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Figure showing integration of sex-biased subcellular clusters with tissue-specific gene-regulatory networks. Credit: Katyayani Sukhavasi

New Study Unveils How Carotid Artery Plaque Differs Between Men and Women—And Why It Matters

(a) Schematic of the experimental setup featuring a cylindrical granular particles—small solid rods made of quartz (b) Displacement field within a single particle as a function of contact position (μ). (The dashed box highlights the displacement pattern associated with the polarization-protected BIC.). Credit: POSTECH

A Century-Old Physics Mystery Solved: Scientists Trap Mechanical Waves Inside a Single Particle

High-resolution measurements of the coherent flows from cell collectives. Credit: Benjamin H. Andersen et al/Nature Physics.

Universal Conformal Invariance Discovered in Living Cell Motion

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll

The Final Breath of a Dying Star: The Story Behind the Enigmatic Beauty of Kohoutek 4-55

Artist's impression of the accretion disc around the massive black hole Ansky and its interaction with a small celestial object. Credit: European Space Agency

Ansky: The Sleeping Giant of Virgo Awakens

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Andromeda’s Lopsided Entourage: A Cosmic Anomaly Defying Expectations

Two prominent X-ray sources X1 and X2 in Haro 11 associated with star-forming regions Knots B and C. Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449388

Galactic Firestorm Illuminates Cosmic Reionization Mystery

Matteo Paz with Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum. Credit: California Institute of Technology

The High Schooler Who Found 1.5 Million Hidden Objects in Space: The Story of Matteo Paz and His Cosmic Algorithm

Capturing ensembles encoding mechanical and heat pain in the spinal dorsal horn. Credit: Zhang et al. (Nature Neuroscience, 2025).

New Research Uncovers Specialized Pain Circuits in the Spinal Cord

Understanding the genetic basis of human pelvic proportions and how they impact locomotion, pelvic floor function, and childbirth. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adq1521

New Study Reveals Trade-Offs Between Hip Width, Childbirth, and Mobility

Conversion occurring in a nanometric system of two photons into an entangled state in their total angular momentum. Credit: Shalom Buberman, Shultzo3d

Researchers Discover a New Form of Entanglement in Photons’ Total Angular Momentum

Researchers found those with cannabis use disorder exhibited an increase of neuromelanin (blacker spots) in a particular region of the midbrain associated with psychosis –the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental areas. Credit: Jess Ahrens; Image design by Rob Potter/Western Communications

Cannabis Use Linked to Elevated Dopamine Levels and Psychosis Risk

A digital twin could help scientists study the inner workings of the brain. Credit: Emily Moskal/Stanford Medicine

AI Creates High-Fidelity Digital Twins of Mouse Brains

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Blood Test Predicts Preeclampsia Months Early

Macrophages killing a cancer cell. Credit: Susan Arnold and Raowf Guirguis / National Cancer Institute

Researchers Discover “Master Switch” to Reprogram Cancer-Supporting Immune Cells

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New Study Reveals Crucial Protein Modification for Viral Defense

Anatomical characterization of contributions to sevoflurane-induced loss of functional identifiability. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02121-9

What Happens to Your Brain’s Identity Under Anesthesia? The Science of Losing and Regaining the Self

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Probiotics and Your Emotions: How “Good” Bacteria Could Brighten Your Mood

The most common carrier of the hantavirus in North America is the deer mouse. Credit: David M. Gascoigne.

The Silent Killer: Hantavirus’s Hidden Epidemic and the Climate Connection

This illustration provided by researchers in April 2025 depicts a Denisovan male in Taiwan in the Pleistocene era about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. Credit: Cheng-Han Sun via AP

Ancient Jawbone Reveals Denisovan Presence in Taiwan

An illustration depicts an unexpectedly strong attraction between electrons in neighboring lattice sites within a 1D chain of copper oxide, or cuprate—a material that conducts electrical current with no loss at relatively high temperatures in their 2D counterparts. In a recent study, Stanford and SLAC scientists used X-rays to examine the behavior of pairs of spinons—quasiparticles that represent an electron's spin. This experiment provides further evidence of an unusually strong attractive force not captured by the Hubbard model, the leading theory for predicting electron behavior in solids. Authors say the model fails to explain electron dynamics in cuprates, even in simplified, one-dimensional systems. Credit: SCI-HUA

New Study Challenges Long-Standing Model of High-Temperature Superconductivity

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Quantum Computers Are Poised to Solve Nature’s Deepest Mysteries

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Quantum Computers Simulate Exotic Magnetic State, Outperforming Classical Methods

How a stripped star might be detectable by the LISA observatory. Credit: Olejak, et al

Quiet Deaths: Helium Stars Spiraling into Supermassive Black Holes

Primary screen against CYP3A4. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58749-8

Scientists Crack the Code to Target CYP3A4 Without Off-Target Chaos

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What is the Internet? Everything You Need to Know

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of what is thought to be the first-ever recorded planetary engulfment event revealed a hot accretion disk surrounding the star, with an expanding cloud of cooler dust enveloping the scene. Webb also revealed that the star did not swell to swallow the planet, but the planet’s orbit actually slowly depreciated over time, as seen in this artist’s concept. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, R. Crawford (STScI)

Cosmic Death Spiral: Webb Unveils Planet’s Doomed Orbit

Velocities of massive star candidates within the SMC shown as vectors. The colors of the arrows represent the direction of motion. Relative to the LMC, located at the bottom left of the image, most red arrows show movement towards the LMC, whereas most light blue arrows show movement away from the LMC, suggesting they are being pulled apart. Credit: Satoya Nakano

The Small Magellanic Cloud’s Destructive Dance

NuSTAR light curve of 4U 1907+09 in 3-79 keV energy range. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.02791

NuSTAR Reveals New Mysteries of the 4U 1907+09 X-ray Binary

The final SPIRE Dark Field image map created by combining the Blue (250 micrometers), Green (350 micrometers) and Red (500 micrometers) SPIRE camera channels together, each channel stacking a total of 141 individual images on top of each other. The blobs on the image are all individual galaxies or groups of galaxies. However, the image is so crowded that there is almost no empty space with the faintest galaxies merging into the background light in the map. Credit: Chris Pearson et al.

Astronomers Discover Ghostly Galaxies in Infrared Abyss