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Women near ovulation showed more interest in visible luxury goods, but the effect depended on whether others could notice them.
Designer logos became more appealing near peak fertility in three studies exploring biology, visibility and consumer behavior.
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Artistic interpretation of the distant planetary system PDS 70. Possible exocomets around PDS 70 may reveal how giant planets send icy bodies and water toward regions where rocky worlds form.
SpaceAstronomers spot signs of comets transporting water to a young solar system PDS 70Joseph Shavit
MIT physicists find recoil and fermion statistics prevent a proposed radioactive condensate from producing a neutrino laser.
DiscoveriesMIT physicists show why a laser made of neutrinos is impossibleJoseph Shavit
Genetic evidence links greater GLP-1 receptor activity to 7% higher odds of male-pattern hair loss in susceptible men.
HealthGenetic study links GLP-1 drugs to higher risk of male-pattern baldnessJoshua Shavit
Genetic risk beyond APOE was linked to cognition, hippocampal volume, amyloid and tau across several ancestry groups.
HealthNew Alzheimer’s genetic score improves risk prediction across ancestry groupsRebecca Shavit
Solar Orbiter found a sharp change in heavy-ion composition inside the Sun’s vast heliospheric current sheet.
SpaceESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals how the Sun’s corona transforms into solar windJoseph Shavit
A silicon-photonic processor captured energy levels, a symmetry transition and topological behavior using one spectroscopy method.
InnovationsQuantum chip opens new way to read complex quantum systemsShy Cohen
JWST found four candidate pairs of little red dots that may reveal how rapidly growing black holes merged in the early universe.
SpaceJWST finds mysterious red objects pairing up in the early universeJoseph Shavit
Campi Flegrei’s crust is weakening as uplift and earthquakes continue, but current monitoring does not point to an imminent eruption.
Green ImpactAlmost 500 years after its last eruption, Italy’s supervolcano is growing restlessJoseph Shavit
A new interferometer directly measured the quantum phase of free fall, matching a prediction tied to Einstein’s equivalence principle.
DiscoveriesA falling quantum object just passed a century-old test of Einstein’s gravityJoshua Shavit
Nanoscale imaging shows ice can form across flat microcline surfaces without relying only on cracks or step edges.
DiscoveriesAtomic images reveal why one common mineral is superior at producing iceRebecca Shavit
Star formation plunged over 4.5 billion years, but cosmic neutral hydrogen barely changed, pointing to a different bottleneck.
SpaceThe universe still has plenty of hydrogen, so why is it making fewer stars?Joseph Shavit
Artist concept of Mars's warm southern interior. Mars’s southern mantle may be 200 to 400°C hotter than the north, revealing a deep divide beneath the planet’s surface.
SpaceMars’s mantle may be hundreds of degrees hotter beneath one hemisphereJoseph Shavit
Ghost archaic ancestry reveals DNA from two unknown human lineages still carried by people around the world.
HealthTwo unknown human ancestors still live in our DNAJoshua Shavit
NIST physicists John Bollinger and Matt Affolter adjust a laser system used to trap beryllium ions, creating crystals that could help uncover elusive dark matter.
InnovationsNIST scientists invent a quantum crystal detector to hunt for dark matterJoseph Shavit
A buried Wash volcanic complex may be the source of Kinnekulle ash spread across northern Europe 454 million years ago.
Green ImpactAncient English supervolcano blasted ash across northern Europe 454 million years agoJoshua Shavit
The LUX-ZEPLIN main detector, pictured here in a surface lab before installation underground at Sanford Lab, saw a surprising event in its search for dark matter.
DiscoveriesLUX-ZEPLIN detector makes surprising discovery in search for dark matterShy Cohen