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Screening at 45 Shows Strong Results in Colorectal Cancer Prevention

Maps show projected sea surface temperature trends over 2015-2099 due to moderate-high greenhouse gas emissions. The upper map includes a model where winds can't change the ocean circulation, and the lower one shows the same model with wind-driven changes. Credit: Kay McMonigal

The Strange Patch of Ocean That’s Cooling While the World Heats Up

Illustration of photon-photon scattering in the laboratory. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus with a third red beam to polarize the quantum vacuum. This allows a fourth blue laser beam to be generated, with a unique direction and color, which conserves momentum and energy. Credit: Zixin (Lily) Zhang.

New Simulations Reveal How Light Can Collide and Create More Light

Spiral magnetic order (light blue arrows) on the triangular lattice of NiI2 (black spheres represent Ni atoms) enables electrically switchable (white jagged lines) p-wave magnetism. Spin-up (orange dots) and spin-down (blue dots) electrons propagate in opposite directions and reverse their paths when the handedness of the spiral magnetic order is switched (left vs. right). Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Physicists Discover Exotic Spiral Magnetism That Flips with Electricity

Summary of the evolution of multiferroics. Credit: Jiang et al

Electricity Awakens Magnetism in Breakthrough Multiferroic Materials

This artist's conception shows a disk of dust and gas surrounding a young star with a large cavity carved out by a forming giant planet. The warm methanol gas tracing the dust cavity wall is highlighted. These molecules originate from ices rich in organic matter that are heated by radiation from the star, forming gas. The detection of methanol, as well as the methanol isotopes, supports the idea that interstellar ices can survive the formation of planet-forming disks. Credit: CfA/M. Weiss

Astronomers Uncover Rare Alcohol in Alien Planet Nursery That Could Explain How Life Began

Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 billion years ago. Credit: M. Franco / C. Casey / COSMOS-Web collaboration

James Webb Telescope Reveals Nearly 800,000 Galaxies Changing Our View of the Infant Universe

Two released Yangtze finless porpoises (YFPs) were photographed with a local individual on the third day post-release. Credit: Biology Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0719

Two Porpoises Swim Free Again in the Yangtze After Years of Care

A Ngogo chimpanzee, named Damien by researchers, whose data was used in a recent study on human disease transmission to chimps. The study found that protocols such as quarantining and masking can help prevent outbreaks by human diseases among chimps, addressing a longstanding issue in wildlife conservation. Credit: Jacob Negrey/School of Anthropology

When Human Viruses Kill Chimps and What We Can Do to Stop It

Graphical abstract. Credit: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2025.115563

New Study Reveals Tides and Offshore Solar Hold Untapped Climate Power

African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in Tanzania. Credit: Juan López Cantalapiedra

How Giant Herbivores Kept Earth’s Ecosystems Alive for 60 Million Years

CIZA J2242.8+5301 at 45 MHz, shown at the LBA nominal resolution (15′′ beam). Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.23402

Sausage Cluster Reveals Ancient Cosmic Shockwaves in Deep Radio Scan

Machine learning speeds up a key stage in the search for materials for protective electrolyte coatings for solid-state batteries, a promising energy storage technology for safer electric vehicles with a longer range. Credit: Liubov Savenkova.

The Neural Network That Could Power Tomorrow’s Electric Vehicles

Illustration of safe battery design: Safe LIBs incorporate a thermoresponsive electrolyte operating normally at room temperature. Credit: IMDEA Materials Institute.

Scientists Develop Lithium Battery That Reacts to Heat Like a Brain

Credit: Bryan Sangwoo Kim et al

New AI Technology Lets You Zoom In Deeply Without Losing Image Quality

High-speed navigation on complex and discrete terrains. Credit: Hyeongjun Kim

Korean Engineers Build Four-Legged Robot That Masters Parkour

The self-healing and stretchable electronic modules consist of three main components: a tactile sensor array (left), an active matrix (center), and a light-emitting capacitor display array (right). When the tactile sensor is touched by a thin, pointed object, the mechanical touch information is immediately transmitted through the active matrix to the corresponding display, where it is visually represented in blue. This process can be intuitively understood as analogous to how our brain perceives external stimuli on the skin. Credit: Professor Donghee Son.

South Korean Scientists Unveil Stretchable Circuits That Heal Themselves Inside the Body

The Krakencoder's many arms align and fuse complementary maps of brain connectivity. Credit: Keith Jamison

Cracking the Brain’s Code with Krakencoder Brings Scientists Closer to Understanding Human Thought

Cleaning the brain. A green tracer fluid flows through the brain's glymphatic system, a recently discovered waste disposal system. The system moves waste along the outer edges of the brain's blood vessels (red). Credit: Kai Chen

How Scientists Are Teaching the Brain to Clean Itself and Fight Alzheimer’s

Measuring distances between genes. Credit: Generated with DDG DaVinci2 model from prompt by Nicolas Posunko/Skoltech PR.

Generative AI Reconstructs DNA’s 3D Shape for the First Time

Graphical abstract. Credit: Nature Chemical Engineering (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00219-5

Scientists Create Smart Pen That Detects Parkinson’s Through Handwriting

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Satri-cel Therapy Nearly Doubles Survival in Advanced Gastric Cancer Patients

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P2Y12 Inhibitors May Outperform Aspirin in Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes

Big Bang, conceptual image. Computer illustration representing the origin of the universe. The term Big Bang describes the initial expansion of all the matter in the universe from an infinitely compact state 13.7 billion years ago. The initial conditions are not known, but less than a second after the beginning, temperatures were trillions of degrees Celsius and the primordial universe was much smaller than an atom. It has been expanding and cooling ever since. Matter formed and coalesced into the galaxies, which are observed to be moving away from each other. Background radiation in the universe is considered a remnant of the Big Bang.

What If the Big Bang Wasn’t the Beginning?

Male (left) and female (right) maritime earwigs (Anisolabis maritima). Credit: Junji Konuma

Scientists Discover Female Earwigs Evolved Weapons Too

The shape of the sea: waves crashing

What Caused the 2023 North Atlantic Marine Heatwave? The Alarming Story Behind the Ocean’s Sudden Fever

Illustration of a new strategy to create materials with robust quantum properties, by harnessing magnetic interactions (represented by the red and blue arrows). The small green spheres represent sites where electrons can reside and move along the chain. Special magnetic atoms (purple spheres with arrows) interact with the electrons at certain sites, shown by the blueish clouds. These interactions create protected edge states (green cloud) that could help make quantum computers more stable and less sensitive to noise. Credit: Jose L. Lado

New Quantum Material Could Shield Qubits from Disturbance and Make Quantum Computers Practical

Extracting work from a multi-time quantum process. The process is represented by the upper green comb, and the work extraction protocol by the lower grey comb. Credit: Guilherme Zambon & Gerardo Adesso.

New Study Reveals Memory Effects Can Supercharge Quantum Work Extraction

The study is part of Henna Kokkonen's doctoral thesis. Credit: Tommi Sassi

Scientists Witness a Rare Nuclear Phenomenon for the First Time in 30 Years

Artists Impression of the newly discovered giant planet—TOI-6894 b orbiting around a 0.2 solar mass host star. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick

Giant Planet Shocks Scientists Orbiting Tiny Star