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Cygnus X-1, a black hole 7,200 light-years away, was a mystery. Now, a global radio telescope network has clocked its powerful jets, revealing they blast material at 150,000 km/s.
Yaks and Tibetan antelopes hold a secret to nerve repair. A genetic mutation helping them thrive in low oxygen also protects and repairs the myelin sheath, vital for human nerve function.
Hard to spot from the ground, a massive circular geologic feature in northwestern Africa becomes obvious from space. See NASA's Earth Observatory image of the day for April 16, 2026.
Irish Goats roam today, but their lineage stretches back to the Bronze Age. Ancient DNA confirms these modern herds are direct descendants, highlighting their historical value and urgent conservation needs.
A 26-year-old alpha chimpanzee, Ayumu, is spontaneously drumming and vocalizing. Researchers at Kyoto University's EHUB report he tears floorboards to fashion instruments for his extended performances.
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Scientists just unlocked a new way to control superconductivity! By tweaking a material's environment, they can now influence this incredible phenomenon.
Psychoactive compounds blur the line between thought and perception. A new study reveals four such compounds operate similarly, dissolving the internal-external divide.
A mangled dinosaur skull, forgotten in a drawer, is actually a new species! Reconstructed by a VT student, this early carnivore has never-before-seen features, hinting at ancient extinctions.
Ants' colony security is surprisingly flexible. A new study reveals they update nestmate recognition throughout adulthood, balancing learned cues with intrinsic kin recognition.
Young stars are chilling faster, ferrets got evicted from an island, and flies are surprisingly good pollinators. This week, the universe delivered some delightful curveballs.
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Scientists just unveiled the properties of 1D anyons! Discover how these exotic particles can be observed with current experimental setups.
Want to achieve more? Sharper thinking isn't just a feeling. Researchers found it makes you set bigger goals and follow through, boosting productivity by up to 40 minutes daily.
T. rex to ancient plants: Late Cretaceous rocks from the Hell Creek Formation yield countless paleontological breakthroughs.
Our Sun's young stellar cousins are dimming faster than expected! NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals they're calming down quickly, a new study in The Astrophysical Journal reports.
A 550-million-year-old fossilized sponge just solved a major evolutionary mystery. This soft-bodied find explains why early sponge fossils are so rare, illuminating their "missing years.
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Artemis II united America. High favorability for NASA and space exploration proves lunar missions captivate a nation often divided, sparking shared excitement across political lines.
Dark matter's elusive nature just got a new twist. A study suggests its absence in some galaxies doesn't contradict evidence found in our own, challenging previous assumptions.
NVIDIA just unveiled new open AI models, Ising, to tackle quantum computing's biggest hurdles: calibration and error correction. These models promise more stable, scalable quantum systems.
Forget ancient Egypt! Native Americans were rolling dice for games over 12,000 years ago, long before Old World Bronze Age societies, a CSU study reveals.
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A subtle periodic table shift unveils a complex, unexplored layer of biology. This discovery promises to reshape our understanding of life's fundamental processes.
Hawaiians hunted native waterbirds to extinction? A new UH Mānoa study overturns this decades-old belief, finding no evidence and proposing climate change and invasive species as culprits.
Andes Mountains' formation just got a new timeline. A major tectonic collision, long assumed to be recent, actually occurred much earlier, according to a new geological study.
From quantum computing to Himalayan forest restoration, discover how unseen forces and human patience are driving today's most profound progress.
Gallium just shattered decades of scientific assumptions. Its liquid structure is far more complex than we ever imagined, revealing unexpected behavior that challenges established physics.
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Ketchup or quicksand: non-Newtonian fluids defy easy explanation. Their flow changes with force, but the mechanics—especially rapid deformation—remain a mystery scientists are still unraveling.
Tired of gritty protein shakes? New research reveals how subtle whey protein processing changes could revolutionize the taste and texture of your favorite drinks.
A hydrologist snowshoeing through Washington's snowy Cascades isn't unusual. But the long, serrated aluminum tube he carried? That's where the story begins.
Europe's quantum computing companies are rapidly advancing. Could the continent lead the global quantum tech race?
Hummingbirds and sunbirds both drink nectar, but sunbirds use a unique tongue-suctioning technique—a first among vertebrates.
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Forget topsoil! New research is unearthing thousands-year-old deep soils, revealing secrets about carbon storage, nutrients, and microbes. The Deep Soil Ecotron is pioneering this vital exploration.
Artemis II astronauts barely landed before worms launched into space! These tiny travelers blasted off April 11 from Cape Canaveral, headed to the ISS aboard NASA's CRS-24 mission.
A bizarre, bipedal crocodile relative is rewriting the rules of Triassic evolution. This "peculiar" reptile challenges assumptions about ancient croc movement and ecosystem diversity.
A 300-million-year-old mummified reptile reveals the earliest evidence of a land vertebrate using rib muscles to breathe—just like modern mammals, reptiles, and birds.
This tiny fossil snake is a giant clue. It's rewriting snake evolution, behavior, and revealing an ancient ecosystem unlike anything we know today.
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A long-overlooked fossil just rewrote pterosaur evolution. A chance discovery inside revealed an unexpected chapter, changing what we know about these ancient flyers.
Quantum mechanics, once baffling, now drives modern tech and frontier research.
Light trapped on a chip for millions of cycles? Researchers achieved it, overcoming a major hurdle in photonics. This breakthrough allows shaping delicate atomically thin materials for high-performance optics.
Jupiter and Saturn: gas giants, yes, but their moon systems tell vastly different tales. Magnetic forces and planetary evolution sculpted these worlds in unique ways.
Curiosity's mission updates, science overview, and exploration goals are all here. Dive into raw images, videos, and audio from Mars, plus details on other Mars missions.