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A Yale-led study finds many older adults improve in cognition or walking, and positive beliefs about aging predict those gains.
Nearly half of older adults improved over 12 years, and a Yale team found mindset about aging helped predict who got better.
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ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches.
SpaceESA orbiter reveals strange behavior within Mars’ upper atmosphere during a solar superstormJoseph Shavit
A Science study using 300,000 fossils finds east-west coastlines trapped species at one latitude, raising extinctions over 540 million years.
Green ImpactHow ancient shorelines played a crucial role in the survival of early sea creaturesRebecca Shavit
Ryugu asteroid samples preserve magnetic signals from the early solar system, revealing clues about the solar nebula.
SpaceAsteroid Ryugu fragments carry a magnetic record from the birth of the solar systemJoseph Shavit
New research suggests there is no single perfect sprint technique. Speed emerges from each athlete’s unique body and coordination.
DiscoveriesFrom Usain Bolt to Gout Gout – why elite sprinters run so differentlyAmyn Bhai
A digital rebuild of Little Foot’s face suggests unexpected ties to East African fossils and hints at selection around the eyes.
Discoveries3.67 million year old fossil provides new insight into the evolution of the human faceRebecca Shavit
Physicists observe nearly perfect ballistic transport in a one-dimensional ultracold rubidium gas.
DiscoveriesPhysicists build a quantum Newton’s cradle where energy flows without resistanceShy Cohen
A Swiss study found teens slept 45 minutes longer when they could choose a later school start.
HealthThe hidden cost of early morning classes on teen student brainsMac Oliveau
Brooklyn College Professor Stephen Chester (center) points out dental features on an enlarged model of an extinct mammal to undergraduate research assistants (left to right) Aisha Amir, Aidan Smith, Todd Skahill, and Shruthika Srinivasan) at his lab on campus.
DiscoveriesNew fossil findings help clarify the history of primate evolutionHannah Shavit-Weiner
Lab impacts show a tough microbe can survive pressures linked to rock ejection from Mars, supporting planet-hopping ideas.
SpaceMartian microbes can survive being blasted into space by a large asteroid strikeJoshua Shavit
Image of WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). ESO/K.
SpaceA giant star’s sudden shift signals it might be ready to supernovaJoseph Shavit
Flinders-led research links systemising, a drive for patterns, to stronger conspiracy beliefs and harder-to-shift views.
DiscoveriesWhy conspiracy theories persist even without evidenceRebecca Shavit
Illustration of the distant galaxy 8 billion light-years away (red), magnified by an unrelated foreground disk galaxy, resulting in a red ring. Splitting up the radio light into different colors, as a prism does, reveals the hydroxyl gigamaser (top-right rainbow-colored line).
SpaceMeerKAT discovers largest-ever cosmic laser 8 billion light-years awayJoshua Shavit
A global team built a test so difficult that today’s AI models still fail most of it.
AIHumanity’s last exam, the test that modern AI still struggles to passShy Cohen
A lesser-known brain peptide may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease, challenging decades of research focused on amyloid beta alone.
HealthA lesser-known brain peptide may contribute to Alzheimer’s diseaseMac Oliveau
Five physical barriers may prevent civilizations from ever meeting, from light speed limits to cosmic timing gaps.
SpaceInterstellar travel is impossible and aliens haven’t visited Earth, physicists sayJoseph Shavit
A six-month trial found daily peanut butter improved older adults’ sit-to-stand power without weight gain.
HealthEating peanut butter builds muscle power in older adults, study findsJoshua Shavit