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An artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a planet-forming disk, with powerful winds blasting gas from the emerging planetary system.
JWST observations reveal a changing sequence of winds that may control how long young solar systems can keep building planets.
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Scientists mapped 1.55 million cubic meters of hidden ice beneath Utah’s Timpanogos Rock Glacier using gravity measurements.
Green ImpactRock glaciers worldwide may hold about 48 gigatons of waterJoseph Shavit
Simulations suggest water and rocky worlds may have appeared within 300 million years of the Big Bang, opening an earlier window for life.
SpaceLife in the universe may have formed less than 300 million years after the Big BangJoseph Shavit
Fossil teeth from Egypt reveal seven shark species that hunted in a nutrient-rich tropical sea during the Late Cretaceous.
Discoveries‘Shark graveyard’ in Egypt’s Western Desert reveals a lost tropical sea from the age of the dinosaursHannah Shavit-Weiner
Reconstruction of Purussaurus neivensis attacking Pericotoxodon platignathus.
DiscoveriesGiant crocodylians may have ruled South America’s food chain 12 million years agoJoshua Shavit
An artist’s impression of a mysterious “little red dot,” a bright, compact object nestled within a faint galaxy in the early universe.
SpaceJWST’s mysterious ‘little red dots’ may hide early black holes inside tiny galaxiesJoseph Shavit
NASA’s HOEE concept pairs a giant orbiting starshade with ground telescopes to directly image nearby Earth-like exoplanets.
SpaceNASA’s giant space ‘starshade’ could help ground telescopes photograph another EarthJoshua Shavit
Left: Slash’s groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, in New Guinea. Photo credit: Chris Austin. Right: Slash and Sara Ruane at the Field Museum, with Sara’s copy of Reptiles Magazine featuring Slash on the cover.
DiscoveriesGuns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has a newly discovered snake named after himHannah Shavit-Weiner
A new modeling tool can estimate the age of zebra sharks, which can live up to 30 years, within about two years.
DiscoveriesFirst epigenetic DNA clock can reveal a zebra shark’s age from a blood sampleJoseph Shavit
The UC-30 submarine sank in 1917, but its explosives are still affecting the surrounding marine environment.
Green ImpactOld World War wrecks are still leaking TNT into the North SeaJoshua Shavit
A runaway supermassive black hole is leaving a vast trail of newborn blue stars in its wake, dating back to when the universe was about half its present age.
SpaceRunaway supermassive black hole may be the result of a violent cosmic collisionJoseph Shavit
The Apophis 2029 flyby could reveal asteroid surface shifts, spin changes and new lessons for planetary defense.
SpaceApophis will zoom past Earth in 2029, turning a rare flyby into a planetary defense testJoseph Shavit
A nationwide database reveals where landslides threaten millions of Americans and highlights deep urban and rural divides in risk.
Green ImpactUW researchers create the first building-level map of landslide risk across the United StatesJoseph Shavit
Scientists have developed a targeted therapy that removes harmful gum bacteria while protecting beneficial microbes, offering a new path for oral health.
HealthNew light-based therapy targets gum disease without harming healthy bacteriaJoshua Shavit
A cosmic glitch in gravity may make gravity about 1% weaker across billions of light-years, challenging Einstein’s theory at vast scales.
Space‘Cosmic Glitch’ could explain why gravity acts differently across the UniverseJoseph Shavit
Binary asteroid simulations improve with a Hamel integrator that preserves energy, rotation geometry and computational efficiency.
SpaceAstronomers develop a faster way to simulate the complicated motion of binary asteroidsJoseph Shavit
Remnant radio galaxies reveal how quickly giant black hole jets fade, with many distant examples surviving for only millions of years.
SpaceTwelve fading galaxies expose a missing stage in the life of black hole jetsJoseph Shavit