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Study Warns Climate Change Is Already Cutting Global Crop Yields

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Oxygen’s Silent Hand: How Marine Redox Shaped Trilobite Body Size in Deep Time

Western drywood termite colony. Credit: Dong-Hwan Choe / UCR

Scientists Discover Potent Weapon Against Stealthy Termites

The configuration of the cores in terms of EPA (a) and AOB (b), and the placement of the core within the mechanical flaking apparatus (c) Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02222-6

Neanderthal Toolmaking: Revealing the Hidden Skill Behind the Strike

a. Pampore elephant site. b. Elephant skull under excavation. Credit: Quaternary Science Reviews (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108894

The Ancient Elephant Hunters of Kashmir Valley

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Bond Polarity: Why Water Is So Special

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VSEPR Theory Explained with Easy Diagrams

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What Are Intermolecular Forces? (With Real-Life Examples)

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Why We’re All Made of Star Dust

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What Would Happen If the Sun Suddenly Vanished?

Ammonia gas infalling into accretion disk feeding Cepheus A HW2. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/B. Saxton

Unveiling the Birth of a Cosmic Giant: HW2 and the Secret Life of Massive Stars

The averaged continuum image of G24.33+0.14 from NOEMA. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.19782

Cosmic Cooling: Chinese Astronomers Witness Aftermath of Stellar Outburst in G24.33+0.14

Credit: Gabriel Perez Diaz/Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias/W. M. Keck Observatory

Astronomers Use Keck to Listen to a 10-Billion-Year-Old Star

Microscopy images indicate a plethora of abnormal RNAs (yellow) in fibroblast cells from a patient with an Integrator mutation, left, compared to normal cells, right. Credit: Apoorva Baluapuri

New Study Reveals How Faulty RNA Quality Control May Lead to Cancer, Neurodegeneration

A new study from WashU Medicine examines the choices healthy research volunteers make when given the opportunity to learn their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease dementia. The researchers found a large discrepancy between the percentage of participants who said they would like to learn their risk if such estimates became available and the percentage who followed through to learn those results when given the actual opportunity. Credit: Sara Moser/WashU Medicine

Study Reveals Hesitation Around Alzheimer’s Risk Results

A playground scene in the virtual world of Tiny Town. Credit: Dilks lab, Emory University

Neuroscientists Discover Early Development of Map-Based Navigation in Children as Young as Five

A comparison of healthy human neurons with neurons of a Huntington's disease patient where GSK3ß and ERK1 were upregulated. Credit: Krzystek and Gunawardena/University at Buffalo

The Cellular Traffic War in Huntington’s Disease

Credit: Autism Research (2025). DOI: 10.1002/aur.70049

Study Finds Finger Movements Can Reveal Autism with 85% Accuracy

Muscle membranes fluorescently labeled in zebrafish, allowing measurement of muscle size. Credit: King's College London

Night Shift May Age Your Muscles Faster, New Study Warns

The Health Octo Tool is comprised of eight components designed to assess multidimensional health. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58819-x

Scientists Develop Eight-Metric System to Decode the Pace of Human Aging

cMRIs at the age of 5 weeks (a), 17 weeks (b) and 36 weeks (c and d). Credit: Nature Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03656-0

Experimental Genetic Therapy Halts Seizures in Preterm Infant with Rare Epilepsy

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Why Space Is Not Completely Silent

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The Sound of Space: What Can We Hear?

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What Is a Day on Different Planets Like?

This artist's concept shows what the hot sub-Neptune exoplanet TOI-421 b could look like. TOI-421 b orbits a sun-like star roughly 244 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus (the Hare). The planet is in between Earth and Neptune in terms of size, mass, and density, and its star is slightly smaller and cooler than the sun. However, because the planet orbits extremely close to the star (just 0.056 astronomical units, or 5.6% of the distance between Earth and the sun), it is very hot. Spectroscopic observations of TOI-421 b captured by NIRISS (Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph) and NIRSpec (Near Infrared Spectrograph) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show strong evidence for water (H2O) and the possible presence of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) in the planet's hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Unlike cooler sub-Neptunes, TOI-421 b appears to have a clear atmosphere that is not shrouded in clouds and haze. This artist's concept is based on spectroscopic data gathered by Webb, as well as previous observations from other telescopes on the ground and in space. Webb has not captured any images of the planet. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Dani Player (STScI)

James Webb Unveils Secrets of TOI-421 b, a Clear-Skied Sub-Neptune

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy called Arp 184 or NGC 1961. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), C. Kilpatrick

Hubble Captures a Lopsided Marvel: The Twisted Beauty of Galaxy Arp 184

Singular black hole and non-singular alternatives. Credit: Sissa Medialab. Background image sourced from ESO/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (eso.org/public/images/eso1101a/)

No More Singularity? Physicists Propose New Black Hole Paradigms

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How We’re Searching for Habitable Exoplanets

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How Microbes Survive in Space

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Why Earth Is So Rare (And Lucky)