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A new study reveals that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet thinned rapidly between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago, then likely re-thickened by up to 100 meters, challenging standard deglaciation models and sharpening future sea level forecasts.
Study shows East Antarctica’s ice thinned rapidly, then modestly thickened, reshaping sea level and climate risk projections.
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A 67-million-year-old fish fossil preserved rare middle ear bones that amplify sound. New analyses suggest otophysan fish evolved from marine ancestors and entered freshwater at least twice, reshaping the timeline for the world’s most diverse freshwater fish group.
Discoveries67 million-year-old fossil reveals the origin of freshwater fish hearingMac Oliveau
Jessica Thompson and team members excavating and mapping the pyre.
DiscoveriesScientists discover Africa’s oldest cremation pyre revealing complex rituals from 9,500 years agoJoshua Shavit
A decade-long study of 1,051 adults over 50 used a single lower-back sensor to measure how people turn while walking down a 20-meter hallway.
HealthHow you turn while walking could signal Parkinson’s risk nearly 9 years in advanceMac Oliveau
New research finds that two massive, hot stars swept past the Sun about 4.4 million years ago, blasting nearby gas clouds with radiation and leaving a lasting imprint on the space surrounding your solar system.
SpaceTwo blazing stars once raced past the Sun and reshaped our solar systemJoseph Shavit
Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet and form an asymmetric, extended, and diffuse envelope around it. Infrared observations with the JWST satellite have enabled the observation of this phenomenon.
SpaceJWST observations reveal massive helium clouds escaping from exoplanet WASP-107 bJoseph Shavit
Professor KIM Jae Kyoung of the IBS Biomedical Mathematics Group
HealthNew study provides a key breakthrough in cancer therapy and synthetic biologyMac Oliveau
A new JNeurosci study shows that music does not boost memory in a single way. Instead, how strongly you feel the music determines whether you remember the big picture of an event or the small details, pointing toward more personalized music based memory therapies.
HealthMusic shapes your memory through emotional intensity, study findsRebecca Shavit
A soft, wireless implant developed at Northwestern University can deliver precise light patterns through the skull to activate neurons across the cortex. In mouse experiments, animals learned to recognize those patterns as meaningful signals and used them to complete tasks without relying on sight, sound, or touch. The Nature Neuroscience study points toward future brain devices that could restore lost senses, add sensory feedback to prosthetics, and deepen understanding of how perception forms.
HealthWireless implant sends information straight to the brain using lightShy Cohen
Gayani Senevirathne (left) holds the shorter, wider human pelvis, which evolved from the longer upper hipbones of primates, which Terence Capellini is displaying.
DiscoveriesScientists solve the evolutionary mystery of how humans came to walk uprightJoshua Shavit
A reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
DiscoveriesEarly hominins walked on two legs 7 million-years-ago, study findsJoseph Shavit
New radiocarbon dates show Ukraine’s mammoth bone shelters were used briefly around 18,000 years ago
DiscoveriesRadiocarbon dating finds Ukraine’s mammoth bone shelters were used 18,000 years agoJoshua Shavit
InnovationsDevice smaller than a grain of dust looks to supercharge quantum computersShy Cohen
A new study from UC San Francisco and Northwestern University finds that young indoor tanners carry more skin cell mutations than people twice their age, including changes known to seed melanoma. The work reveals that tanning beds make skin look decades older at the genetic level and strengthens calls to avoid artificial UV exposure.
HealthTanning beds turn young skin genetically old, study findsRebecca Shavit
A global team has built single-cell maps of brain activity across the day in mice, uncovering shifting networks that track fatigue and recovery with sleep. The work could guide future tests that objectively measure tiredness in people who hold safety-critical jobs.
HealthAll day brain tracking helps scientists finally decode fatigueMac Oliveau
A long-term high-fat diet can trigger liver cells to shift into a survival mode that looks more like early development than healthy adult tissue.
HealthHigh-fat diets may lead to liver cells becoming cancerousJoseph Shavit
The members of the BEC team at Columbia, from left to right: associate research scientist Ian Stevenson, doctoral student Niccolò Bigagli, doctoral student Weijun Yuan, undergraduate student Boris Bulatovic, doctoral student Siwei Zhang, and principal investigator Sebastian Will.
InnovationsScientists create Bose-Einstein condensate leading to a new fifth state of matterJoshua Shavit