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Space habitat design could shape astronaut mental health on long missions by influencing sleep, privacy, connection, and homesickness.
MIT engineers mapped how lighting, layout, privacy, and reconfigurable spaces can affect crews living far from Earth.
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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
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