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King’s College London scientists found urolithin A improved heart relaxation in preclinical tests.
Urolithin A heart failure research points to a new pathway for improving heart relaxation in a hard-to-treat condition.
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Wind reshapes the timing of odor whiffs, potentially giving animals clues about where a scent originated.
DiscoveriesNew physics explains how odor changes on its journey through the airJoshua Shavit
Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice since 1979, adding about 3.1 centimeters to global seas.
Green ImpactGreenland and Antarctica have lost more than 11 trillion tons of ice since 1979Rebecca Shavit
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently observed IC 348, a star-forming region just 1,000 light-years away from Earth. Webb's sharp vision revealed tiny brown dwarfs, some just twice Jupiter's mass, and young stars ejecting powerful jets crashing into surrounding gas and dust.
SpaceWebb finds brown dwarfs barely twice Jupiter’s mass, challenging star-formation modelsJoseph Shavit
A physicist outlines how laser-driven nanocraft could someday reach a nearby black hole and test gravity directly.
SpaceScientists outline how spacecraft could reach a nearby black hole within a centuryJoseph Shavit
ETH researchers tracked brain activity as strangers from different age groups met repeatedly to draw together.
HealthDrawing together reveals how young and old brains build connectionJoshua Shavit
Scientists name seven new diamond frogs in Madagascar, raising the genus to 27 species and revealing urgent conservation risks.
DiscoveriesSeven new diamond frog species reveal Madagascar’s hidden biodiversityJoseph Shavit
Across 4,500 years, a kiss has served as affection, agreement, social ritual, moral offense and unwanted contact.
DiscoveriesThe law of kissing has changed dramatically across 4,500 yearsRebecca Shavit
Visualization of the simulation by ATERUI III showing a rapidly growing black hole surrounded by gas. Red indicates areas of higher temperature.
SpaceSupercomputer simulations may finally explain Webb’s mysterious Little Red DotsJoseph Shavit
Elias 2-24 b is less than 1 million years old, challenging models of how quickly giant planets can form far from their stars.
SpaceAstronomers discover a baby planet less than 1 million years oldJoseph Shavit
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator in the tunnel at CERN. ATLAS finds strong evidence that Z bosons from Higgs decays remain quantum entangled at extreme LHC energies.
DiscoveriesPhysicists find Einstein’s ‘spooky’ quantum effect inside Higgs boson decaysShy Cohen
Webb caught opposite changes in Chariklo’s two narrow rings, challenging the idea that small-body rings remain stable.
SpaceJWST finds evidence that Chariklo’s rings are changing faster than astronomers expectedJoseph Shavit
Plasmonic nano-antennas altered a protein’s light emission and response speed without changing its genetic code.
DiscoveriesGold nanostars make voltage-sensing proteins brighter and several times fasterJoshua Shavit
A museum fossil named after the Wamanda people is forcing scientists to reconsider the age of Tanzania’s earliest dinosaur candidates.
Discoveries240 million-year-old tusked herbivore fossil upends the timeline of early dinosaur evolutionRebecca Shavit
Africa’s crust is thinning beneath Turkana, where tectonic change may also explain the region’s remarkable human fossil record.
Green ImpactAfrica’s Turkana Rift has entered a critical stage of continental breakupJoseph Shavit
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai-volcanic eruption on 15 january 2022. Image taken from a video of the eruption.
DiscoveriesHunga Tonga’s record-breaking eruption removed 900 metric tons of methane per dayJoshua Shavit
Scientists say a massive lake system in South America could become a global laboratory for studying climate change and pollution.
Green ImpactSouth American coastal lakes could transform climate change researchRebecca Shavit