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An artist's concept of a gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf.
A Jupiter-sized world around a tiny red star is colder and chemically stranger than expected, deepening a planet-formation mystery.
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New zircon dating suggests Oklahoma’s Ames crater is about 100 million years younger than thought and may date to the Late Devonian.
SpaceOklahoma crater may be 100 million years younger than thought, shifting it toward a mass extinction eventJoseph Shavit
Ancient rocks reveal how phosphorus recycling helped sustain oxygen production during Earth’s turbulent Great Oxidation Event.
Green ImpactAncient ocean chemistry may explain how Earth kept its oxygenJoshua Shavit
Theory and later experiments keep f0(1710) among the strongest candidates for a particle built largely from gluons.
DiscoveriesPhysicists finally discover the elusive glueball, a particle made entirely of nuclear forceJoseph Shavit
Enceladus may sort and concentrate ocean chemicals into individual ice grains, potentially making rare biosignatures easier to detect.
SpaceSaturn’s moon Enceladus offers new clues in the search for alien lifeJoseph Shavit
A two-year trial found diet drinks and water supported similar weight loss, with no meaningful difference in most metabolic markers.
HealthTwo-year trial finds diet drinks perform like water for weight managementJoseph Shavit
A pressurized wind tunnel shows turbines can recover power by changing blade tip speed when they are misaligned with the wind.
Green ImpactScientists find a simple control change that could significantly boost wind turbine outputJoshua Shavit
A view of CHIME at night, with the Milky Way in the background.
SpaceCanadian radio telescope (CHIME) is turning hydrogen into a map of cosmic expansionJoshua Shavit
Chang’e-6 samples contain the first natural lunar γ-iron, a magnetic nanoparticle phase that may preserve clues to the Moon’s ancient fields.
SpaceChang’e-6 samples reveal a form of magnetic iron never before found on the MoonJoseph Shavit
A study of 489 Ice Age spear points suggests early Clovis groups conserved tools more carefully as they learned a new landscape.
DiscoveriesIce Age spears reveal how America’s earliest hunters learned to surviveJoseph Shavit
Grace Johnston led a study that manipulated hormones in a model plant species to make the plant more productive and resistant to disease.
Green ImpactScientists find a way to boost plant growth without sacrificing immunityRebecca Shavit
Black squirrels in Montreal are more common in colder, forested areas, revealing how local climate and rivers may shape urban wildlife.
DiscoveriesSquirrel colors spotlight local evolutionary changes in urban speciesRebecca Shavit
Artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole at the center of a radio galaxy launching powerful jets (shown in pink) all the way into the galaxy's CGM.
SpaceSupermassive black holes leave a glowing trail far beyond their host galaxiesJoseph Shavit
Perseverance found Jezero rocks altered by at least three water systems involving carbonates, silica and later hydrothermal fluids. This Mastcam-Z-enhanced color photo mosaic shows a butte near Jezero crater.
SpaceNASA finds a surprisingly complex history of water on ancient MarsJoseph Shavit
A gravitational tug involving Earth’s inner core may explain why the planet’s day length shifts by milliseconds over decades.
SpaceEarth’s inner core may be quietly changing the length of our daysJoshua Shavit
The 79 CE Vesuvius eruption helped scientists reduce argon-argon dating uncertainty to just 13 years for a 2,000-year-old event.
DiscoveriesThe eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocksJoshua Shavit
AI analysis of 2,057 bird species links rare bursts of body-shape evolution with periods of major climate instability.
Green ImpactClimate shifts sparked rare bursts of bird evolutionRebecca Shavit