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A Sea Worm’s Incredible “Bio-Metal” Jaws May Belong to an Entirely New Class of Material In the classic guessing game “20 Questions,” imagine asking “animal, vegetable, or mineral?” to help narrow down the answer. For the ancient sea worm Perinereis cultrifera (which is still around to this day), t…

Submillimeter Array Catches a Gamma-Ray Burst Thanks to new Fast-Response System The Submillimeter Array (SMA), an 8-telescope radio interferometer located near the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii, reached an important milestone early this year. On January 26th, 2026, scientists from the Harvard & Smit…

39 Sweeteners Put to the Test Produced Surprising Gut Changes Cambridge researchers have found that many widely used sweeteners can directly slow or alter the growth of bacteria found in the human gut. The strongest effect appeared when isosteviol, a sweetener used in foods and beverages, was combin…

Wearables to track plant health: Farmers could use real-time information to manage crop conditions A smartwatch can tell us the level of oxygen in our blood, when our sleep is restless or the number of steps we take in a day. Now imagine that kind of tracking ability for plants. By the time farmers …

The Ancient Survival Mechanism Making Weight Loss So Difficult For years, weight loss has been framed as a simple test of discipline: consume fewer calories and exercise more. Modern research, however, shows that body weight is regulated by powerful biological systems that cannot be reduced to willp…

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Tropical forests can switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources during El Niño Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores approximately 123 billion tons of carbon—more than is stored in any other terre…

NASA’s HiRISE Captures Perseverance Rover Completing a Marathon on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover has completed the equivalent of a full marathon on Mars, reaching 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) after five years and four months of driving across the Red Planet. The milestone came on the 1,890th Ma…

Scientists Have Identified a Key Driver of Age-Related Cognitive Decline The aging brain depends on a microscopic border that works every second to keep danger out and support the nerve cells inside. When that barrier begins to fail, memory, mood, and thinking may suffer. Andrew A. Pieper, MD, PhD, …

The US just approved a giant space mirror to test 'sunlight on demand.' Low Earth orbit is getting weird A giant mirror to create "sunlight on demand" was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), despite opposition from astronomers and the public, and real safety c…

Engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels Tissue engineers are finding ways to grow living organs and tissues from cells, with the aim of replacing diseased and damaged counterparts in the body. Scientists have successfully grown artificial muscles, livers, kidneys, skin and othe…

In search of life beyond our solar system: Atmosphere detected on a habitable-zone rocky world In a major milestone in the search for life on other planets, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of anot…

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Could Dark Matter Be Hiding in a Hidden Fifth Dimension? Every galaxy appears to carry far more mass than telescopes can see. That invisible material, known as dark matter, may be linked to a hidden fifth dimension whose geometry naturally shapes how dark matter particles behave, according to a theo…