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Astronomers found the largest known water reservoir around a distant quasar, revealing extreme conditions in the early universe.
A giant water reservoir around a distant quasar shows how black holes shaped gas in the early universe.
Joseph Shavitupda
Researchers have created a living gel packed with skin cells that can be injected or 3D printed into grafts. The technology may help regenerate healthy skin and improve treatment for severe burns and chronic wounds.
HealthScientists 3D print living skin that helps grow blood vesselsShy Cohen
A global study using smartphones and wearable devices found that everyday physical activity improves mood and energy levels.
HealthMassive smartphone study finds everyday movement boosts mood and energyMac Oliveau
This natural-color image of Ganymede was captured by the Galileo spacecraft during its first flyby of the moon.
SpaceNew analysis reveals why Ganymede has a magnetic field when other moons do notJoshua Shavit
A decades-old asthma medication called formoterol may help reverse MASH, a severe fatty liver disease tied to diabetes and obesity.
HealthCommon asthma drug may reverse dangerous fatty liver diseaseHannah Shavit-Weiner
Researchers have identified a previously unknown brain rhythm in the thalamus that appears only during wakefulness and REM sleep, offering a potential biological signature of consciousness and opening new possibilities for neurological treatments.
HealthResearchers may have discovered the key to understanding human consciousnessRebecca Shavit
Antarctica’s first amber reveals a 90-million-year-old conifer rainforest that once grew near the South Pole.
Green ImpactFirst-ever amber discovery in Antarctica reveals lost prehistoric rainforestJoseph Shavit
Researchers at Umeå University created TriPcides, a powerful new synthetic antibiotic class that kills MRSA and dormant bacteria.
HealthNew synthetic antibiotics could defeat MRSA and prevent relapsing infectionsMac Oliveau
Alaska rock records show ocean deoxygenation began nearly 8 million years before the end-Triassic mass extinction.
DiscoveriesAncient oceans started to suffocate 8 million years before the Triassic mass extinctionRebecca Shavit
Physicists derived an exact limit on how much information a noisy channel could send backward through time.
SpaceSending short messages back in time may not break the laws of physicsShy Cohen
Scientists have discovered a new 500-million-year-old arthropod fossil in Canada, challenging the idea that late Cambrian life experienced a major biodiversity decline.
Discoveries500-million-year-old fossil rewrites a missing chapter of Earth’s historyHannah Shavit-Weiner
MAVEN data shows Mars can redirect plasma inside its ionosphere during solar storms, revealing a new space weather effect.
SpaceMars’ atmosphere is changing how scientists see unmagnetized planetsJoshua Shavit
A new method uses dust rings in protoplanetary disks to estimate the masses of hidden newborn planets.
SpaceAstronomers can now measure newborn planet mass from dusty stellar ringsJoseph Shavit
MIT researchers developed a low-temperature process that extracts battery-grade lithium from spodumene with far less waste and energy.
Green ImpactNew low-temperature process extracts battery-grade lithium with far less waste and energyRebecca Shavit
Reconstruction of Labrujasuchus expectatus, a new species of Shuvosauridae from Late Triassic rocks of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.
DiscoveriesTriassic fossil reveals a beaked, bipedal reptile that looked like an ostrich dinosaurHannah Shavit-Weiner
Genetic information in the DNA and modifications, such as DNA methylation, define the epigenetic landscape and phenotype and show both Mendelian and non-Mendelian heredity.
HealthScientists find hundreds of inherited DNA patterns that defy classic Mendelian geneticsRebecca Shavit
A new study reveals how antibodies and T cells helped a small group of people control HIV for years after stopping medication.
HealthScientists discover how some people control HIV without daily medicationMac Oliveau