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Milky Way simulations show stellar streams can develop dark matter-like gaps and kinks without encounters with dark matter clumps.
Nearly 15,000 simulated stellar streams reveal that galaxies alone can create features long considered possible signs of dark matter.
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A proposed matter-antimatter experiment could test whether information has measurable energy and mass within elementary particles.
DiscoveriesCould information be a fifth form of matter? Strange matter-antimatter experiment aims to find outJoseph Shavit
Penn State researchers found hidden differences in white light can change how people feel indoor temperatures.
DiscoveriesHidden wavelengths in white light can change how warm a room feelsJoshua Shavit
Tarragoilus diuturnus (a living member of the Prophalangopsidae) displaying call oscillogram and acoustic spectral energy.
DiscoveriesFossil insect wings reveal a Jurassic world already buzzing with ultrasound communicationRebecca Shavit
Smiles activated a distinct canine brain network, while fear produced patterns different from other negative expressions.
DiscoveriesBrain scans reveal what dogs see when they look at a human faceHannah Shavit-Weiner
An artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a planet-forming disk, with powerful winds blasting gas from the emerging planetary system.
SpaceJWST reveals how young solar systems may lose the gas needed to build planetsJoshua Shavit
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