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Science news: space, biology, climate, medicine and the research changing how we live.
Researchers found that cysteine-rich diets activate immune cells that release healing signals, potentially offering new treatment for cancer patients with gut damage.
A new Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study by Barbara Sherwood Lollar and Jen-Ru Wang documents 15,000 boreholes venting more than 140 metric tons of pure hydrogen a year, enough to power roughly 400 households and signaling a potentially vast new clean-energy frontier across northern Canada.
Researchers using AI-powered fluke-pattern recognition identified the same individuals at sites about 9,300 miles apart and traveling in opposite directions — a feat that beats the previous Colombia-to-Zanzibar record and rewrites textbook accounts of how rigid humpback breeding fidelity is supposed to be.
Researchers found that removing the IDOL enzyme from neurons significantly reduced amyloid plaques and improved brain processes linked to resilience.
A new super-resolution imaging technique called Glycan Atlasing maps the dense forest of carbohydrate molecules coating every cell, and the patterns it reveals can distinguish early-stage tumors and activated immune cells with 94 percent accuracy.
A six-year, $2.1 million NIH-funded study published in Aging and Disease identifies tristetraprolin as a master brake on the chronic, low-grade inflammation that researchers now call "inflammaging" — and shows that holding TTP at youthful levels reverses the visible effects of aging in elderly mice.
New JWST observations of COLA1 and NEPLA4 — galaxies seen only 800 million years after the Big Bang — show black holes far larger relative to their host galaxies than any modern counterpart, deepening the puzzle of how the universe built its giants so quickly.
A new ACS Nutrition Science trial shows volunteers who ate three servings of whole grapes a day for 14 days turned on dozens of skin-barrier genes and cut a key marker of UV-induced oxidative damage back to baseline.
A bird bander's casual snapshot uploaded to iNaturalist led to the remarkable rediscovery of Ptilotus senarius in remote northern Australia.
A new study published in The Cryosphere documents a two-month interval during which Hektoria's grounded ice line retreated more than five miles — a melt rate unprecedented since satellite tracking of polar ice began.
Newly mapped Lytle Beach and Vasa Park faults last cracked open around 1833, putting four million people in the Puget Sound region at greater near-term shaking risk than the much larger Cascadia subduction megathrust offshore.
Director Gabriel Zuchtriegel announced the discovery from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii on May 15, with CT scans and AI-driven 3D reconstructions revealing surgical tools, a slate compounding plate, a fabric purse of bronze and silver coins and a toothed-wheel locking mechanism preserved alongside the victim's body.
Accelerated timeline brings infrared observatory ahead of original May 2027 deadline to explore dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets.
Scientists study rare non-cremated graves to uncover how Late Bronze Age people lived, moved, and adapted to cultural changes.
Copenhagen and Munich researchers reanalyzed 100+ studies and found regaining weight erases the benefits of a diet but does not leave a person metabolically worse off — overturning decades of public-health warnings.
A routine drill into a sandstone slab nicknamed 'Atacama' lifted the entire chunk out of Gale Crater and stuck it to the rover's drill sleeve — an annoying first that handed scientists their first ever look at pristine, unweathered Martian bedrock from below.
Bird bander's casual iNaturalist upload leads to identification of rare Ptilotus senarius, proving citizen science's growing importance in biodiversity research.
World Institute of Kimchi scientists show Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656 binds 87 percent of polystyrene nanoplastics and keeps 57 percent capacity inside the human-like gut.
Lead author Rosalie Sears shows phosphorylated MYC physically migrates to damaged DNA in tumor cells, opening a new combination strategy with first-in-class inhibitor OMO-103.
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia turns the brain's own LRP1 transport system into an active drug — and treated 18-month-old mice behave like healthy younger animals six months later.
Ptilotus senarius, missing since 1967, was spotted by bird bander Aaron Bean and identified by botanist Anthony Bean through iNaturalist observations.
A new Nature Geoscience paper combines 22 years of TIMED and SABER satellite data with refined radiative-transfer models to show how the upper atmosphere has shrunk visibly as carbon dioxide climbs.
A comparative analysis of 2,025 individuals from 41 primate species, published in PLOS Biology, shows that bipedal proportions and relative brain size together fully account for humans' unique species-wide hand preference.
The magnetoplasmadynamic engine ran 25 times more powerful than the thrusters now flying on the Psyche mission, hitting tungsten temperatures above 5,000°F and marking the highest-power electric propulsion test ever conducted in the United States.
Breakthrough treatment restored brain's natural cleanup system and cleared toxic proteins, with elderly mice behaving like healthy younger animals.
Paleontologists in Teruel province have recovered the most complete Dacentrurus armatus skull ever found in Europe and proposed an entirely new evolutionary group, Neostegosauria, to make sense of where the plated dinosaur fits on the family tree.
A Curtin University-led expedition aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor mapped 226 species in two remote submarine canyons off the Ningaloo coast — including six separate environmental DNA hits on the elusive Architeuthis dux.
Sifting through millions of meteor sightings, researcher Patrick Shober identified 282 fireballs that share an extreme orbit — evidence of a hidden Sun-grazing asteroid disintegrating in the inner solar system, with implications for planetary defense.
A study in Nature Communications shows Pilea peperomioides arranges its leaf veins as a Voronoi diagram, the same mathematical pattern engineers use to optimize networks.
A modified pyrimidone molecule absorbs sunlight, locks it away as chemical strain, and releases it later as heat on demand — at 1.6 megajoules per kilogram.