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Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning underground
Indonesia’s peatland fires are burning underground, producing three times more pollution than typical forest fires and becoming increasingly difficult to extinguish as El Niño intensifies drought conditions.
A massive plume deep beneath Africa is pulling the continent apart
A massive mantle plume beneath Africa explains unusual deformation patterns in the East African Rift System, according to new computer modeling by geophysicists at Virginia Tech.
Scientists discover why snake embryos twist into spirals
Canadian researchers discovered that snake embryos coil into spirals because their rapidly lengthening bodies are mechanically constrained by a slowly-growing gut structure acting as a tether.
A coffee-table-size scorpion roamed Earth before forests existed
Researchers have identified a one-meter-long scorpion from 415 million years ago as the largest known to science, challenging understanding of when giant arthropods first appeared on Earth.
Interstellar solar sails hit a strange problem at 75% of light speed
Researchers found that solar sails experience unexpected drag once traveling at 75% light speed due to relativistic effects that redirect scattered photons, potentially limiting interstellar propulsion efficiency.
This “new” frog was hiding in plain sight for 100 years
Scientists formally described a common frog species that had been misidentified for over a century, highlighting the importance of historical museum specimens in modern taxonomy.
80,000-year-old “arrowheads” rewrite human history
Researchers identified 80,000-year-old triangular projectile points at an Uzbekistan site, suggesting early Homo sapiens may have originated in Central Asia rather than Europe, potentially rewriting human migration history.
A mysterious signal around Earth could be dark matter
Researchers used Earth’s magnetic field as a giant detector to search for ultralight dark matter particles, identifying mysterious signal candidates that warrant further investigation.
Nasa space telescope launches after surviving Trump budget cuts
NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launched Sunday after surviving White House budget cut attempts, beginning its million-mile journey to study exoplanets and the universe’s fundamental mysteries.
A lost mega-cliff may explain the Grand Canyon’s missing billion years
Scientists propose an enormous ancient cliff system formed nearly a billion years ago may have exposed the Grand Canyon’s deepest rocks long before the Colorado River carved the modern landscape.
Hidden magnetism inside atoms may explain mysterious gamma rays
Scientists may have solved a decades-old nuclear physics puzzle involving unexpected gamma ray emissions from certain atomic nuclei, with findings suggesting magnetic forces within nuclei are responsible.
A strange new quantum droplet can hold itself together
Researchers at Monash University have predicted a new type of quantum matter where two different particle classes combine to form stable, self-bound droplets, challenging previous assumptions about ultracold particle behavior.
2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals ancient waterproofing secrets
A 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals ancient waterproofing techniques using pine tar and beeswax, with pollen analysis showing where repairs occurred across the Mediterranean.
Scientists catch a hidden electronic state forming in just 30 femtoseconds
Japanese researchers observed a hidden electronic state forming in a metal-organic framework within 30 femtoseconds, revealing an intermediate bond-order wave state that could enable light-controlled materials.
Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts
Britain plans cuts to particle physics funding and international research collaborations, raising concerns about the future of blue-sky research that has historically driven major scientific breakthroughs.
From blast off to splashdown: My days following Nasa’s historic mission to the Moon
Four astronauts have completed a historic 10-day mission to the Moon and back, traveling further into space than humans have journeyed before aboard NASA’s Artemis II spacecraft.
Aditya-L1: Indian solar mission’s new findings throw light on enduring Sun mysteries
India’s Aditya-L1 solar mission has revealed new clues about why the Sun’s corona remains millions of degrees hotter than its surface despite constant energy loss.
Science or fiction? Shadowy ‘paper mills’ let you pay to be a published author – of fraudulent research
Shadowy organizations called “paper mills” profit by selling fraudulent academic authorship and falsified research, charging fees ranging from $30 to $800 per paper, with activity doubling approximately every 18 months.
King penguin chick hatches in UK for first time in 12 years
A king penguin chick has hatched at a British wildlife park for the first time in 12 years, with keepers hand-rearing the 188g bird after moving its egg to an incubator.
Scientists turn tiny “defects” into a 5.5x heat transfer boost
Researchers developed a polymer coating that boosts condensation heat transfer by up to 5.5 times by leveraging nanoscale surface structures to improve water droplet formation and removal.
A hidden “on switch” in human DNA has finally been decoded
Researchers at UC San Diego used artificial intelligence to decode the “initiator,” a DNA sequence that marks where genes begin to be expressed, finding it present in roughly 60% of human genes.
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