% in clinical trial, offering hope for patients with one of medicine's deadliest cancers.
ScienceThree Servings of French Fries a Week Tied to a 20% Higher Diabetes Risk, 40-Year Study Finds
Tracking more than 205,000 people across nearly four decades, researchers found the danger isn't the potato — it's the frying. Baked, boiled and mashed showed no added risk.
ScienceBrain Scans Reveal Autism Is Not One Condition but at Least Two, Each With Its Own Biology
An international team links 'hyperconnectivity' and 'hypoconnectivity' signatures in brain imaging to distinct genetic and immune pathways, using mouse models as a biological Rosetta Stone.
ScienceScientists Discover Hidden 40-Million-Year-Old Ant in Goethe's Amber Collection
Advanced 3D imaging reveals extinct ant species preserved in extraordinary detail, offering new insights into ancient forest ecosystems and behavior.
ScienceChild's Tooth and Green Stones Uncover 5,500-Year-Old Mountain Mining Mystery
Ancient Pyrenees cave may represent one of earliest high-altitude mining camps ever discovered, with evidence of repeated visits spanning thousands of years.
ScienceAllen Institute Bets $400 Million on a Radical Idea: Mapping the Brain Was Just the Warmup — Now It Wants to Repair It
The Seattle research powerhouse is launching a Brain Health Accelerator aimed at gene therapies for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and ALS that target diseased cells, not just proteins.
ScienceThe Ocean's Chemistry May Hinge on a Tiny Microbe Hidden Inside Fish, Surprising Scientists
A new study finds that gut bacteria team up with marine fish to manufacture carbon-trapping minerals, revealing a hidden partnership that could reshape how scientists understand the ocean's carbon cycle.
ScienceScientists Discover 'Ruptoblasts' — Immune Cells That Self-Destruct in an Explosion, Killing Up to 70 Neighbors at Once
In flatworms, Stanford researchers found a never-before-seen cell that detonates within two minutes of sensing a hormone, unleashing the most violent form of cell death ever recorded.
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Ancient Mountain Cave Reveals 5,500-Year-Old High-Altitude Mining Operations in the Pyrenees
Child's remains and green mineral fragments suggest prehistoric communities repeatedly visited remote cave for copper processing. Discovery challenges beliefs about early human use of mountain environments.
ScienceScientists Confirm an Earthquake That 'Shouldn't Exist' Struck 56 Miles Beneath Utah, Deep Inside the Earth's Mantle
Reanalyzing a faint 1979 tremor near the Utah-Idaho-Wyoming border, University of Utah researchers proved a rare class of 'continental mantle earthquakes' is rupturing rock that textbooks said should only slowly flow.
ScienceLab-Grown Brain-and-Spinal-Cord Tissue Reveals Why Nerves Stop Healing — and How a Drug Might Switch Repair Back On
Cambridge scientists grew a miniature human nervous-system circuit that twitched real muscle, then discovered that neurons lose their power to regrow around mid-pregnancy. An existing hormone drug dramatically restored that ability.
ScienceScientists Reverse Anxiety by Targeting Tiny Brain Circuit in Breakthrough Study
Researchers identified specific amygdala neurons whose imbalanced activity alone can trigger pathological behaviors, then successfully restored normal function.
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Astronomers Crack a Decades-Old Saturn Mystery: The Planet Isn't Speeding Up After All
Conflicting measurements from NASA's Cassini mission made Saturn appear to change its rotation rate — something thought impossible. A new study finds the culprit is a self-sustaining 'planetary heat pump' driven by the giant's aurora.
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Astronomers Find a Temperate Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone of a Star Just 28 Light-Years Away
The newly characterized world, more than six times Earth's mass, orbits the red dwarf Ross 318 where liquid water could exist — making it one of the most promising nearby targets in the search for habitable planets.
ScienceSingle Protein Discovery Could Unlock More Effective CAR T-Cell Cancer Therapy
Researchers identify NFIL3 as key factor causing engineered immune cells to lose cancer-fighting power, opening path to improved treatments.
ScienceOne Year of a Single Drug Delayed Rheumatoid Arthritis by Up to Four Years, Trial Finds
A King's College London study found that 12 months of abatacept kept high-risk patients from developing rheumatoid arthritis long after treatment ended, pointing toward a future of preventing the disease rather than just treating it.
ScienceGut Bacteria in Infancy May Help Shield Children From Autism and ADHD, Study Finds
Researchers report that epigenetic marks present at birth steer how a baby's gut microbiome develops in the first year — and that certain patterns were linked to early signs of autism and ADHD by age three.
