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Ancient DNA from 16,000 people reveals natural selection shaped West Eurasian genomes more deeply than scientists thought.
A huge ancient DNA study finds hundreds of signs of natural selection in West Eurasia over the past 10,000 years.
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Scientists propose spotting alien life through patterns across many planets, not just single biosignatures.
SpaceResearchers propose a broader new way to detect life beyond EarthJoseph Shavit
Astronomers find three distinct groups of merging black holes hidden in gravitational-wave data.
SpaceAstronomers discover three distinct groups of merging black holesJoshua Shavit
The cosmic microwave background, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang that fills all of space, passes through massive galaxy clusters whose motion slightly alters the light, allowing scientists to measure how fast the clusters are moving toward one another and test how strongly gravity pulls across the largest distances in the universe.
SpaceScientists reveal the hidden forces shaping how gravity works across the UniverseJoseph Shavit
Simba Srivastava is a senior majoring in geosciences.
DiscoveriesStudent discovers new carnivore dinosaur 3x older than T. rexRebecca Shavit
Galaxy GN-z11, shown in the inset, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the big bang, when the universe was only three percent of its current age.
SpaceAstronomers find compelling new evidence of the first stars formed after the Big BangJoshua Shavit
Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029, giving scientists a rare chance to watch gravity reshape an asteroid.
Space‘God of chaos’ asteroid Apophis will pass very close to Earth in 2029Joseph Shavit
A vanished inland sea larger than the Great Lakes combined helped reshape North America’s land, rivers, and climate.
Green ImpactThe lost inland sea that dwarfed the Great Lakes and reshaped North AmericaRebecca Shavit
New research suggests nicotine-exposed lung cells may send signals that disrupt brain iron balance and trigger neurodegenerative stress.
HealthNew research finds clear link between smoking and dementiaHannah Shavit-Weiner
Warmer springs make bees and wasps emerge earlier, but many lose crucial body mass before adulthood.
Green ImpactThe hidden costs of climate change for bees and waspsHannah Shavit-Weiner
Artist impression of Artemis II: Orion and its European Service Module as they separate from the second stage of NASA's Space Launch System rocket, the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS).
SpaceArtemis II isn’t the farthest human spaceflight, and it’s not even closeJoseph Shavit
CMS measured the W boson mass with high precision, backing the Standard Model and challenging the 2022 CDF anomaly.
DiscoveriesPhysicists achieve most accurate measurement yet of the W bosonJoshua Shavit
After fieldwork, genomic samples were analyzed at the molecular laboratories of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito. The results demonstrated that the population found represented a new species.
DiscoveriesNew glassfrog species named in honor of Equadorian Olympic champion Neisi DajomesAmyn Bhai
New modeling suggests Yellowstone’s magma comes from shallow mantle flow, not a deep plume.
Green ImpactThe hidden mantle flow shaping Yellowstone’s supervolcanoRebecca Shavit
A famous 300-million-year-old “octopus” fossil was actually a nautiloid, hidden by decay before fossilization.
Discoveries300-million-year-old sea creature mistaken for the world’s oldest octopusHannah Shavit-Weiner
Review finds nicotine e-cigarettes are likely to cause lung and oral cancers, based on human, animal and lab evidence.
HealthStudy finds surprising new link between vaping and cancerMac Oliveau
SuperCDMS reaches base temperature deep underground, opening a new search for ultralight dark matter particles.
SpaceThe coldest ever hunt for dark matter has begun deep undergroundShy Cohen