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Brief contact with healthy genetic clones helped bleached coral fragments recover in lab tests, revealing a possible restoration pathway.
Tissue fusion transferred beneficial algae into bleached coral fragments, helping them recover after about a week of contact with clones.
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A giant fungus from China's Yunnan forests reveals a new fungal family, unusual reproductive structures and clues to its evolution.
DiscoveriesScientists discover ‘D-Rex,’ a giant fungus with a 65-million-year evolutionary historyJoseph Shavit
Two niobium-titanium alloys stayed tough at −253°C by generating new routes for deformation inside their crystal structures.
InnovationsNew, cold-resistant, metal alloys tolerate extreme temperatures up to −253°CJoshua Shavit
Simulated atmospheric aging raised aircraft-particle oxidative potential six- to sevenfold, highlighting changes beyond fresh exhaust.
Green ImpactAircraft exhaust particles may become more harmful over time
Population models reveal regional decline and coastal growth after Japan’s Kikai-Akahoya eruption about 7,300 years ago.
Green ImpactAncient volcanic eruption brought population collapse and coastal growth to JapanJoseph Shavit
A reef discovered off Cape York in 2020 rises more than 1,640 feet. Later records clarify its naming history and exploration context.
Green ImpactAustralia’s 1,640-foot tall coral reef reveals a hidden ocean landscape taller than the Empire State BuildingJoseph Shavit
Simulations explain how magnetic-field draping and reconnection shape uneven waves at Earth’s magnetic shield.
SpaceEarth’s tilted magnetic field changes where space waves formJoseph Shavit
A Wits optical neural network reads topological information in structured light, with promising lab results and practical limits ahead.
InnovationsLight-powered neural network could transform future quantum communicationsShy Cohen
Mount Sinai sends brain and heart tissue models to the ISS to study spaceflight, genetic risk and changes linked to aging.
HealthMiniature brain and cardiovascular models head to orbit on SpaceX CRS-35 to study agingJoseph Shavit
A SwRI-led model filters false far-side solar detections and improves magnetic maps, with a measured trade-off in missed active regions.
SpaceImproved magnetic field maps bring the Sun’s hidden hemisphere into focusJoshua Shavit
Electron microscopy tracks dark wave singularities moving faster than light, without carrying energy or information at that speed.
DiscoveriesEinstein was right: Darkness can travel faster than light without breaking relativityJoseph Shavit
FDA-approved Juvmo targets D1/D5 receptors to ease Parkinson’s motor symptoms, building on decades of UVA research.
HealthFDA approves once-daily Parkinson’s pill (Juvmo) built on decades of work by husband-and-wife teamMac Oliveau
DNA Typewriter reconstructs a 1.28-million-cell lineage tree in a mouse embryo, revealing ancestry and unequal developmental contributions.
HealthScientists construct a ‘family tree’ containing 1.28 million cells from a single embryoJoseph Shavit
A major review finds stronger human climate fingerprints across the atmosphere and oceans, reinforcing evidence available in 2009.
Green ImpactClimate change models and measurements provide clear evidence of human influenceJoshua Shavit
Octopus, squid and cuttlefish DNA contacts reveal stable domains and changing loops, offering clues to nervous-system evolution.
DiscoveriesNew DNA findings may explain how octopuses evolved complex brainsRebecca Shavit
Railway timetables and magnetic records place Exeter’s reported solar-storm train delay in 1848, correcting a longstanding date error.
SpaceA delayed Victorian train reveals a 185 year-old error in space weather historyJoshua Shavit
Artist’s impression of WISE 0855, a cold, free-floating world about 7.5 light-years away. Webb observations provide evidence of changing water-cloud thickness and atmospheric chemistry beneath the clouds.
SpaceJWST discovers the first shifting water clouds on a planet outside of our solar systemJoseph Shavit