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Credit: Renewable Energy (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2025.123549

Bladeless Wind Turbines Could Quietly Transform Urban Energy

On the left, the simulated environment containing a cuboid placed on a plane and observed by a camera, placed directly above the object at varying distances. On the right, an example of the dataset elements used to train the model: an image and textual prompt as input, with the spatial relationship between the cuboid and camera represented as a transformation matrix as the desired output. Credit: Gioele Migno.

Teaching Robots to See the World Through Human Eyes

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The Brain’s Secret Weapon Against Neuron Loss

Schematic of the different marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) methods discussed in this study. Pink shading indicates possible reduction in dissolved oxygen resulting from the respective open-ocean biotic mCDR activity via enhanced respiration in the water column, green shading for iron fertilization and artificial upwelling indicates fertilization-induced enhanced photosynthesis in the surface waters. Inserts indicate the mCDR-induced additional O2 production (green) and O2 consumption (white). Credit: Environmental Research Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ade0d4

Ocean Carbon Fixes Could Make Marine Life Suffocate

Overall structure of the iRhom2–ADAM17 zymogen complex. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2500732122

Scientists Visualize Hidden Protein Structures That Drive Inflammation and Disease

Detecting photons through an entire adult head explores the limits of photon transport in the brain, for access to regions of the brain currently inaccessible with noninvasive optical brain imaging. Credit: J. Radford et al., DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.12.2.025014

Light Travels Through a Human Head for the First Time

Ocean Acidification planetary boundary. Credit: Global Change Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70238

Parts of Earth’s Oceans Have Quietly Crossed a Dangerous Threshold

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Spinning Skies: How Earth’s Rotation Shapes Our Weather

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The Importance of Biodiversity in Earth’s Ecosystem

Atmosphere carbon exchange cycle in nature, planet earth ecology science vector illustration diagram scene with ocean, animals, plants and industrial factory. Educational information poster.

Understanding Earth’s Carbon Cycle and Its Role in Climate Regulation

The History and Future of Earth’s Climate

Stromboli, Sicily, Italy: Active vents of the Stromboli Volcano that produce lava splashes, also called spattering in technical jargon

How Volcanic Eruptions Impact Local and Global Climates

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What Is Geothermal Energy and How Does It Work?

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Exploring Earth’s Natural Resources and Their Sustainability

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How Does Solar Radiation Affect Our Planet?

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The Significance of Earth’s Atmosphere in Sustaining Life

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How Do Hurricanes Form and Why Are They So Destructive?

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Wearable Rings Catch Early Signs of Hypomania Days Before It Strikes

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Scientists Build Quantum Playground to Unravel the Secrets of Chiral Electron Spin

To calculate the stability of a solid whose atoms don't repeat in a sequence, the researchers simulated scoops of quasicrystal that were randomly sampled out of a larger block. The energy within each nanoparticle can be calculated using quantum mechanics because the particle has defined boundaries. Repeating the calculations over a range of scoop sizes allows the researchers to extrapolate their energy calculations to the bulk quasicrystal. Credit: Woohyeon Baek, Sun Research Group, University of Michigan.

Scientists Unlock the Hidden Order of Quasicrystals Once Thought Impossible

The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect radio waves from cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere. Credit: Stephanie Wissel / Penn State.

Mysterious Cosmic Signal Detected in Antarctica Defies Known Physics

The morphogenetical topology optimization method shapes the scattering inclusions, shown as gray material. When the ARE is excited by monopolar source emitting broad-band white noise, the radiated sound creates an acoustic rainbow. The source is positioned at the center of the emitter (illustrated using white light) and driven with equal power at all frequencies from 7,600 to 12,800 Hz. The experimentally measured acoustic output (far field) is mapped to the visible spectrum of light by its magnitude and frequency content in the full 360° surrounding the ARE. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads7497

Scientists Build a Device That Splits Sound into a Rainbow

Two images of the galaxy J0123+3044, taken with the EVN telescopes with (right) and without (left) MeerKAT. The galaxy is located in the constellation Pisces, and the light from it has taken 9 billion years to reach us. The combination of the two telescopes allows scientists to understand the structure of the beam. The field of view shows an area of the sky covering 5 millionths of a degree, the same size as a 50-meter-wide area on the moon. Credit: JIVE, SARAO

Earth-Sized Telescope Network Captures Sharpest Image of Distant Black Hole Jet

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Astronomers Uncover How Gas and Dust Evolve Differently in Planet Birth Zones

The extinct proboscidean species Notiomastodon platensis is observed feeding on Chilean palm fruit in La Campana National Park. Credit: Mauricio Álvarez

Lost Giants of South America Were Once Gardeners of the Ancient World

An idealized illustration of the Xiaohe burials with two types of posts. Left) Oval shaped end with extrusions. Right) Rounded end without extrusions. Credit: Asian Archaeology (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s41826-025-00105-2

Ancient Boat Coffins Unearthed in the Desert Reveal Secrets of a Forgotten Civilization

Skeletal representation (%MAU) of thrush remains from Pollentia. The color gradient indicates the relative abundance of skeletal elements, with darker shades representing higher %MAU values. Credit: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/oa.3416

Ancient Roman Fast Food Found in a Cesspit in Spain

Middle cerebral artery occlusion and gross neurological status upon HDACi treatment. Credit: Glia (2025). DOI: 10.1002/glia.70035

New Study Uncovers How Cancer Drugs Could Heal the Brain After Stroke

Metabolic divergence in intestinal lineages. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09097-6

Scientists Discover Metabolic Switch That Heals the Gut From Within

The endoU catalytic mutant H234A elicits increased accumulation of dsRNA in infected cells. (A) iAT2 cells infected with indicated viruses at an MOI of 0.3 were stained with anti-dsRNA antibody (green). Nuclei were counterstained with DAPI (blue). Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2426528122

Scientists Discover How COVID-19 Stays Invisible Inside the Body