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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.
New James Webb observations show that the super-puff exoplanet WASP-107 b is losing vast amounts of helium, revealing how extreme heat can strip planets of their atmospheres.
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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
An international team of researchers used the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and XRISM, a JAXA-led mission with ESA participation, to uncover and study a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. The gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of 60 000 km per second.
SpaceAstronomers watch a supermassive black hole X-ray flare ignite an ultra-fast galactic windJoseph Shavit
This is a graph of recorded temperatures (left) and a model of temperatures (right) around the globe for a fixed latitude over time.
AINew AI system helps scientists understand complex systems that change over timeShy Cohen
Hubble imaged a record-size protoplanetary disk with one-sided filaments and turbulent “wisps,” reshaping ideas of planet formation.
SpaceDracula’s Chivito: Hubble reveals the largest known planet-forming diskJoshua Shavit
A Colorado team has found that sargramostim, a long used immune drug, cut a blood marker of neuron death by 40 percent in people with Alzheimer’s and modestly improved scores on a standard memory test, offering cautious hope that brain cell loss in the disease can be slowed.
HealthFDA-approved drug may slow brain cell death in Alzheimer’s patientsMac Oliveau
A major review finds dogs rarely replace children, but “pet parenting” can fulfill nurturing needs and reshape modern family life.
DiscoveriesModern dog ownership has redefined family and parentingRebecca Shavit