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Reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis by Mauricio Antón.
A fossil jaw recovered from the Egyptian desert is rewriting the origin story of all living apes, shifting their ancestral homeland to northeastern Africa and the Middle East.
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A nasal swab may detect Alzheimer’s early by analyzing living nerve cells, offering a new path for diagnosis before symptoms appear.
HealthScientists can now detect early signs of Alzheimer’s through the noseRebecca Shavit
Understanding where a tree’s mass comes from reshapes how you think about growth, food, and the environment.
Green ImpactTrees don’t actually grow from the ground, scientists findJoseph Shavit
A rare sperm whale birth shows kin and non-kin working together to help a newborn survive its first critical hour.
DiscoveriesA rare sperm whale birth captured how families rally around a newbornHannah Shavit-Weiner
Scientists developed a new imaging tracer that tracks fat metabolism in cancer, revealing how tumors fuel their growth.
HealthNew imaging tool reveals how cancer reshapes the body’s energy useMac Oliveau
Aerial photo of Rujm el-Hiri, view to east.
DiscoveriesSatellites solved a 50-year mystery about Israel’s ‘Stonehenge’Shy Cohen
JWST reveals Saturn’s aurora drives a self-sustaining heat cycle, solving its shifting rotation mystery.
SpaceJWST just helped solve Saturn’s mysterious spin problemJoshua Shavit
A strange LIGO signal hints at primordial black holes and a possible link to dark matter.
SpaceAstrophysicists are close to proving the existence of primordial black holesJoseph Shavit
Professor Andrea Blanco-Redondo while performing the photonic quantum experiments at her lab at CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics at UCF.
DiscoveriesScientists unlock scalable entanglement for next-generation quantum computingShy Cohen
Sasan Jalili holds the microneedle skin patch, which is about the size of a quarter.
HealthSmall microneedle skin patch tracks body’s response to disease, vaccines, and treatmentMac Oliveau
New research shows immersive dreams may help sleep feel deeper, even as brain activity becomes more wake-like overnight.
HealthVivid dreams can help sleep feel deeper and more restorativeRebecca Shavit
From spaghettification to time dilation, here's what science knows, and still doesn't, about matter falling into a black hole.
SpaceThe physics of no return: What actually happens if you get pulled into a black holeJoseph Shavit
A paleontologist snorkeling an underground stream in Texas found Ice Age fossils never before seen in Central Texas
DiscoveriesLion-sized armadillo, ancient tortoises: Ice Age creatures discovered in Central TexasHannah Shavit-Weiner
Scientists used NASA's Juno to measure Jupiter lightning power during rare isolated storms. Artist's concept of lightning distribution in Jupiter's northern hemisphere.
DiscoveriesLightning bolts on Jupiter are up to 100 times stronger than Earth’sJoseph Shavit
The griffinfly, now extinct, once stretched its wings nearly 70 centimeters wide.
DiscoveriesWhy don’t giant prehistoric insects still exist?Hannah Shavit-Weiner
Modern physics suggests distance may emerge from motion, gravity and quantum entanglement, not exist as a basic fact.
SpaceDistance in space is an illusionJoseph Shavit
An AI system produced a paper that passed workshop peer review, raising new questions about science, trust and research norms.
AIThe AI Scientist takes a big step toward end-to-end automation of scientific researchShy Cohen