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Webb and Spitzer study 21 extreme debris disks, linking dust minerals to possible giant impacts and changing planetary orbits.
Dust around other stars offers clues to collisions involving planetary embryos and the disruption of established systems.
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A theoretical study explores how a hidden dimension could shape primordial black holes and a possible high-energy neutrino connection.
SpaceFive-dimensional black holes offer a possible explanation for dark matter and neutrinosJoseph Shavit
An ancient DNA review favors migration into the Americas 20,000 to 14,000 years ago, while leaving earlier arrivals unresolved.
DiscoveriesAncient DNA suggests humans reached America far earlier than previously thoughtJoshua Shavit
A 165-million-year-old Megacauda sungei fossil reveals swimming adaptations and evidence of an early mammalian swallowing system.
DiscoveriesThe Jurassic Period’s ‘top predator’ was smaller than a house catJoseph Shavit
PTB researcher Vishal Lal with the PTB's nuclear clock experiment.
InnovationsScientists demonstrate sustained operation of the world’s first self-regulating nuclear clockJoseph Shavit
Injuries in 18 of 46 skulls from Abydos strengthen evidence of retainer sacrifice around Egypt’s First Dynasty royal burials.
DiscoveriesAncient skull fractures strengthen evidence of human sacrifice around Egypt’s royal burialsJoshua Shavit
Physicists Darius Köhnke (left) and Hans-Christian Ahlswede in front of the experimental setup they used to generate three-dimensional light fields.
InnovationsPhysicists use 3D light pulses to unlock new electron quantum statesJoshua Shavit
Unusual elements and a 4.4-day brightness cycle suggest a planet formed from material shed by the white dwarf HS 0209+0832.
SpaceAstronomers discover a ‘phoenix planet’ reborn from the ashes of a dead starJoseph Shavit
Brain-IT reconstructs viewed images from fMRI data with improved detail and one-hour calibration, but dreams remain beyond its tested scope.
AINew AI can reconstruct what you’re looking at by reading brain activityShy Cohen
A fragmentary hand stencil preserved in a limestone cave on Indonesia’s Muna Island was found alongside much more recent rock art.
Discoveries67,800 year-old cave wall hand stencil offers clues to Australia’s first settlementRebecca Shavit
AI-designed PiggyBac proteins improved DNA insertion in cultured cells, expanding gene-editing tools while safety questions remain.
AIScientists use generative AI to build better proteins for editing DNAShy Cohen
A study of 4,523 adults links higher BMI at dementia onset to lower mortality, without showing that weight gain improves survival.
HealthHigher body weight linked to lower risk of death from dementiaJoshua Shavit
Gemini North images reveal chains of gas knots in Pa 30, a supernova remnant linked to 1181 with a surviving central star.
SpaceCosmic ‘pearls’ emerge around the surviving star of an ancient supernovaJoseph Shavit
Engineers 3D printed recycled PEKK and simulated moon dust into lattices and a wrench, testing a route toward lunar manufacturing.
SpaceRecycled plastic and moon dust become 3D-printed parts and structures for future lunar missionsJoshua Shavit
Recent lightsail experiments reveal progress toward interstellar travel, while distance, radiation and energy remain major hurdles.
SpaceInterstellar travel faces steep hurdles, but recent research is paving a new path to the starsJoseph Shavit
A new scientific perspective traces quantum mechanics from early theory to lasers, computing and gravitational-wave detection, with limits intact.
DiscoveriesFrom Schrödinger’s cat to LIGO: quantum physics turned strange ideas into useful technologyShy Cohen
A 2.6-million-year-old jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region extends Paranthropus’ known range north by more than 1,000 kilometers.
Discoveries2.6-million-year-old jaw fossil challenges long-held ideas about early homininsJoshua Shavit