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JWST found a massive early galaxy with almost no rotation, challenging standard ideas of how giant ellipticals form. Image is actually Giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 in Fornax Cluster, used for illustrative purposes only.
A massive galaxy seen just 1.8 billion years after the Big Bang already looks like a slow rotator from the modern universe.
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AI analysis of serial face photos linked faster facial aging in cancer patients to worse survival outcomes.
AIAI tool tracks facial aging, and helps doctors gauge cancer riskJoshua Shavit
New perovskite diode reaches 26.7% solar efficiency and 31% LED efficiency in one device, pointing to self-charging displays.
Green ImpactPerovskite breakthrough brings self-charging screens closer to realityJoshua Shavit
In roughly six months, he lost nearly everything.
Good NewsUber kindness, white settlement police, Parkinson’s guitar therapy, and more good news todayAmyn Bhai
AI-written papers and reviews are rising fast, and one major journal says they are straining peer review and lowering writing quality.
AIAI is flooding peer review, and editors say it’s making science harder to judgeShy Cohen
This artist’s impression displays TRAPPIST-1 and its planets reflected in a surface. The potential for water on each of the worlds is also represented by the frost, water pools, and steam surrounding the scene.
SpaceAstronomers map the climate of Earth-like exoplanets for the first timeJoseph Shavit
Stem-like CAR T cells produced strong low-dose responses and less severe toxicity in post-transplant blood cancers.
HealthStudy finds low-dose CAR T therapy can drive complete cancer remissionMac Oliveau
New tool tracks where any place on Earth sat up to 320 million years ago, helping decode ancient climate and fossil records.
Green ImpactNew tool tracks lost continents and moving plates over the last 320 million yearsRebecca Shavit
Artistic reconstructions by M. Hattori illustrating oblique views of the dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) morphologies. The sanctacaridid-like morphology of the posteriormost body region is speculative.
DiscoveriesSpider and horseshoe crab relatives emerged 20 million years earlier than scientists thoughtHannah Shavit-Weiner
Ancient Amazonian dark earth boosted young tree growth and reshaped root microbes in a Brazil field study.
Green ImpactAmazonian dark earth increases tree diameter by up to 88%Rebecca Shavit
Artist’s impression of Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the nuclear-powered spaceship NASA says it is sending to Mars.
SpaceNASA’s first nuclear-powered spacecraft is heading to Mars, and its bringing helicoptersShy Cohen
Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch gives 5-year-old Jack a spacesuit during a CBS News town hall on May 1, 2026.
SpaceArtemis II astronauts welcome a 5-year-old space fan to the teamAmyn Bhai
Human evolution is still unfolding through disease, diet, technology, genetic editing, and even the pressures of life in space.
HealthThe next phase of human evolution is already underwayJoseph Shavit
Astronomers studying the interstellar comet found that its water is packed with an unusually heavy form of hydrogen called deuterium.
Space3I/ATLAS had a far colder birthplace than our Solar SystemJoseph Shavit
Vivek Shenoy, Eduardo D. Glandt President’s Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), at left, walks through some of the mathematics behind mollifier layers, with doctoral candidate Vinayak Vinayak, at right.
AIPenn engineers use AI to solve some of science’s most difficult math problemsShy Cohen
Harvard researchers mapped smell receptors in mice, showing the nose is far more organized than scientists believed.
HealthHarvard researchers discover how the human nose decodes smellsHannah Shavit-Weiner
Study finds butterflies and moths reused the same wing-pattern genes for 120 million years, pointing to predictable evolution.
DiscoveriesEvolution has used the same genetic ‘cheat sheet’ for over 120 million yearsHannah Shavit-Weiner