99-Million-Year History of ‘Zombie’ Fungi: Amber Reveals Ophiocordyceps Infecting Insects Since the Cretaceous
Ancient amber captures a gruesome parasitic relationshipNearly 100 million years ago, a drop of tree resin preserved an ...
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Uranus May Emit More Internal Heat Than Previously Believed, New Models Suggest
Uranus’ thermal mystery: a planet unlike the othersUranus stands out in the Solar System: it rolls on its side so each p...
Ghost Proteins and Long COVID: SARS-CoV-2 Peptides Found in Blood Extracellular Vesicles Suggest Persistent Viral Reservoirs
Introduction: A measurable signal for long COVID?Researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) a...
James Webb Reveals Planet-Building Materials Survive in Extreme Ultraviolet Environments
JWST Detects a Planet-Forming Disk in a UV-Extreme Stellar NurseryUsing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and advanc...
Acoustic Rainbow: 3D-Printed Device Separates Sound into Spatial Pitches
Acoustic rainbow: turning white noise into ordered pitchesA compact plastic device developed by researchers at the Techn...
Fifty Years On: Magnetic Field Maps Solve the PKS 1424+240 ‘Eye of Sauron’ Jet Mystery
Discovery and the enduring puzzlePKS 1424+240 is a blazar—an active galactic nucleus powered by a supermassive black hol...
SpaceX Will Skip the Dramatic 'Catch' on Starship’s 10th Flight — Here’s Why
Starship’s 10th Test Flight: What to ExpectSpaceX is preparing for the 10th test flight of Starship, the massive 121-met...
Temporary ISG15 Suppression Recreated in Animals Could Provide Short-Term, Broad Antiviral Protection
a rare genetic anomaly with outsized antiviral effectsA rare human genetic variant — a deficiency in the interferon-stim...
Scientists Create First Bacterium Using a 57‑Codon Genetic Code
A radically rewritten genetic codeResearchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) ...
CRISPR-Edited Islet Transplant Restores Insulin Production Without Immunosuppression in First Human Case
Background: why this matters for type 1 diabetesType 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition in which the body's immune sy...
How Weaver Ants Defy the Ringelmann Effect: Superefficient Teamwork and the 'Force Ratchet' Mechanism
When more really is differentAnts are among nature's most accomplished cooperative engineers. For decades, researchers h...
Metal-Free Motors: KIST Demonstrates Carbon Nanotube Coils for Lightweight Electric Motors
Breakthrough: Electric Motors without Metal ConductorsA research team led by Dr. Dae-Yoon Kim at the Korea Institute of ...
Scientists Identify Bacterial Cause of Sea Star Wasting: Vibrio pectenicida Behind Mass Die-Offs
New evidence pins a bacterium to the global sea star die-offBillions of sea stars have perished in a modern marine epide...
Mysterious Giant Signals Possible First Detection of a Black Hole Trinary in GW190814 Data
Unusual Acceleration in GW190814 Points to a Third Black HoleA new reanalysis of gravitational-wave data from the LIGO-V...
Hair-Derived Keratin Toothpaste May Repair Enamel and Outperform Fluoride, Study Finds
Keratin from Hair and Wool: A New Path for Enamel RepairScientists report that keratin — the structural protein abundant...
Two-Headed Hyphalosaurus: Oldest Known Case of Axial Bifurcation from the Early Cretaceous
Discovery and descriptionHyphalosaurus, a small aquatic reptile from the Early Cretaceous, is well represented in the fo...
How Neutrinos Could Solve the Mystery of the Universe’s Missing Antimatter
Why the Universe Is Made of Matter — and Why That’s a ProblemEverything visible around us — from soil and stones to star...
Why SpaceX’s Last Two Starships Failed — FAA Signs Off as Flight 10 Readies for Launch
Overview: Flight 10 and the path to recoverySpaceX is moving forward with preparations for the 10th full-scale Starship ...
Boil and Strain: A Simple Household Method That Cuts Microplastics from Tap Water
Tiny plastic fragments — microplastics and nanoplastics (collectively NMPs) — are increasingly detected in potable tap w...
JWST Detects Candidate Gas Giant in the Habitable Zone of Alpha Centauri A
Nearby discovery: a possible habitable-zone world around our Sun’s twinObservations with the James Webb Space Telescope ...