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The Popular Sweetener That May Quietly Harm Your Brain’s Blood Vessels

Regional plots for SA with CP. Credit: Nature Mental Health (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44220-025-00397-4

New Study Reveals Brain Structure Can Predict Risk for Schizophrenia and Cognitive Ability

Global fMRI fluctuations are associated with systemic physiological changes. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01945-y.

Scientists Discover a Secret Brain Signal Tied to Your Heartbeat and Breath

Examples of experimental set-up and close-up of collective transport of prey and of obstacle-clearing behavior. Credit: E Fonio, D Mersch, O Feinerman

Ants That Think Ahead Clear Paths Before Trouble Arrives

The 2–6-day bandpass filtered variance for the daily averaged mean sea-level pressure (shading) and surface temperatures (curves) for January and the different AMOC scenarios. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1029/2025GL114611

Europe Could Freeze as Atlantic Current Nears Collapse

True color Sentinel-2 image of the Tijuana River Estuary and coastal ocean. This image (collected on 24 March 2023) captures a wastewater plume. Location of field deployed spectroradiometer is indicated with a yellow star. Credit: Science of The Total Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179598

NASA Satellite Spots Hidden Signs of Sewage Off California Coast

SW EEI per degree warming trends versus LW EEI trends per degree warming in CMIP6 models and CERES satellite data. Colors show climate sensitivity of each CMIP6 model. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adt0647. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt0647

New Satellite Data Shows Earth Is Heating Faster Than Predicted

Laser activation of tin-related defect centers. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60373-5

Scientists Watch Quantum Defects Switch On Inside Diamond for the First Time

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Global Warming Explained: Myths vs. Facts

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The Impact of Deforestation on Earth’s Ecosystem

Fossilized dinosaur bones and skull in the send.

What Are Fossils and What Do They Teach Us About Earth’s History?

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Exploring Earth’s Magnetic Field and Its Importance

Isometric Water cycle diagram.

How Does the Water Cycle Affect Our Environment?

The shape of the sea: waves crashing

The Silent Pulse of the Planet: The Role of Oceans in Earth’s Climate System

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Understanding Climate Change: Key Facts You Should Know

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What Causes Volcanic Eruptions? An In-Depth Guide

Top: Schematic of the bucket-brigade QRAM architecture and phonon routing operation at a single node, controlled by a transmon qubit. Bottom: Schematic design of the phonon router device. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.210601

Scientists Build Quantum Memory System That Listens to Sound Waves

One of the wolf cub siblings uncovered near Tumat. Credit: Mietje Germonpré, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

14,000-Year-Old Wolf Sisters Reveal Secrets of an Ice Age World

Various small shelly fossils recovered from the beds surrounding the Cambrian reefs. Scale bar is 1 mm. Credit: University of Missouri

Before Corals Took Over Sponge Like Creatures Built the First Reefs

Large dust grains observed surrounding outflows of young protostellar binary system L1551 IRS5. Credit: B. Saxton U.S. National Science Foundation/NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Dust Grains Ride Stellar Winds to Build Planets in Deep Space

Illustration of the mass scales at which wave optics effects become relevant for gravitationally lensed signals. The geometric optics regime is valid when the wavelength of the radiation is much smaller than the scale of the lensing potential. The wave optics regime is valid when the wavelength is comparable to the scale of the lensing potential. Because the wavelength of GWs detected by the current ground-based detectors is typically much larger than the wavelength of most light sources, wave optics effects can become relevant for lenses below ≲100M⊙. Since other GW detectors like LISA will be sensitive to even longer wavelengths, wave optics effects will be even more important. The precise mass scale also depends on the lensing configuration, such as the distance from the caustic, where wave optics effects can become more prominent close to a caustic when the magnification is large. Credit: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2024.0134

Astronomers Are Using Warped Light and Space Vibrations to Unlock Deep Cosmic Secrets

The phase-folded TESS light curve of TOI-2989. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.04923

Three Blazing Giant Planets Found Racing Around Distant Suns

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This Martian Mountain Could Hold the Secrets to Ancient Life on Mars

A Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4858, showing the stellar tendrils extending north from the barred spiral disk. The cold molecular gas in NGC 4858, seen by the ALMA radio telescope with its “bunny ear” inner tail, is shown in orange. Credit: ESA/Hubble

This Jellyfish Galaxy Is Fighting to Keep Its Stars in a Cosmic Windstorm

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been detected in interstellar clouds. Credit: JWST/NASA

James Webb Uncovers the Secret Life of Space-Born Molecules

House destroyed by the passage of a hurricane in Florida.

The Science Behind Earthquakes: Causes, Effects, and Predictions

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How Plate Tectonics Shaped the World We Live In

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10 Fascinating Facts About Earth’s Layers You Didn’t Know

A depressed woman sitting alone is a dark tunnel with light at the other end.

Kids Who Struggle to Remember Personal Events Face Higher Risk of Depression

two young asian adult women working out in gym using medicine balls.

Exercise Makes You Smarter at Any Age