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China’s Tianwen-1 captures interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS near Mars
China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft captured images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS passing near Mars from approximately 30 million kilometers away, revealing the object’s tail and surrounding gas cloud.
Scientists discover a compound that could supercharge aging muscle repair
Scientists identified a compound called lipoic acid trisulfide that enhances a protein crucial for muscle repair in aging, potentially helping preserve strength and function in older adults.
New “living plastic” self-destructs in just 6 days without leaving microplastics
Researchers developed a self-degrading plastic containing dormant microbes that completely breaks down in six days without producing microplastics, offering a potential solution to persistent plastic pollution.
Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D
Researchers at ETH Zurich and EPFL developed a new particle detection system using light field camera technology to track invisible particles in three dimensions within unsegmented scintillator blocks.
Koalas nearly went extinct before humans arrived, DNA study reveals
A new genomic analysis reveals koalas experienced a severe population decline about 100,000 years ago, long before humans arrived in Australia, according to research from the University of Sydney and Texas A&M University.
Your fingers may hold a secret of human brain evolution
A study examining newborns finds that higher prenatal estrogen exposure may correlate with larger brain size in boys, offering insights into human brain evolution.
Scientists found two powerful new ways to destroy forever chemicals
Researchers developed two technologies to destroy persistent PFAS chemicals: hydrodynamic cavitation and cold atmospheric plasma, both showing promise in degrading these widely dispersed industrial compounds.
An ordinary laptop solved a problem thought to require a quantum computer
Researchers at the Flatiron Institute solved a complex quantum physics problem using conventional computers and mathematical techniques, with some calculations running on a personal laptop.
Antarctica may give the world decades to prepare for rising seas
A new study indicates scientists can reliably predict Antarctic ice loss over the next 30-50 years, providing governments a crucial window to prepare for resulting sea level rise.
Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts
Britain faces proposed cuts to particle physics funding that could force scientists to reduce involvement in major international research projects, raising concerns about the country’s scientific leadership.
Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site
Archaeologists discovered an earlier, simpler version of Stonehenge about 3 miles away, consisting of two wooden posts aligned with solar solstices and dating back roughly 5,000 years.
Antarctica’s first ever dinosaur bone discovered in a drawer
Scientists have confirmed that a fossil discovered in Antarctica in 1985 and stored in a drawer for 40 years is the continent’s first known dinosaur bone, belonging to a long-necked Titanosaur.
Space jam: astronomers detect ‘raspberry sugar’ on dust cloud in Milky Way
Astronomers detected erythrulose, a natural sugar found in raspberries, in a dust cloud near the Milky Way’s center, suggesting life-building compounds form in interstellar space.
Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman
Ancient DNA analysis has revealed that the Upton Lovell Shaman, a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age individual long depicted as male, was actually female, challenging assumptions about gender roles in prehistoric metalworking.
Tiny plastics in drinking water may be making dangerous bacteria stronger
Nanoplastics in drinking water may strengthen harmful bacteria and make them more resistant to disinfectants, potentially complicating water treatment processes, according to new research.
“Silly sprinklers” help scientists finally solve Feynman’s famous sprinkler mystery
Researchers have solved Feynman’s decades-old sprinkler mystery using colorful lawn sprinklers, finding that water momentum drives rotation in both forward and reverse modes.
Terraforming Mars may be more realistic than scientists once thought
Scientists now view terraforming Mars as legitimate research worthy of study, with recent technological advances in launch costs, synthetic biology, and climate modeling making the concept more feasible than previously believed.
NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured detailed images showing how gas flows from a galaxy’s outer regions into a supermassive black hole, revealing a previously unseen feeding mechanism.
Earth’s biggest volcanic event transformed an entire oceanic plate
Scientists discovered that a massive ancient volcanic event beneath the Ontong Java Plateau not only built underwater terrain but fundamentally altered the oceanic plate’s structure and chemical composition.
The mysterious hum heard around the world may finally have an explanation
Researchers investigating a mysterious humming sound reported globally for decades suggest it may stem from low-frequency tinnitus rather than external sources for most people experiencing it.
A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
A Sydney PhD student created cosmic dust in a laboratory bottle by simulating stellar conditions, revealing chemical pathways for life’s building blocks before Earth formed.
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Can Dogs Sense PTSD?
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Recent Deadly Crash Halts Uber’s Progress with Autonomous Vehicles
Following several car crashes and one recent fatality in its testing of autonomous vehicles, Uber has temporarily stopped testing of these self-driving cars. In the most recent incident involving a self-driving vehicle driving in Tempe, Arizona, a Volvo SUV hit and...
Scientists in Sweden has made a material that challenges spider silk as the strongest bio-based material
The challenge of producing a bio-based material that can compete with the strength spider dragline silk has since long been pursued, primarily by trying to make fibers synthetically from silk. Now, by using nanocellulose, the component that makes trees and plants...