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Left: Slash’s groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, in New Guinea. Photo credit: Chris Austin. Right: Slash and Sara Ruane at the Field Museum, with Sara’s copy of Reptiles Magazine featuring Slash on the cover.
Genetics and anatomy revealed a reddish-brown New Guinea snake that scientists had mistaken for another species.
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A new modeling tool can estimate the age of zebra sharks, which can live up to 30 years, within about two years.
DiscoveriesFirst epigenetic DNA clock can reveal a zebra shark’s age from a blood sampleJoseph Shavit
The UC-30 submarine sank in 1917, but its explosives are still affecting the surrounding marine environment.
Green ImpactOld World War wrecks are still leaking TNT into the North SeaJoshua Shavit
A runaway supermassive black hole is leaving a vast trail of newborn blue stars in its wake, dating back to when the universe was about half its present age.
SpaceRunaway supermassive black hole may be the result of a violent cosmic collisionJoseph Shavit
The Apophis 2029 flyby could reveal asteroid surface shifts, spin changes and new lessons for planetary defense.
SpaceApophis will zoom past Earth in 2029, turning a rare flyby into a planetary defense testJoseph Shavit
A nationwide database reveals where landslides threaten millions of Americans and highlights deep urban and rural divides in risk.
Green ImpactUW researchers create the first building-level map of landslide risk across the United StatesJoseph Shavit
Scientists have developed a targeted therapy that removes harmful gum bacteria while protecting beneficial microbes, offering a new path for oral health.
HealthNew light-based therapy targets gum disease without harming healthy bacteriaJoshua Shavit
A cosmic glitch in gravity may make gravity about 1% weaker across billions of light-years, challenging Einstein’s theory at vast scales.
Space‘Cosmic Glitch’ could explain why gravity acts differently across the UniverseJoseph Shavit
Binary asteroid simulations improve with a Hamel integrator that preserves energy, rotation geometry and computational efficiency.
SpaceAstronomers develop a faster way to simulate the complicated motion of binary asteroidsJoseph Shavit
Remnant radio galaxies reveal how quickly giant black hole jets fade, with many distant examples surviving for only millions of years.
SpaceTwelve fading galaxies expose a missing stage in the life of black hole jetsJoseph Shavit
A CSHL model shows how T cells can learn from limited thymus training and still avoid most self-attacks.
AIThe thymus trains T cells like an AI model to avoid attacking the bodyShy Cohen
GJ 523b is a dense mega-Earth 2.55 times Earth's radius, challenging ideas about how large rocky planets form.
SpaceAstronomers find an ultra-dense mega-Earth 23 times our planet’s mass but only 2.5 times its sizeJoseph Shavit
Outcrop photo of carbonaceous chert. 3.5-billion-year-old chert in India preserves carbon and layered structures that researchers link to early microbial life.
Green Impact3.5 billion-year-old rock in India may hold evidence of early microbial lifeJoshua Shavit
Time-restricted eating for Type 1 diabetes lowered HbA1c without increasing severe glucose complications in a six-month trial.
HealthTime-restricted eating shows promise for blood sugar control in type 1 diabetesMac Oliveau
ASU researchers found a hidden airflow effect that can cut sweat evaporation by more than 50% in still heat.
HealthSweat may cool the body less than expected in hot, dry and windless conditionsRebecca Shavit
Thunderquake seismic imaging uses storm-generated vibrations and buried fiber-optic cables to reveal underground weak zones.
Green ImpactThunderquakes turn storms into a new tool for imaging underground hazardsJoseph Shavit
Scientists including UWM Professor David Kaplan have determined the identity of a long-period radio transient to be a white dwarf accreting material from its neighboring star, as illustrated in the graphic above.
SpaceRepeating radio signals lead UMW astronomers to a rare binary white dwarf star systemJoshua Shavit