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Observed MEGA galaxies have a lot of variation in color and morphology, giving insight into the galaxies' ages, dust content and star formation. Credit: NASA/JWST/Backhaus

Galaxies Grow Up in the JWST’s Deepest Look Into Cosmic Noon

This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope exquisitely captures Uranus's seasonal north polar cap and dim inner and outer rings. This Webb image also shows 9 of the planet's 27 moons—clockwise starting at 2 o'clock, they are: Rosalind, Puck, Belinda, Desdemona, Cressida, Bianca, Portia, Juliet, and Perdita. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

When Uranus Blocks a Star: NASA’s Cosmic Glimpse into an Ice Giant’s Hidden World

A hybrid multiqubit node-based diamond color centers in a large-scale quantum network. Credit: Chang et al.

Building Tomorrow’s Internet: The Race to Master Scalable Quantum Networks

An artist's impression of gravitational waves. Credit: NOIRLab. https://noirlab.edu/public/images/GravitationalWaves/.

Scientists Challenge Old Assumptions in Gravitational Wave Analysis

ATCA image at 5,500 MHz of MC SNR J0519–6902. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.11746

Echoes of a Cosmic Explosion: Probing the Mysteries of Supernova Remnant MC SNR J0519–6902

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Cosmic Chemistry and the Origins of Life: Prebiotic Molecules Born Among the Stars

Al Mannering in St Bathans. Credit: University of Canterbury

Ancient Titans of the Stream: New Zealand’s Giant Freshwater Crayfish Unearthed

While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have been a swimmer, a closer look at its fossils showed that it actually lived in trees. Public domain image by SeismicShrimp via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Discovery Shows 166-Million-Year-Old Reptile Lived in Trees

Some 215 million years ago in what is now northwestern Argentina, the terrestrial crocodylomorph Hemiprotosuchus leali prepares to devour the early mammal relative Chaliminia musteloides. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez

Ancient Crocodilians Survived Mass Extinctions Through Flexible Diets

New dinosaur footprints dubbed Ruopodosaurus clava were made by armored ankylosaurid dinosaurs. While the exact species that made these footprints is unknown, it was likely similar to Gobisaurus or Jinyunpelta, both known from China. Credit: Sydney Mohr.

The Lost Giant with a Mace: Uncovering Ruopodosaurus clava in the Canadian Rockies

Synthesis and determination of 7′.(A) Synthesis of carbenoid 6′ and carbene 7′. The reaction is clean and quantitative when LiHMDS is used as a base and pure THF as the solvent. (B) Three-dimensional space-filling model. (C) Thermal ellipsoid plot drawn to the 50% probability. Color code: C, gray; B, brown; N, blue; Cl, green. Note that two Li(THF)4+ countercations are omitted for clarity. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr9681

Water, Carbon, and the Ghost Molecule: How Chemists Brought a 67-Year-Old Theory to Life

Cross-validation of annual river flow reconstruction and climate model simulations compared to observed river flows for the Po River at Pontelagoscuro from 1920 to 2012. Credit: AGU Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1029/2024AV001393

When Rivers Remember the Long History of Drought in Northern Italy

A schematic view of the pump-induced stimulated superradiant Smith-Purcell radiation (PIS-SPR) device, which consists of the electron pre-bunching, electron-compression and harmonic-emission section. Based on PIS-SPR, the free electron beam is well bunched and ultra-narrow spectral linewidth at THz frequency region has been observed. Credit: eLight (2025). DOI: 10.1186/s43593-025-00083-z

Scientists Create Handheld Device That Produces Ultra-Narrow Terahertz Radiation

Development of anomalous Hall angle of magnetic materials (main image) and the comparison of sensing parameters between conventional magnetic metals and our magnetic topological semimetal (inset image). Credit: Yang et al.

Magnetic Topological Materials Deliver Record Hall Angle Performance

$A "map" of the zoo: quantum states emerging in samples of twisted molybdenum ditelluride. The peaks correspond to different fractional charges. Credit: Columbia University$

Groundbreaking Discovery Expands the Quantum Zoo with Magnet-Free States

Pictured is a G299, a remnant left over from a Type Ia supernova, a type of cosmic explosion that helped develop a precise account of dark energy and dark matter. Credit: NASA/CXC/U.Texas

The Local Bubble: Living in a Supernova-Blasted Cavity of Space

To capture an image of the exoplanet without the star, the new coronagraph design uses a mode sorter to isolate and eliminate light from the star and an inverse mode sorter to recompose the optical field after the starlight is rejected. Credit: Nico Deshler, University of Arizona

New Telescope Technology Could Detect Earth-Like Worlds Hidden in Bright Star Systems

Optical images of J1343+3644. The field of view of the image is 1 × 1 arcmin, where north is the top and east is left. The image is obtained from the Legacy survey sky-server. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.09801

Tiny Galaxy Undergoes Dramatic Transformation in Deep Space

Dark matter in the Perseus Cluster. The distribution of dark matter (in blue) is overlayed on an image taken by Hyper Sprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. The newly detected subcluster located near the galaxy NGC 1264 lies about 1.4 million light-years to the west (right side of the image) of Perseus’s central galaxy, NGC 1275. A faint bridge connects the two structures. Credit: HyeongHan et al

Astronomers Discover Long Lost Collision in the Heart of the Perseus Cluster

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What Is Natural Selection and How Does It Work?

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The Biological Clock: How Circadian Rhythms Affect You

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Why Some Animals Can Regrow Limbs

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The Role of RNA in COVID-19 Vaccines

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How Vaccines Train Your Immune System

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What Are Transgenic Organisms and Why They Matter

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Biology of Twins: How Identical Are Identical Twins?

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What Is the Human Genome Project and Why It Still Matters

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How Plants Sense the World Around Them

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What Is Genetic Mutation and Is It Always Bad?

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The Secret Life of Cells: A Microscopic Adventure