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The shape of WASP-17b’s atmosphere mapped using transmission strings. The planet has a broad banded jet around the equator with vast wind speeds which transport material and heat from the permanently irradiated dayside to the permanently shadowed nightside.
Transmission strings reveal temperature differences around WASP-17b’s atmosphere, adding detail beyond an average planetary spectrum.
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DiscoveriesThe Odyssey: Ancient graves in southern Italy reveal how Greek heroes and goods crossed culturesJoshua Shavit
SN 2018zd offers evidence for an electron-capture supernova, but competing studies leave its mechanism and the Crab’s origin debated.
SpaceUnusual supernova solves 1,000 year mystery revealing a third way stars might explodeJoseph Shavit
Brief contact with healthy genetic clones helped bleached coral fragments recover in lab tests, revealing a possible restoration pathway.
Green ImpactScientists discover a way to reverse coral bleaching, one of the ocean’s biggest environmental threatsJoshua Shavit
A giant fungus from China's Yunnan forests reveals a new fungal family, unusual reproductive structures and clues to its evolution.
DiscoveriesScientists discover ‘D-Rex,’ a giant fungus with a 65-million-year evolutionary historyJoseph Shavit
Simulated atmospheric aging raised aircraft-particle oxidative potential six- to sevenfold, highlighting changes beyond fresh exhaust.
Green ImpactAircraft exhaust particles may become more harmful over time
Population models reveal regional decline and coastal growth after Japan’s Kikai-Akahoya eruption about 7,300 years ago.
Green ImpactAncient volcanic eruption brought population collapse and coastal growth to JapanJoseph Shavit
A reef discovered off Cape York in 2020 rises more than 1,640 feet. Later records clarify its naming history and exploration context.
Green ImpactAustralia’s 1,640-foot tall coral reef reveals a hidden ocean landscape taller than the Empire State BuildingJoseph Shavit
Simulations explain how magnetic-field draping and reconnection shape uneven waves at Earth’s magnetic shield.
SpaceEarth’s tilted magnetic field changes where space waves formJoseph Shavit
A SwRI-led model filters false far-side solar detections and improves magnetic maps, with a measured trade-off in missed active regions.
SpaceImproved magnetic field maps bring the Sun’s hidden hemisphere into focusJoshua Shavit
Electron microscopy tracks dark wave singularities moving faster than light, without carrying energy or information at that speed.
DiscoveriesEinstein was right: Darkness can travel faster than light without breaking relativityJoseph Shavit
DNA Typewriter reconstructs a 1.28-million-cell lineage tree in a mouse embryo, revealing ancestry and unequal developmental contributions.
HealthScientists construct a ‘family tree’ containing 1.28 million cells from a single embryoJoseph Shavit
A major review finds stronger human climate fingerprints across the atmosphere and oceans, reinforcing evidence available in 2009.
Green ImpactClimate change models and measurements provide clear evidence of human influenceJoshua Shavit
Octopus, squid and cuttlefish DNA contacts reveal stable domains and changing loops, offering clues to nervous-system evolution.
DiscoveriesNew DNA findings may explain how octopuses evolved complex brainsRebecca Shavit
Artist’s impression of WISE 0855, a cold, free-floating world about 7.5 light-years away. Webb observations provide evidence of changing water-cloud thickness and atmospheric chemistry beneath the clouds.
SpaceJWST discovers the first shifting water clouds on a planet outside of our solar systemJoseph Shavit
Recent research links ancient kissing records with primate evolution, grooming and microbial exchange, while leaving its origins uncertain.
DiscoveriesKissing may be millions of years older than its earliest written recordsJoseph Shavit
Cell movement activates a new biomaterial that speeds wound repair while using far lower doses of healing proteins.
HealthCell-activated wound dressing releases healing proteins in preclinical testsRebecca Shavit