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NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures. The honeycomb pattern…

Tiny black holes may be secretly exploding stars across the Milky Way

Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions. Researchers found…

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Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, res…

Ant brains reveal how evolution turned hunger into parenting

Ant parenting may have evolved from the same brain systems that once controlled hunger. Researchers found that two chemical signals push cl…

Superheated magma may power towering lava fountains

Scientists studying magma from the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma have discovered that extreme heat can dramatically change how an eru…

Scientists found two mysterious ‘ghost’ ancestors hiding in our DNA

Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic legacy shows …

New process turns plastic waste into hydrogen fuel while trapping the carbon

A new chemical process can transform three of the most common plastics into high-purity hydrogen without sorting them first. The technique …

Scientists discover why poor sleep may harm some brains more

A gene involved in the brain’s overnight cleaning system may change how strongly poor sleep affects Alzheimer’s-related brain changes. The …

A 42-year-old childhood obesity theory may be wrong

New research challenges the decades-old idea that children experience an “adiposity rebound” when their BMI begins rising around age 6. Alt…

Black holes may spit out nearly as much matter as they swallow

A black hole observed during a dramatic 2023 eruption did not simply devour gas from its nearby companion star. It also expelled large amou…

AI can tell if your brain is aging faster than you are

A person’s sleeping brain may reveal warning signs of dementia long before memory problems begin. Researchers used machine learning to anal…

Strange gamma rays could reveal how stars forge heavy elements

Scientists traced a mysterious surge of low-energy gamma rays from zinc-70 to magnetic changes occurring inside its nucleus. The breakthrou…

Scientists discover how obesity may fuel Alzheimer’s disease

Researchers have uncovered a possible biological pathway connecting obesity to Alzheimer’s disease. Obesity appears to raise levels of cert…

Scientists find a simple routine linked to less pain and depression

Keeping a regular daily schedule may help reduce pain and depression, especially among older adults with insomnia. Researchers found that c…

What if the brain does not create consciousness?

Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all.…

This 4,000-year-old city defied the rules of history

As Mohenjo-daro prospered, the gap between its richest and poorest households actually shrank. Its shared infrastructure, fair trade system…

Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands

More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary surprise. Giant daisi…

A forgotten fossil just revealed a new Triassic predator from 210 million years ago

A fossil overlooked for nearly 80 years has revealed a previously unknown crocodile relative that lived 210 million years ago in what is no…