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A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image with box added to show location of the globular cluster stellar stream.
A faint stellar ribbon around an ultra-diffuse galaxy may open a new window on the structure of invisible dark matter.
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Researchers discovered Laurinque elenya, a golden tree-like coral off Costa Rica that represents a new deep-sea coral family.
DiscoveriesGolden deep-sea coral off Costa Rica adds a new branch to the tree of lifeRebecca Shavit
A nationwide Swedish study found newer blood thinners were linked with slower cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients with atrial fibrillation.
HealthNewer blood thinners linked to slower Alzheimer’s declineMac Oliveau
IceCube at the South pole with the Milky Way in the background.
SpaceThe Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino imageJoseph Shavit
New melting experiments confirm that diamond floats in metallic liquid carbon at high pressures, much like ice cubes float in a glass of water.
SpaceDiamond’s extreme melting point could unlock more fusion energyJoshua Shavit
Space habitat design could shape astronaut mental health on long missions by influencing sleep, privacy, connection, and homesickness.
SpaceSpace habitat design could shape astronaut mental health on Mars missionsJoseph Shavit
Sticky hairs, digestive enzymes, and labeled nitrogen reveal how an alpine flower turns insects into nutrients.
Green Impact150-year-old Darwin mystery solved by a carnivorous alpine flowerRebecca Shavit
UCLA’s lying mirror optical technology uses structured light to replace many different input images with the same deceptive output.
InnovationsUCLA engineers build a ‘lying mirror’ that displays a fake reflected imageJoshua Shavit
Theia remnants inside Earth may survive as two giant mantle blobs left by the collision that created the Moon.
SpaceScientists discover remnants of Theia, the planet that collided with Earth 4.5 billion years agoJoseph Shavit
The St. Mary Magdalene Flood 1342 was part of 16 major European floods that struck within less than two years.
Green ImpactEurope’s catastrophic ‘flood of the millennium’ in 1342 wasn’t a single eventJoshua Shavit
The health risks of mummified remains sold online include fungal growth, toxic preservatives and unsafe shipping practices.
HealthMummy’s curse: Mummified remains sold online may expose the public to hidden risksRebecca Shavit
A new study reveals how pupil dilation reflects brain activity that helps people adjust to surprise, reduce bias, and learn more effectively.
DiscoveriesSurprise helps people learn and think better, brain study findsMac Oliveau
"Triassic Mothers," a life reconstruction of a group of Chiniquodon theotonicus individuals, a pregnant female (left) as well as a female (right) breastfeeding few, relatively large neonates.
DiscoveriesAncient mammal ancestors gave birth to live young, 236-million-year-old fossil findsJoseph Shavit
The brain language network can be mapped from fMRI activity even while people rest or perform tasks unrelated to language.
HealthStanford researchers discover a language-specific network hidden in the human brainJoseph Shavit
Researchers developed an AI model that reads routine cancer slides to predict tumor type, TP53 mutations and survival-related outcomes.
AIAI model predicts 32 cancer tumor types from images already used in hospitalsShy Cohen
JWST detects water around IRS 3, a dying star shedding huge amounts of gas and dust near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
SpaceJWST finds water around a dying star near the Milky Way’s central black holeJoshua Shavit
A JWST black hole star candidate may explain mysterious little red dots and how massive black holes grew in the early universe.
SpaceStrange red object from the early universe could be the first ‘black hole star’Joseph Shavit