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Astronomers find BD+05 4868 Ab, a disintegrating planet with massive dusty tails
A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the brutal heat of its host star. The planet,…
Joseph Shavit
Over the past 72 years, China’s Green Great Wall has turned vast stretches of desert into flourishing ecosystems, tackling both desertification and rural poverty.
Green ImpactThe Green Great Wall: China’s 47 year effort at combating climate and land degradationJoshua Shavit
Physicists have successfully built a "black hole bomb" analog in the lab
SpaceScientists create world’s first black hole bomb in the labJoshua Shavit
Strong CIO leadership boosts IT-business alignment through collaboration and knowledge sharing, driving company success.
Global GoodNew study reveals leadership tactics that improve teamwork between employeesMac Oliveau
New research finds aging unleashes a new type of fat-producing stem cell, explaining why belly fat builds up in middle age
HealthNew study explains why people gain stubborn belly fat in middle ageRebecca Shavit
Scientists have discovered the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate, which once stretched across 15 million square miles.
DiscoveriesAncient tectonic ‘mega plate’ rediscovered after 20 million yearsJoseph Shavit
Stewart Mallory, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at Penn State, leads a research group that studies active matter, specifically the collective behavior of self-propelled microscopic particles.
InnovationsMicroscopic robots are transforming health, technology, and the environmentJoshua Shavit
At Panchsheel Inter College in Uttar Pradesh, students are attending classes in a newly constructed school wing made not of concrete or standard brick, but of an innovative material derived from sugarcane.
Green ImpactSchool made from sugarcane waste signals a new era in sustainable constructionRebecca Shavit
A new study finds smoking in early adulthood can lead to lower income and shorter careers
HealthSmoking linked to lower earnings and shorter careers, study findsJoseph Shavit
A newly found dormant black hole, detected just 800 million years after the Big Bang, challenges what scientists thought about cosmic growth.
SpaceMassive black hole found taking a ‘nap’ after overeatingJoshua Shavit
Israeli scientists identified TRIM63 as a major gene linked to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, offering new hope for early diagnosis and treatment.
HealthNew gene discovery could transform screening and treatment for heart diseaseJoseph Shavit
A recreation of what Thonis-Heracleion may have looked like.
Discoveries2,500-year-old lost city of Thonis-Heracleion discovered in EgyptRebecca Shavit
Treating high cholesterol quickly and aggressively after a heart attack may help prevent thousands of new heart attacks and deaths worldwide.
HealthGiving patients these two drugs after a heart attack could save thousands of livesRebecca Shavit
Plasma Jet Engines Could Revolutionize Aviation and End Fossil Fuel Dependency
Green ImpactNext-generation jet engine converts electricity directly into thrustJoshua Shavit
New study shows smart tree planting helps cities beat the heat without raising nighttime temperatures.
Green ImpactUrban Heat Crisis: How Strategic Tree Planting Makes a DifferenceMac Oliveau
TOI-715 b, a super-Earth discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), resides 137 light-years away.
SpaceScientists find Earth-like exoplanets to be common in the universeJoshua Shavit
Scientists at Cambridge have created a simple urine test to detect early signs of lung cancer
HealthResearchers develop urine test for early detection of lung cancerRebecca Shavit