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Artist's impression of the planet Epsilon Indi Ab, with water clouds atop its ammonia-dominated atmosphere.
A cold giant exoplanet may be wrapped in water-ice clouds, complicating how astronomers read alien atmospheres.
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These discoveries hint that the area was once submerged, strengthening theories that the site could be linked to the biblical vessel.
DiscoveriesNew scan data of Turkish formation is reviving the Noah’s Ark debateRebecca Shavit
MIT researchers say classical least action can exactly reproduce key quantum behaviors in a new mathematical framework.
DiscoveriesThe strange connection between falling balls and quantum weirdnessShy Cohen
Why walls stop visible light but often let Wi-Fi through comes down to how electrons absorb energy.
DiscoveriesStrange Physics: Why Wi-Fi and radio waves can pass through walls but light can’tJoseph Shavit
On Oct. 25, 2020, NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped a selfie after drilling into a rock called “Mary Anning.” Years later, that sample has delivered the richest mix of organic molecules ever detected on Mars.
SpaceNASA’s Curiosity rover detects never-before-seen organic compounds on MarsJoshua Shavit
In experiments with rice seeds submerged in water, MIT researchers found that the sound of falling droplets shook the seeds out of a dormant state, stimulating them to germinate more quickly than seeds that were not exposed to the same sound vibrations.
Green ImpactSeeds can sense the sound of falling raindrops, MIT study findsRebecca Shavit
A Mexican axolotl in Wake Forest University biologist Josh Currie's regeneration lab.
HealthSalamander gene could hold the key to regrowing human limbsHannah Shavit-Weiner
Long-term genome tracking shows how chronic blood cancers quietly evolve years before patients worsen.
Health25-year-long study discovers how blood cancers evolve and worsenMac Oliveau
The Milky Way is a massive, spiral-shaped collection of stars, gas, and dust that houses our own solar system. Dr Karl Fiteni (inset) led the study. Photo shows the core of the Milky Way as photographed by Joseph Caruana from Dwejra Gozo
SpaceFor the first time, astronomers identify the edge of the Milky Way’s discJoshua Shavit
This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary deposits in the Glenelg area of Gale Crater. Gale Crater is a paleolake located close to the putative coastal shelf.
Space‘Bathtub Ring’ points to vast ancient ocean on MarsJoseph Shavit
New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today.
SpaceCosmic simulations reveal how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of yearsJoshua Shavit
Trapped ions already power quantum computers and the world’s most precise clocks. Now, by merging those strengths, researchers are probing something deeper: time itself behaving as a quantum superposition.
DiscoveriesBreakthrough ion clock experiments reveal that time can go quantumShy Cohen
Fossil hunting by the research team in south China.
Green ImpactScientists discover how primitive plants survived Earth’s worst mass extinctionHannah Shavit-Weiner
DNA from a Stone Age tomb near Paris points to collapse, migration and a social reset around 3000 BC.
DiscoveriesDNA evidence points to a massive stone age population collapseRebecca Shavit
Gut microbes may reveal Parkinson’s risk years before symptoms, according to new research from UCL.
HealthGut microbiome changes can signal Parkinson’s disease risk years before symptomsMac Oliveau
NASA astronaut and Boeing Crew Flight Test Pilot Suni Williams. Astronauts still grip objects as if gravity matters, even after months in space, a new study finds.
SpaceWhy do astronauts still act like gravity exists in space?Joseph Shavit
A general view of the excavation of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov Acheulian site. (Note that the original occupation surfaces are tilted due to tectonics).
DiscoveriesAncient charcoal from Israel reveals how early humans used fireRebecca Shavit