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A study links Van Gogh’s Starry Night to a July 1889 dawn sky, but the proposed match does not settle the painting’s June date.
Researchers link the Moon, Venus and stars in Van Gogh’s Starry Night to a July 1889 dawn, raising questions about its established June painting date.
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PPPL simulations use molecular chemistry to identify promising diamond qubit candidates containing boron and oxygen.
DiscoveriesScientists can now predict qubit behavior faster and more accuratelyShy Cohen
WSU researchers identified how extracellular ISG15 strengthens cellular defenses against RSV, offering a possible antiviral target.
HealthResearchers find a new way to supercharge the body’s natural antiviral defensesMac Oliveau
Fossils and climate models suggest warm refuges helped crocodile relatives survive the asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs.
DiscoveriesScientists discover how crocodiles survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaursRebecca Shavit
Models of early tetrapod neck mobility suggest head–shoulder separation preceded flexible necks, challenging a longstanding hypothesis.
DiscoveriesScientists discover why animals evolved necks, and surprisingly it wasn’t to turn their headsJoshua Shavit
A solar-like black hole eruption in NGC 3783 links X-ray timing and a fast wind to magnetic reconnection.
SpaceScientists find evidence of a solar storm near a supermassive black holeJoseph Shavit
Hubble links stronger galactic winds to less escaping ionizing light, challenging a key idea about cosmic reionization.
SpaceGalactic winds from exploding stars may block radiation that helped transform the early universeJoseph Shavit
Water ice loses cubic symmetry near 222 gigapascals, revealing a structural transition with possible relevance to planetary interiors.
SpaceUNLV scientists test water to levels beyond Earth-like conditionsRebecca Shavit
Simulations strengthen the case for hydrogen escaping Earth’s core by testing an alternative explanation for unusual volcanic rocks.
Green ImpactEarth’s core may be leaking hydrogen into the mantle and its volcanic rocksJoshua Shavit
Euclid discovered comet C/2026 S1 in galaxy survey images, testing a detection process that could help future comet missions.
SpaceUniversity of Helsinki student finds a previously unknown comet in Euclid’s imagesJoseph Shavit
An artist’s impression of Gomez’s Hamburger shows gas and dust rotating around a young star in distinct layers, as mapped by ALMA at millimeter wavelengths.
SpaceALMA observatory maps a cosmic ‘hamburger’ that may be building a giant planetJoseph Shavit
Anechoic chambers eliminate echoes, stripping away the sound cues the brain relies on to judge space and surroundings.
HealthThis is what 10 minutes of silence can do to the human brainJoseph Shavit
Sunset over Bolotana, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia.
HealthThe Sardinian village of Bolotana may be a new blue zone for womenRebecca Shavit
Copper-oxide superconductivity gains a magnetic explanation, but the highest transition temperatures still need another ingredient.
DiscoveriesScientists may have found the key to one of quantum physics’ biggest mysteries: superconductivityJoseph Shavit
A bacterial compound changes how Candida uses glucose, weakening a shape shift linked to dangerous infections.
HealthScientists discover a bacterial molecule that tricks deadly fungi into starvingJoshua Shavit
Pixel Cake. A layered confection composed of modular edible units arranged through computational design and assembled by hand. The work illustrates how artistic meaning can emerge through the interplay of digital organization, material transformation, and embodied experience, rather than residing solely in the finished object.
AIThe age of AI is forcing humanity to rethink what it means to be creativeShy Cohen
Ten-minute NASA satellite scans help scientists investigate how lightning produces pollution and changes atmospheric chemistry.
Green ImpactNASA satellite tracks the pollution lightning leaves behindJoshua Shavit