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Tiny X-Ray Telescope Could Map Moon's Hidden Chemistry for First Time
Researchers demonstrate that compact satellite-based instrument could reveal complete elemental composition across entire lunar surface.
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ScienceBiggest Collagen Study Yet Finds Real Benefits for Skin and Aching Joints, but Not Athletic Performance
An umbrella review pooling 113 trials and nearly 8,000 participants concludes collagen supplements modestly improve skin hydration, elasticity and osteoarthritis pain, while offering no meaningful boost to sports performance.
ScienceScientists Are Seriously Asking Whether Bees Are Conscious — and Whether ChatGPT Isn't
A new wave of research argues that the test for consciousness should be how a mind works, not how it behaves — a shift that points toward insects having inner experience while today's chatbots merely 'roleplay' it.
ScienceNASA Proves a Spacecraft Can 'Roam' Between Satellite Networks Like a Phone
The Polylingual Experimental Terminal beamed data through NASA, Viasat and SES networks from orbit — a milestone that could let future missions hop between commercial and government relays instead of relying on one.
ScienceOctopuses Learn to Use Mirrors to Find Hidden Food in Groundbreaking Intelligence Study
Dartmouth researchers demonstrate that octopuses can master mirror use for spatial reasoning, a skill previously documented only in vertebrates like mammals and birds.
ScienceArchaeologists Unearth a Near-Complete Ancient Egyptian Funerary Set Beneath a Cairo Tomb
A copper mirror, kohl jars still holding their cosmetic residue and gold-set scarabs were found in the Panhesy tomb at Heliopolis — the first such complete assemblage recovered in the area.
ScienceScientists Sound the Alarm as 'Brain-Eating' Amoebae Spread to New Regions
Climate change and aging water systems are helping resilient free-living amoebae expand their reach, researchers warn — and the organisms can shelter other dangerous microbes inside them.
ScienceWorld-First AI-Designed 'Universal' Coronavirus Vaccine Passes Its First Human Trial
Cambridge researchers and spin-out DIOSynVax report that a vaccine whose key component was designed entirely by machine learning was safe in 39 volunteers and triggered immunity against SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1 and bat coronaviruses.
ScienceGiant Fire Tornadoes Could Clean Up Oil Spills Faster With Less Pollution
Researchers show that controlled fire whirls consume up to 95% of oil while cutting soot emissions by 40% compared to traditional burning methods.
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Scientists Build a 'Missing' Phase of Matter From Silver Nanoparticle 'LEGO Blocks'
A Brown University team stabilized a long-theorized transitional crystal structure — captured directly for the first time — opening a new route to engineering advanced materials.
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Webb Telescope Unveils the Most Detailed Map of the Cosmic Web Ever Made
Using its largest survey to date, the James Webb Space Telescope traced the vast network of filaments and voids connecting more than 164,000 galaxies back to when the universe was just a billion years old.
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Webb Maps Bizarre Weather on a Hot Jupiter: Sandy Mornings, Clear Evenings
On the scorching exoplanet WASP-94A b, the James Webb Space Telescope found thick clouds of vaporized rock at dawn that vanish by sunset — a finding that may upend a decade of exoplanet measurements.
ScienceGLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs Linked to 30% Lower Breast Cancer Risk in Major Study
Research involving over 110,000 women found those taking Ozempic, Wegovy, and similar medications had significantly reduced cancer rates, though clinical trials are still needed.
ScienceBeluga Whales Keep Switching Mates in a Strategy That May Save Their Species
A 13-year DNA study of more than 600 belugas in Alaska's Bristol Bay found both sexes reproduce with many different partners, a flexible mating system that preserves genetic diversity in a small, isolated population.
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Octopuses Learn to Use Mirrors to Hunt Prey They Cannot See, a First for Invertebrates
In a Dartmouth experiment, octopuses trained on a virtual crab turned 180 degrees to strike the real target behind them, showing they can treat a mirror as a tool — a skill long thought to belong only to vertebrates.
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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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Giant 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.
