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An ultrasound-based blood assay amplifies tiny amyloid seeds linked to Alzheimer’s and MCI before measuring their activity.
An ultrasound-based blood assay amplifies tiny amyloid seeds linked to Alzheimer’s and MCI before measuring their activity.
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Models show a hypothetical ancient Venusian moon could reverse its orbit, break apart and disappear through tidal evolution.
SpaceTidal forces may have doomed an ancient moon around VenusJoshua Shavit
JWST detected CO₂ and icy dust around Centaur 450P/LONEOS, revealing how a frozen outer solar system body may become comet-like.
SpaceJWST detected an icy world beyond Jupiter transforming into a cometJoseph Shavit
Ancient DNA shows the American “cheetah” was a puma relative, while Yukon fossils reveal a surprising diet linked to fish.
DiscoveriesAncient DNA rewrites the story of the extinct North America ‘Cheetah’Joshua Shavit
Researchers observed bright flares of X-ray emissions, produced as gas falls into a supermassive black hole.
SpaceAstronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black holeJoseph Shavit
Women near ovulation showed more interest in visible luxury goods, but the effect depended on whether others could notice them.
HealthStudy finds a surprising link between fertility and a women’s desire for luxuryRebecca Shavit
Artistic interpretation of the distant planetary system PDS 70. Possible exocomets around PDS 70 may reveal how giant planets send icy bodies and water toward regions where rocky worlds form.
SpaceAstronomers spot signs of comets transporting water to a young solar system PDS 70Joseph Shavit
MIT physicists find recoil and fermion statistics prevent a proposed radioactive condensate from producing a neutrino laser.
DiscoveriesMIT physicists show why a laser made of neutrinos is impossibleJoseph Shavit
Genetic evidence links greater GLP-1 receptor activity to 7% higher odds of male-pattern hair loss in susceptible men.
HealthGenetic study links GLP-1 drugs to higher risk of male-pattern baldnessJoshua Shavit
Genetic risk beyond APOE was linked to cognition, hippocampal volume, amyloid and tau across several ancestry groups.
HealthNew Alzheimer’s genetic score improves risk prediction across ancestry groupsRebecca Shavit
Solar Orbiter found a sharp change in heavy-ion composition inside the Sun’s vast heliospheric current sheet.
SpaceESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals how the Sun’s corona transforms into solar windJoseph Shavit
A silicon-photonic processor captured energy levels, a symmetry transition and topological behavior using one spectroscopy method.
InnovationsQuantum chip opens new way to read complex quantum systemsShy Cohen
JWST found four candidate pairs of little red dots that may reveal how rapidly growing black holes merged in the early universe.
SpaceJWST finds mysterious red objects pairing up in the early universeJoseph Shavit
Campi Flegrei’s crust is weakening as uplift and earthquakes continue, but current monitoring does not point to an imminent eruption.
Green ImpactAlmost 500 years after its last eruption, Italy’s supervolcano is growing restlessJoseph Shavit
A new interferometer directly measured the quantum phase of free fall, matching a prediction tied to Einstein’s equivalence principle.
DiscoveriesA falling quantum object just passed a century-old test of Einstein’s gravityJoshua Shavit
Nanoscale imaging shows ice can form across flat microcline surfaces without relying only on cracks or step edges.
DiscoveriesAtomic images reveal why one common mineral is superior at producing iceRebecca Shavit
Star formation plunged over 4.5 billion years, but cosmic neutral hydrogen barely changed, pointing to a different bottleneck.
SpaceThe universe still has plenty of hydrogen, so why is it making fewer stars?Joseph Shavit