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Ancient crust buried beneath modern mountains suggests Gondwana once contained about 80% of Earth's continental landmass.

Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth’s surface

Isotope mapping reveals millions of square kilometers of lost Gondwanan crust hidden beneath Asia, Europe and North America.

Joshua ShavitupdaPublished Sep 13, 2026 4:07 PM PDT

Solar models suggest the young Sun may have swallowed a super-Earth whose chemical fingerprint could remain inside it today.

Space A missing super-Earth may have been swallowed up by the Sun billions of years ago Joseph Shavit

King’s College London scientists found urolithin A improved heart relaxation in preclinical tests.

Health Natural compound linked to pomegranates targets a hard-to-treat form of heart failure Joshua Shavit

A new SETI framework proposes searching Moon dust for microscopic technological debris that may have crossed the galaxy billions of years ago.

Space Alien technology could be hiding as microscopic dust on the Moon Joseph Shavit

New simulations suggest geological strength let a hot Theia produce an almost intact proto-Moon within hours of its collision with Earth.

Space The Moon may have formed almost intact within hours of Theia smashing into Earth Joseph Shavit

A 21.9-million-year-old volcanic blanket preserved clues showing part of the Andes may have risen slowly for millions of years.

Green Impact A giant Pompeii-scale eruption buried an ancient Andes landscape and preserved it for 22 million years Joshua Shavit

Ohio State researchers found that low-intensity electric fields reduced tumor growth and lung spread in models of triple-negative breast cancer.

Health Wearable electric field therapy slows aggressive breast cancer, study finds Joseph Shavit

Lei Du and Tangyou Huang, Chalmers University of Technology.

Discoveries Scientists find a way to run error-protected quantum operations 1,000 times faster Joshua Shavit

Around the SKA telescope, old star stories survive through practical knowledge, new meanings and changing community traditions.

Space Before MeerKAT, South Africa’s Karoo telescope had its own ways of reading the stars Joseph Shavit

Captured within this image is the newly discovered galaxy proto-supercluster named COSMOS-z3.1-A.

Space A cosmic giant 5,000 times the Milky Way’s mass emerges from the early Universe Joseph Shavit

Hebrew University researchers found that tomato drought resilience may depend on when plants use water, not just how much.

Green Impact Tomato study finds a ‘Golden Hour’ that could help crops survive drought Joshua Shavit

Museum bones holding tiny scraps of DNA were enough to rebuild two missing branches of the Galápagos tortoise family tree.

Discoveries Tiny DNA fragments reveal two extinct Galápagos tortoise lineages Rebecca Shavit

A new model reveals how strongly Venus’s mysterious cloud absorber must block ultraviolet light, sharply narrowing possible candidates.

Space Scientists identify a mysterious substance darkening Venus’s clouds Joseph Shavit

Ancient Sulawesi teeth and arecoline residues suggest humans were habitually using psychoactive betel nuts up to 25,000 years ago.

Health 25,000-year-old teeth may reveal the world’s earliest evidence of drug use Joshua Shavit

Gaia measurements show massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud moving apart, suggesting the Large Magellanic Cloud may be disrupting it.

Space The Large Magellanic Cloud may be tearing its smaller neighbor apart Joseph Shavit

WashU Medicine researchers found that laser brain tumor therapy outcomes improve when tumors are smaller and more fully treated.

Health Minimally invasive laser surgery may offer new hope for brain tumor patients Joshua Shavit

Two experiments used entangled photons to demonstrate anonymous electronic voting without requiring a trusted central election authority.

Discoveries Entangled photons could make electronic voting truly anonymous and more secure Shy Cohen