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Scientists name seven new diamond frogs in Madagascar, raising the genus to 27 species and revealing urgent conservation risks.
Scientists identify seven new Madagascar diamond frog species, highlighting hidden biodiversity and urgent conservation needs.
Joseph Shavitupda
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
Tiny pH-sensitive containers helped scratched water-based coatings keep corrosion at bay during demanding saltwater tests.
InnovationsSmart nanocoating slows rust corrosion by more than 600 timesRebecca Shavit
Mercury may have shrunk up to 30% more than estimated because crater debris hides wrinkles created as the planet cooled.
SpaceMercury’s cratered surface has been hiding evidence of a much smaller planetJoseph Shavit
Tiny changes in the Moon’s orbit could reveal gravitational waves in a frequency range that existing observatories struggle to detect.
SpaceScientists find a new way to search for gravitational waves using the MoonJoseph Shavit
A million-person Moon city could exhaust even a generous lunar water supply in about a century despite 98% recycling.
SpaceThe moon could support permanent settlements, just not the giant cities Elon Musk envisionsJoshua Shavit
New models show how a hypothetical Venus moon could have spiraled inward and disappeared without another catastrophic impact.
SpaceVenus may have swallowed its own moon, new models findsJoseph Shavit
Fourteen Spanish tail vertebrae reveal a European Diplodocus and strengthen evidence for Jurassic trans-Atlantic dinosaur dispersal.
DiscoveriesFirst Diplodocus found outside North America rewrites dinosaur migration historyRebecca Shavit