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Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.| Science News
Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.| Science News
Scientists found thousands of patterned fish nests in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, boosting calls for marine protected areas.| Science News
The open-source AI model improves transparency in predicting how proteins interact with other molecules, which could speed up drug discovery.| Science News
Scientists have linked bipedalism to changes in how the human pelvis developed millions of years ago.| Science News
The story of Atlantic hurricanes is treading a familiar — and frightening — path: Climate change is fueling huge, slow-moving, rain-drenching storms.| Science News
A new study shows how much food polar bears leave behind — and how their decline threatens scavengers across the Arctic.| Science News
The discovery of a new enzyme responsible for creating the tear-inducing chemicals found in onions may herald the arrival of genetically modified tearfree onions.| Science News
DNA and stone tool comparisons suggest Eastern European Neandertals trekked 3,000 kilometers to Siberia, where they left a genetic and cultural mark.| Science News
With a high-speed camera and a tiny guillotine, scientists showed that chopping onions slowly and with sharper knives cuts down on tears.| Science News
These tropical forest CO₂ emissions may warn of similar shifts in other regions, a key topic for COP30 climate talks in Brazil.| Science News
AI promises to speed up scientific analysis and writing. However, AI agents struggled with accuracy and judgment.| Science News
DNA from Napoleonic soldiers’ teeth uncovered two fever-causing bacteria that may have worsened the army’s fatal retreat from Russia.| Science News
Glioblastoma doesn't just affect the brain. It also erodes bones in the skull and changes the composition of immune cells in skull marrow.| Science News
New dating of New Mexico rocks suggest diverse dinosaurs thrived there just before the impact, countering the idea dinos were already on their way out.| Science News
A variety of subway-dwelling mosquito seems like a modern artifact. But genomic analysis reveals the insect got its evolutionary start millennia ago.| Science News
Pricey civet coffee gets its cred from its journey through the mammal’s gut, which changes the content of fat, protein, fatty acids — and even caffeine.| Science News
Vipers have the fastest strikes, but snakes from other families can give some slower vipers stiff competition.| Science News
Google says its quantum computer achieved a verifiable calculation that classic computers cannot. The work could point to future applications.| Science News
Thousands of at-risk manta and devil rays become accidental bycatch in tuna fishing nets every year. A simple sorting grid could help save them.| Science News
Biomedical engineer Erika Moore investigates diseases that disproportionately affect women of color.| Science News
Blazes sparked in wild lands are devastating communities worldwide. The only way to protect them, researchers say, is to re-engineer them.| Science News
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From 2000 to 2019, the boreal forest’s northern boundary didn’t move while southern tree cover thinned due to climate change, wildfires and logging.| Science News
For the first time, a pig organ was successfully attached to a human patient. It’s a step toward vastly increasing the supply of organs.| Science News
The elusive goal of using animal organs for transplants could be within reach, but it’s too soon to tell.| Science News
The genetically modified lung remained viable for nine days, but the recipient’s immune responses need more research, scientists say.| Science News
Instead of nipping milkweed to drain the plants’ defensive sap, older monarch caterpillars may seek the toxic sap. Lab larvae guzzled it from a pipette.| Science News
Climate change is putting monarch butterflies’ overwintering forests in Mexico at risk. Could planting new forests solve that problem?| Science News
In the lab, higher temperatures during fall migration led monarchs to break their reproductive pause, increasing their risk of death.| Science News
The H5N1 outbreak in cattle is giving flashbacks to the COVID pandemic. But this time is different.| Science News
A poorly targeted immune response to the 2009 pandemic flu virus caused young adults and the middle-aged to suffer more than usual.| Science News
Studies suggest that people who had seasonal flus or vaccinations have low antibody levels against H5N1 bird flu.| Science News
As wildfires become more frequent and severe in California, Oregon and throughout the West Coast, concerns rise about harmful air pollution.| Science News
Astronomers now agree: They’ve spotted the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ever seen.| Science News
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s extended stay in the International Space Station will add to what we know about how space affects health.| Science News
As climate change melts West Antarctica’s glaciers, scientists are proposing bold ideas to avoid devastating sea level rise. Will they work?| Science News
Heat waves fueled by climate change killed scores of people and upended daily life. Here are some of those stories.| Science News
Global temperatures were the hottest on record in 2024; it was the first year where the average temperature topped 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times.| Science News
In some parts of California, fire season is now year-round due to rising heat and little rain. High winds and dry conditions are fueling L.A.’s infernos.| Science News
The Parker Solar Probe is about to make a historic voyage to touch the sun.| Science News
The rare find, discovered in the star cluster Omega Centauri, could offer clues to how black holes and galaxies evolve.| Science News
The universe may be a vast quantum computer that safely encodes spacetime in an elaborate web of entanglement.| Science News
