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Using weather radar, scientists tracked flying insects across the United States for a decade. They found stable national numbers but sharp regional gains and losses linked to winter warming and land use.
Weather radar data shows U.S. flying insect numbers stayed stable from 2012 to 2021, with strong regional shifts tied to winter warming.
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The KSTAR nuclear fusion reactor. A new theoretical study argues that future fusion reactors may do more than generate clean energy. They could also help uncover elusive particles linked to dark matter.
Green ImpactFusion reactors may be the key to uncovering dark matter particlesMac Oliveau
New research suggests LUCA was a complex microbe that lived about 4.2 billion years ago, reshaping ideas about life’s origins.
DiscoveriesScientists found the last universal common ancestor for all life on EarthJoshua Shavit
An artist’s interpretation of light from a supernova passing through a gravitational lens, reaching Earth at different times.
Space10 billion-year-old supernova sheds new light on cosmic expansion and dark energyJoseph Shavit
Archaeologists have mapped Semiyarka, a 140 hectare Bronze Age settlement in Kazakhstan that housed rows of homes, a central building and a dedicated bronze industry district, revealing that steppe communities built planned urban hubs long before history gave them credit.
DiscoveriesArcheologists find the lost Bronze Age city of Seven RavinesJoshua Shavit
New MIT research shows briefly silencing an eye can restore adult amblyopia by restarting brain plasticity.
HealthMIT study reveals how vision can be restored in adults with ‘lazy eye’Mac Oliveau
Scientists say a solar wind storm may explain Uranus’s powerful radiation belts seen by Voyager 2.
SpaceUranus’s extreme radiation belts linked to ancient solar wind eventJoseph Shavit
A long-term Swedish study suggests high-fat cheese and cream may lower dementia risk, while other dairy foods show no benefit.
HealthHigh-fat cheese linked to lower dementia risk in long-term studyRebecca Shavit
This Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies.
SpaceColliding galaxies ignite the universe’s most powerful black holes, Euclid data findsJoseph Shavit
A fresh look at Cassini data shows Titan’s interior dissipates far more energy than expected, pointing to slushy high-pressure ice rather than a global ocean.
SpaceTitan’s interior is slushy ice, not a hidden ocean, Cassini data findsJoseph Shavit
New maps reveal how the Sun’s outer atmospheric boundary grows larger and rougher as solar activity rises.
SpaceAstronomers map the Sun’s shifting atmospheric edge for the first timeJoseph Shavit
Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland. A global study led by ETH Zurich shows glacier loss will peak mid-century, with thousands vanishing each year depending on warming levels.
Green ImpactGlaciers are disappearing faster than ever, and scientists now know when the loss will peakRebecca Shavit
A large clinical trial found that pairing eflornithine with lomustine helps people with recurrent grade 3 IDH-mutant astrocytoma live longer and delay tumor progression.
HealthNew drug combination boosts life expectancy from grade 3 brain tumors by 45% or moreMac Oliveau
Laboratory experiments reveal that silicon and carbon mixed into iron could explain why seismic waves behave differently across Earth’s inner core.
SpaceSilicon and carbon in iron may explain the onion-like layering of Earth’s inner coreJoseph Shavit
Tripedalia cystophora image shown. Tripedalia maipoensis and Tripedalia cystophora are very closely related box jellyfish within the same genus, Tripedalia.
DiscoveriesNew box jellyfish species has 24 eyes and can see in all directions at onceJoshua Shavit
UCLA researchers developed an AI tool that finds undiagnosed Alzheimer’s using health records while reducing racial disparities.
HealthNew AI Tool identifies undiagnosed Alzheimer’s cases and reduces racial gapsShy Cohen
Scientists have discovered a single-celled amoeba that grows at temperatures once thought impossible for complex life, pushing the known limits of eukaryotic survival.
DiscoveriesA heat-loving amoeba smashes the temperature record for complex lifeRebecca Shavit