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A major study finds lifestyle choices have a stronger impact than genetics on Type 2 diabetes risk, offering hope for prevention.
Study shows healthy habits can reduce Type 2 diabetes risk, even for people with high genetic risk.
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HealthTiny extracellular vesicles delivered through the nose found to improve memory in Alzheimer’s studyJoseph Shavit
MIT researchers use Raman microscopy and gene data to identify biochemical barcodes of senescent cells without destroying tissue.
AIMIT researchers use light to identify aging cells without destroying themRebecca Shavit
Astronomers traced auroral radio bursts directly to Beta Pictoris b, revealing the first direct magnetic-field measurement of an exoplanet.
DiscoveriesSouth Africa’s MeerKAT array detects the first radio signal directly from an exoplanetJoseph Shavit
A CMS search found no microscopic black holes at CERN but excluded masses below about 9 to 11.4 TeV in models with extra dimensions.
DiscoveriesCERN scientists find no evidence that the Large Hadron Collider created microscopic black holesJoshua Shavit
A camper’s map search led scientists to a likely 25-kilometer impact crater in Quebec, with evidence pointing to a 390-million-year-old strike.
SpaceAmateur astronomer leads scientists to a massive 390-million-year-old impact crater in QuebecJoshua Shavit
Evolution gives the chicken-and-egg paradox a clear answer, but defining the first true chicken makes the story far more complicated.
DiscoveriesWhich came first, the chicken or the egg? Evolution has a surprisingly clear answerJoseph Shavit
Scientists have developed a way to transform carbon dioxide into durable, recyclable plastics, paving the way for a circular economy.
Green ImpactScientists turn carbon dioxide into fully recyclable high-performance plasticsRebecca Shavit
An instruction-free game let adolescents across the autism spectrum show researchers how they combine visual evidence.
HealthTreasure-hunt game offers a new window into perception across the autism spectrumJoseph Shavit
Tropical ocean warming redirected moisture toward East Antarctica, helping drive a temporary 695-billion-ton ice mass gain.
Green ImpactA tropical ocean hot spot helped Antarctica gain 695 billion tons of iceJoshua Shavit
A preprint links an unexplained mitochondrial vibration to a possible quantum state and reports a 10% boost in cellular ATP.
DiscoveriesScientists propose a light-matter quantum state inside living cellsJoshua Shavit
An overhead, close-up view of McGetchin crater that was taken on Dec. 5, 2025, by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC).
SpaceNASA discovers a once-in-a-century impact blasted a 728-foot crater into the MoonJoseph Shavit
Spi-Fly uses sparse neural activity to recognize smells quickly while requiring far less memory than backpropagation.
AIFruit fly-inspired AI learns smells quickly with far less memoryShy Cohen
Wild Bornean orangutans ate certain medicinal plants together more often than chance would predict.
DiscoveriesWild orangutans repeatedly combine and consume plants linked to healing and inflammationJoseph Shavit
A layered magnetic crystal converts microwave signals into light, offering a new path toward future quantum network interfaces.
DiscoveriesPhysicists convert microwaves to light helping quantum computers communicate over optical networksJoshua Shavit
Stanford physicists directly watched a single phonon vanish from a mechanical resonator, revealing quantum jumps of sound in real time.
DiscoveriesStanford physicists observe a quantum jump of sound for the first timeJoseph Shavit
Supermassive and stellar black holes may launch compact jets at the same critical feeding rate near 2% of the Eddington limit.
SpaceStellar destruction reveals a universal rule for black hole jet formationJoseph Shavit