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How AI Learns—And What That Means for Us

Emergence and surveillance of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b genotypes in Canada. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adu4909

Bird Flu Is Evolving Faster Than We Thought and Flying Across Continents

Research framework: Exploring cartilage smRNA and regeneration in OA. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adu8440

The Ankle’s Hidden Superpower Could Transform Arthritis Treatment

Human retinal organoids display accelerated neuronal differentiation. (A) Control human retinal organoids at day 60 were stained with MAP2 (red) to label retinal neurons and DAPI (blue) to label cell nuclei (scale bars = 50 µM). Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads5006

COVID-19’s Hidden Trail to Alzheimer’s Uncovered in the Eye

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This Skin Patch Could Warn You Before Dehydration Strikes

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Taking Your Blood Pressure Pill at Night Might Save Your Life

This is what Novaculadon mirabilis may have looked like. The spots and stripes are speculative. Likely this animal could have sat in one hand. The lower jaw is just 16.5 mm long, only 4 mm longer than that of a mouse jaw. Credit: Hamzah Imran.

Tiny Jawbone Unlocks Secrets of Ancient Mammals Hidden for 145 Million Years

By analyzing trace fossils like Psammichnites, researchers have been able to determine how animals lived and moved more than half a billion years ago. Credit: Ziwei Zhao and Dr Xiaoya Ma

When Life Began to Crawl The Secret Story Behind the Cambrian Explosion

Image of a plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur, Thescelosaurus during the latest Cretaceous Period, nearly 67 million years ago. These around 10–12 foot long two-legged animals roamed the tropical swamps, forests and floodplains where Denver now stands. Their vertebrae are similar to the one found in the rock core deep below the Museum. Credit: Andrey Atuchin, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Buried Secrets Unearthed as Dinosaur Fossil Found Deep Below Denver

Photographs of the four donkey burials of Stratum E5c in Area E at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Credit: Arnold et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

These Donkeys Traveled From Egypt to Die in a Sacred Ceremony

CHIME J1634+44: Sample of a detection made with the CHIME/Pulsar instrument. Credit: Dong et al., 2025.

Astronomers Discover a Spinning Radio Mystery in the Milky Way

Left: spin-majority mobile carriers can flow through the immobile same-spin charge background in filled Landau levels. Right: spin-minority carriers at the Fermi levels is localized due to interactions with the opposite-spin charges in the filled Landau levels. Credit: Shih et al

This Ultra-Thin Crystal Sorts Electrons by Spin and It Could Revolutionize Electronics

An early 13th-century-AD (likely biased) depiction of the 'pagan' Irish kingship ceremony, during which the king bathed in the blood of a mare before sharing the meat with his courtiers. From Topographia Hibernica by Giraldus Cambrensis. Credit: British Library Royal MS 13 B. VIII f. 28v; reproduced under Creative Commons license CC0 1.0

Ancient Horse Bones Shatter Myths About Medieval Christian Diets

When astronomers first observed it with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), they saw a smooth, planet-free disc, shown here in the right image. The team, led by Álvaro Ribas, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, UK, gave this star another chance and re-observed it with ALMA at longer wavelengths that probe even deeper into the protoplanetary disc than before. These new observations, shown in the left image, revealed a gap and a ring that had been obscured in previous observations, suggesting that MP Mus might have company after all. Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Ribas et al.

A Star’s Subtle Dance Leads Astronomers to a Giant Baby Planet

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Is Conscious AI Closer Than We Think?

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The Secret Language AI Systems Use to Talk to Each Other

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What Happens Inside an AI’s “Mind”?

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Can a Machine Ever Truly Think Like a Human?

An artist’s depiction of the relative sizes of the sun, a low mass star, a brown dwarf, Jupiter, and the Earth. Sizes are to scale, but distances are not. Credit: Jupiter: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (NASA, GSFC). Sun and Low-Mass Star: NASA, SDO. Brown Dwarf: NASA, ESA, and JPL-Caltech. Earth: NASA. Infographic: NASA and E. Wheatley (STScI)

Scientists May Have Found the Secret to Detecting Dark Matter

Summary of key findings. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr3228

A Hidden RNA Molecule Could Explain Why Depression Affects Women More

Artistic image evoking the purpose of the study and created by Misha Tsodyks using LLMs. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/g1cz-wk1l

How Your Brain Builds Stories with Math and Memory

Molecular structure of the new 20-electron ferrocene derivative, highlighting nitrogen (blue), iron (orange), hydrogen (green), and carbon (grey) atoms. Credit: Modified from Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61343-7

Breaking the 18-Electron Rule to Unlock New Frontiers in Chemistry

Rice University researchers and collaborators have developed a new coating for glass could help reduce energy bills, especially during the cold season, by preventing heat-loss from leaky windows. Credit: Jorge Vidal / Rice University

New Glass Coating Could Slash Your Heating Bills This Winter

Stylized elk. Credit: Gary Tepfer in Jacobson-Tepfer 2025

Ancient Art Transforms Elk into Mythical Creatures of the Mongolian Altai

Relationship of Greenland dogs to global dogs. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adu1990

The Decline of Greenland’s Last Sled Dogs and the Legacy of Arctic Survival

Elephants used distinct gesture types to communicate that they want apples. Credit: Royal Society Open Science (2025) . DOI: 10.1098/rsos.242203

Elephants Show They Can Communicate with Intent Through Gestures

Credit: IEEE Photonics Journal (2025). DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2025.3561087

Scientists Create the First Ever Room Temperature Laser with Game-Changing Features

An egg-bearing blue crab found near Oyster, Virginia. Scientists believe the presence of an egg-eating parasitic worm may aid in the management of the fishery by revealing the number of times a crab has spawned. Credit: Alex Schneider

How Egg-Eating Worms Could Save Chesapeake Bay’s Blue Crabs

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The Polar Vortex Secrets That Bring Unexpected Cold to the U.S.

An example of Step-1 Image Preparation for the single-thread Purus River near Canutama (BR). A) NASA/USGS Landsat annual composite generated for the reach. B) Zoomed-in view of the annual composite along a riverbend. C) Binary masks of the river for the zoomed-in view, shaded in terms of the 25 four levels of confidence for surface-water presence. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.ads6567

Why Some Rivers Flow Alone and Others Split Into Many Threads