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A millisecond radio burst that crossed 10 billion years of space has been traced to a tiny, young galaxy, offering a new way to ma…
NASA's Chandra found 84 strange objects glowing in low-energy X-rays across six galaxies, including the Pinwheel Galaxy. See what …
A DNA computer ran 10 programs by settling into its lowest-energy state, with no error correction. See how it works and why it mat…
NASA's Chandra spots a galaxy merger in action, revealing black hole activity and star formation hidden behind thick dust.…
A new gravity from entropy theory shows the universe can grow tidier in some corners while still getting messier overall, and neve…
Two Jupiter-size planets found near a distant star are lighter than cotton candy, and no one is fully sure how gas giants get this…
The official protein intake number comes from 1940s science. Here is what modern research says you actually need to build and keep…
A protein coating inspired by how teeth first form can regrow real tooth enamel in days, restoring the strength lost to decay, aci…
Scientists found frozen magma scars deep inside the Ontong Java Plateau, the world's largest underwater plateau, revealing how it …
A star gets ripped apart by a black hole and lights up the sky. See how NASA's Roman Space Telescope will catch these rare cosmic …
Physicists trapped 24,000 atoms colder than deep space to test the problem of time, and built a clock that runs on entropy alone, …
A magnetic wave once vanished in nanoseconds. Cooled near absolute zero, its magnon lifetime now stretches to 18 microseconds, aid…
A life-size dinosaur model reveals how oviraptorid dinosaur egg incubation really worked, and why it fell far short of how birds w…
NASA caught the Sun's strongest solar flare in weeks on camera. Here is what an X1.1 flare means for radios, power grids, and you.…
Astronomers found two Jupiter-sized planets so light they are less dense than Styrofoam. Here is why these super-puff planets coul…
ESA's Euclid took a stunning sneak peek at our galaxy's crowded core — the exact region NASA's Roman telescope will scan for hid…
A tiny sea creature called a comb jelly has an ancient body-building signal once thought exclusive to frogs and fish — pushing t…
Webb and Hubble just proved Terzan 5 is not a globular cluster but a living fossil — a relic from when our Milky Way was still b…
A 6-tonne sandstone slab at Stonehenge likely came from Scotland 700 km away — and ice, not just human muscle, may have done par…
As men get older, many silently lose the Y chromosome from their cells. Scientists now know this is tied to cancer, heart disease,…
Hayli Gubbi had no eruption record since the Stone Age. Then it exploded in 2025, pushing ash and toxic gas 2,000 km across three …
A new drought resilience index tested 7 crops in Odisha. When rice yields crashed 60%, millets barely flinched. Here is what farme…
Space-time is called the fabric of reality — but a new philosophical argument shows physicists may not know what it actually is,…
A super-Earth just 25 light-years away sits in its star's habitable zone — but teeters on a razor's edge where its atmosphere co…
This June, Venus and Jupiter shine together after sunset, the Moon covers Venus, and the Summer Triangle rises. NASA's complete Ju…
NASA-backed scientists found Earth got phosphorus and nitrogen from nearby space rocks, not distant comets. Jupiter's gravity was …
Scientists watched fish brains predict social behavior seconds before it happened. The discovery reveals how a tiny brain region c…
NASA spotted a glowing X-ray dot 11.8 billion light-years away that could finally explain hundreds of mysterious 'little red dots'…
Climate change is shifting when floods arrive, not just how bad they are. Over 5 billion people face disrupted flood seasons. Here…
A tiny bug trapped in ancient amber has crab-like claws never seen before in fossil insects — and it rewrites what we thought we…