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A Mexican axolotl in Wake Forest University biologist Josh Currie's regeneration lab.
Shared genes in three species point to a new gene therapy path for boosting limb and digit regeneration.
Hannah Shavit-Weinerupda
Long-term genome tracking shows how chronic blood cancers quietly evolve years before patients worsen.
Health25-year-long study discovers how blood cancers evolve and worsenMac Oliveau
The Milky Way is a massive, spiral-shaped collection of stars, gas, and dust that houses our own solar system. Dr Karl Fiteni (inset) led the study. Photo shows the core of the Milky Way as photographed by Joseph Caruana from Dwejra Gozo
SpaceFor the first time, astronomers identify the edge of the Milky Way’s discJoshua Shavit
Physicists found evidence that hidden quark pairs in the vacuum may shape how matter forms in high-energy collisions.
SpaceFor the first time ever, scientists create particles out of empty spaceShy Cohen
This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary deposits in the Glenelg area of Gale Crater. Gale Crater is a paleolake located close to the putative coastal shelf.
Space‘Bathtub Ring’ points to vast ancient ocean on MarsJoseph Shavit
A group of Seaman High School students did a little bit of hot-dogging with their ride to prom, convincing the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile to give them a lift.
Global GoodFamily reunion, Marshmallow’s Hope, a Wienermobile and more good news todayAmyn Bhai
New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today.
SpaceCosmic simulations reveal how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of yearsJoshua Shavit
Trapped ions already power quantum computers and the world’s most precise clocks. Now, by merging those strengths, researchers are probing something deeper: time itself behaving as a quantum superposition.
DiscoveriesBreakthrough ion clock experiments reveal that time can go quantumShy Cohen
Fossil hunting by the research team in south China.
Green ImpactScientists discover how primitive plants survived Earth’s worst mass extinctionHannah Shavit-Weiner
DNA from a Stone Age tomb near Paris points to collapse, migration and a social reset around 3000 BC.
DiscoveriesDNA evidence points to a massive stone age population collapseRebecca Shavit
Gut microbes may reveal Parkinson’s risk years before symptoms, according to new research from UCL.
HealthGut microbiome changes can signal Parkinson’s disease risk years before symptomsMac Oliveau
NASA astronaut and Boeing Crew Flight Test Pilot Suni Williams. Astronauts still grip objects as if gravity matters, even after months in space, a new study finds.
SpaceWhy do astronauts still act like gravity exists in space?Joseph Shavit
Direct lab data suggests neutron star X-ray bursts face a weaker element-building bottleneck than expected.
SpaceMississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the labJoshua Shavit
Dermcidin, a natural human peptide, may block flu infection and help explain why some people stay symptom-free.
HealthScientists discover natural molecule in the human body that protects against the fluMac Oliveau
A general view of the excavation of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov Acheulian site. (Note that the original occupation surfaces are tilted due to tectonics).
DiscoveriesAncient charcoal from Israel reveals how early humans used fireRebecca Shavit
University of Rochester optics professor Nick Vamivakas and physics Ph.D. candidate Levi Neukich perform experiments with optically levitated nanodiamonds in Wilmott Hall June 14, 2013. The process allows researchers to test fundamental physics questions related to quantum mechanics as well as provide a tool to perform high sensitivity nanoscale force sensing.
InnovationsQuantum researchers created a new kind of laser built from soundShy Cohen
The gravitational lens system JVAS B1938+666. The black ring and central dot show an infrared image of a distant galaxy distorted by gravitational lensing. The orange emission shows radio waves from the same system. The inset highlights a small "pinch" in the image caused by an additional dense object—about a million times the mass of the sun—shown as a white blob.
SpaceDense dark matter clumps link three strange objects across the universeJoseph Shavit