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Perseverance found Jezero rocks altered by at least three water systems involving carbonates, silica and later hydrothermal fluids. This Mastcam-Z-enhanced color photo mosaic shows a butte near Jezero crater.
Mars’ Margin Unit records repeated encounters with groundwater, possible lake water and heated fluids long after its igneous rocks formed.
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A gravitational tug involving Earth’s inner core may explain why the planet’s day length shifts by milliseconds over decades.
SpaceEarth’s inner core may be quietly changing the length of our daysJoshua Shavit
The 79 CE Vesuvius eruption helped scientists reduce argon-argon dating uncertainty to just 13 years for a 2,000-year-old event.
DiscoveriesThe eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocksJoshua Shavit
AI analysis of 2,057 bird species links rare bursts of body-shape evolution with periods of major climate instability.
Green ImpactClimate shifts sparked rare bursts of bird evolutionRebecca Shavit
Enceladus may naturally concentrate biosignatures in ice grains, while experiments show microbes can tolerate its unusual ocean chemistry.
SpaceSaturn’s icy moon Enceladus may make alien life easier to find than scientists thoughtJoseph Shavit
A review of 2,736 trials finds exercise reduces pain across many conditions, with lower-intensity programs showing strong benefits.
HealthScientists study 221,000 people to find which exercise works best for pain reliefJoshua Shavit
Adults who played Zelda and Yoshi games reported less loneliness, though the study cannot prove the games caused it.
DiscoveriesPlaying alone does not necessarily mean feeling lonely, gaming study findsRebecca Shavit
MIT neuroscientists found flexible neuron clusters that can store different kinds of information during a task.
HealthMIT study finds brain circuits may work like reusable building blocks for thoughtJoshua Shavit
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission found that Bennu shares a distinctive isotopic fingerprint with asteroid Ryugu and rare CI carbonaceous chondrites.
SpaceAsteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thoughtJoseph Shavit
Artist's visualization of an early galaxy and its surrounding gaseous environment. The orange structures represent metal-enriched gas being expelled from the galaxy, illustrating how young galaxies began dispersing heavy elements into their surroundings within the universe's first 500 million years. The visualization is based on publicly available FIRE-2 cosmological simulation data and is not a direct telescope image.
SpaceJWST finds early galaxies were already spreading the ingredients for planets and lifeJoseph Shavit
People detected buried objects through sand before contact, revealing a previously undocumented form of remote touch in humans.
HealthHumans possess a ‘seventh sense’ that detects hidden objectsJoseph Shavit
A University of Reading study finds ozone recovery and air pollution may contribute 40% more warming than previously estimated, making ozone the second-largest driver of future climate change after carbon dioxide.
Green ImpactOzone layer recovery comes with an unexpected climate consequenceJoseph Shavit
The Moon is magnetically quiet today, but a buried volcanic structure on its far side may preserve evidence of a very different past.
SpaceBuried volcanic structure suggests that our Moon once had a powerful magnetic fieldJoseph Shavit
A new study shows pramipexole, a Parkinson’s drug, may help people with depression regain motivation, pleasure, and daily engagement.
HealthParkinson’s drug helps restore pleasure and motivation in depression patientsJoshua Shavit
Artistic rendering of string-breaking. A 13-ion quantum simulator reproduced string breaking and revealed an unexpected route to particle-pair formation.
DiscoveriesQuantum computer simulates how stored energy can become new particlesShy Cohen
A photo of a new species of sea spider Tanystylum kiixin with eggs shown forming along the limbs.
DiscoveriesHairy legs and red eyes: Two bizarre new sea spiders found in British Columbia’s Salish SeaJoshua Shavit
Removing nearly all of Earth’s magnetic field altered mitochondria, movement and survival in healthy and Parkinson’s-model fruit flies.
HealthEarth’s magnetic field is influencing how we age, study findsJoseph Shavit