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JWST detects water around IRS 3, a dying star shedding huge amounts of gas and dust near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
A giant aging star near Sagittarius A* is losing an Earth’s mass every 18 days while preserving water inside its dusty envelope.
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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
Waist size and cardiovascular risk are closely linked, and measuring the midsection may identify dangers that BMI alone misses.
HealthBelly fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI, study findsJoseph Shavit
Rutendo Shadaya became a young author at nine and now inspires girls worldwide after earning recognition from Time magazine.
Good NewsRutendo Shadaya wrote a fantasy book at age 9. Now she is one of Time’s Girls of the YearRebecca Shavit
Face-on projections of the stacked surface density distribution of stars and gas in the X-Y plane
SpaceDark matter and star clusters work together to reshape the centers of galaxiesJoseph Shavit
Diana Prado Lopes Aude Craik is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.
DiscoveriesETH Zurich researchers detect a possible fifth force of natureJoseph Shavit
A nationwide study finds that obeying speed limits could save fuel, cut emissions and cost drivers less than a minute per day.
Green ImpactAmericans can save 6.7 million gallons of fuel each day by doing this one small thingShy Cohen
Study links religiosity and mental health to stronger meaning in life, less social media use and lower harmful digital exposure.
HealthFaith, purpose, and healthier digital habits linked to better mental healthJoshua Shavit
The XPRIZE Healthspan competition advances 20 teams testing ways to restore muscle, brain and immune function as people age.
Health$101 million XPRIZE Healthspan competition advances 20 teams to finals with UCSD named as testing hubJoseph Shavit
The ALICE experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. CERN data reveal evidence for gluon saturation inside atomic nuclei and challenge a competing nuclear shadowing model.
DiscoveriesTiny structures inside lead nuclei expose a new pattern in gluon behaviorJoshua Shavit
A 245 million-year-old fossil from China reveals how early reptiles adapted to the sea, preserving both skeleton and digestive system.
Discoveries245-million-year-old reptile fossil preserves the oldest known intact digestive systemJoshua Shavit
Gaia star clusters challenge the universal initial mass function used to estimate galaxy mass, star formation and evolution.
SpaceNew Gaia data is challenging a 50-year-old assumption about how stars and galaxies formJoseph Shavit
Adult female paratypes of Acanthosaura syrax sp. nov. (left for THNHM31130 and right for THNHM31131).
DiscoveriesNew Thai lizard named after Syrax, Queen Rhaenyra’s dragon from House of the DragonJoseph Shavit
Captured at a wavelength of 416 nanometers by the Inouye Solar Telescope, this is the highest-resolution image ever taken of the Sun's visible surface. It reveals ultra-fine magnetic structures and distorted boundaries shaped by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
SpaceSmall whirlpool-like structures reveal how the Sun stores and releases energyJoshua Shavit
Time crystal synchronization in a semiconductor links distant spin oscillators through diffusing spin-polarized electrons.
InnovationsNew semiconductor turns billions of spin oscillators into a shared time crystalJoseph Shavit
12-Year-Old Inventor’s Solar-Powered Backpack Brings Warmth to Glasgow’s Rough Sleepers
Innovations12-year-old inventor’s solar-powered backpack is keeping Glasgow’s homeless warmRebecca Shavit
Image of the holotype jaw of Tetonius varleyorum.
Discoveries55-million-year-old fossil teeth rewrite the story of early primate evolutionJoshua Shavit