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Ancient crust buried beneath modern mountains suggests Gondwana once contained about 80% of Earth's continental landmass.
Isotope mapping reveals millions of square kilometers of lost Gondwanan crust hidden beneath Asia, Europe and North America.
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Solar models suggest the young Sun may have swallowed a super-Earth whose chemical fingerprint could remain inside it today.
SpaceA missing super-Earth may have been swallowed up by the Sun billions of years agoJoseph Shavit
King’s College London scientists found urolithin A improved heart relaxation in preclinical tests.
HealthNatural compound linked to pomegranates targets a hard-to-treat form of heart failureJoshua Shavit
A new SETI framework proposes searching Moon dust for microscopic technological debris that may have crossed the galaxy billions of years ago.
SpaceAlien technology could be hiding as microscopic dust on the MoonJoseph Shavit
New simulations suggest geological strength let a hot Theia produce an almost intact proto-Moon within hours of its collision with Earth.
SpaceThe Moon may have formed almost intact within hours of Theia smashing into EarthJoseph Shavit
A 21.9-million-year-old volcanic blanket preserved clues showing part of the Andes may have risen slowly for millions of years.
Green ImpactA giant Pompeii-scale eruption buried an ancient Andes landscape and preserved it for 22 million yearsJoshua Shavit
A new dual-gate tribotronic transistor array could help robots, prosthetics and wearable devices sense touch and nearby objects.
HealthNew electronic skin sensor detects touch, pressure and nearby objectsJoshua Shavit
Ohio State researchers found that low-intensity electric fields reduced tumor growth and lung spread in models of triple-negative breast cancer.
HealthWearable electric field therapy slows aggressive breast cancer, study findsJoseph Shavit
Lei Du and Tangyou Huang, Chalmers University of Technology.
DiscoveriesScientists find a way to run error-protected quantum operations 1,000 times fasterJoshua Shavit
Around the SKA telescope, old star stories survive through practical knowledge, new meanings and changing community traditions.
SpaceBefore MeerKAT, South Africa’s Karoo telescope had its own ways of reading the starsJoseph Shavit
Captured within this image is the newly discovered galaxy proto-supercluster named COSMOS-z3.1-A.
SpaceA cosmic giant 5,000 times the Milky Way’s mass emerges from the early UniverseJoseph Shavit
Hebrew University researchers found that tomato drought resilience may depend on when plants use water, not just how much.
Green ImpactTomato study finds a ‘Golden Hour’ that could help crops survive droughtJoshua Shavit
Museum bones holding tiny scraps of DNA were enough to rebuild two missing branches of the Galápagos tortoise family tree.
DiscoveriesTiny DNA fragments reveal two extinct Galápagos tortoise lineagesRebecca Shavit
A new model reveals how strongly Venus’s mysterious cloud absorber must block ultraviolet light, sharply narrowing possible candidates.
SpaceScientists identify a mysterious substance darkening Venus’s cloudsJoseph Shavit
Ancient Sulawesi teeth and arecoline residues suggest humans were habitually using psychoactive betel nuts up to 25,000 years ago.
Health25,000-year-old teeth may reveal the world’s earliest evidence of drug useJoshua Shavit
Gaia measurements show massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud moving apart, suggesting the Large Magellanic Cloud may be disrupting it.
SpaceThe Large Magellanic Cloud may be tearing its smaller neighbor apartJoseph Shavit
The lab of Robert Boyd, right, the William F. Krupke Distinguished Professor in Optics, has spent more than a decade refining the new imaging system, with contributions from PhD students including Yang Xu ’26 (PhD), center, and physics doctoral student Long Nguyen, left.
AINew optical shutter uses light and AI to see through dense fog and tissueJoshua Shavit