• Book Review: The Mixed Blessing of Antibiotics
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from Undark
    “Dangerous Miracle,” by biologist Liam Shaw, is a deep investigation into the rise, heyday, and precarious future of antibiotics, a life-saving treatment heralded as a wonder cure for infectious bacterial diseases but...
  • Eye injuries have skyrocketed after pickleball craze, study finds
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Eye protection is currently not mandated for sport
  • California at risk? The “Really Big One” could strike and cause massive damage, scientists warn
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    A massive Pacific Northwest earthquake could trigger a devastating second quake on California's San Andreas Fault, a new study reveals. This challenges previous beliefs of fault independence, suggesting a dangerous domino effect. Such...
  • Rogue black hole shocks astronomers with record radio blast
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
    For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest-changing radio signals ever recorded. The event, AT 2024tvd, revealed delayed bursts of energy months after the...
  • Scientists add bacteria to a waste gas reactor – what happened next is nearly impossible
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Norwegian scientists have engineered a process using specialized bacteria to convert industrial waste gases, carbon dioxide and hydrogen, into nearly pure methane. This biologically produced fuel, exceeding 96% purity, can be used in...
  • Solution to CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Is Found in Smithsonian Vault
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the key.
  • Mpox strain that may be more severe and easily spread is found in L.A. County for first time
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    It's the first time this particular type of mpox, known as "Clade I," has been found in the United States among people who had no history of traveling overseas to high-risk areas.
  • Russian cosmonauts install semiconductor experiment, jettison old HDTV camera during spacewalk outside ISS
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from SPACE.com
    Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky worked outside the International Space Station on Tuesday (Oct. 16), conducting a spacewalk to install, retrieve and jettison equipment.
  • Paleontologists Discover New Species of Triassic Long-Necked Dinosaur
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com
    Paleontologists have unearthed a new assemblage of Triassic fossils at the Quebrada Santo Domingo site of the Northern Precordillera Basin in northwestern Argentina. The post Paleontologists Discover New Species of Triassic Long-Necked...
  • Conditions right Thursday night for Northern Lights in 15 states
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    The Aurora Borealis, typically only seen in the farthest northern reaches in the coldest winter months, could be visible in 15 U.S. states Thursday night, scientists reported.
  • Jeffrey Meldrum, Scholar Who Stalked Bigfoot, Dies at 67
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    His willingness to bring scientific rigor to Sasquatch studies earned him the gratitude of enthusiasts and the withering scorn of debunkers.
  • Manta Rays Dive Almost 4,000 Feet into the Deep Ocean — Not for Food, But for Directions
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    Learn how tracking data shows that manta rays plunge more than 4,000 feet down in the deep sea not to hunt, but to find their bearings and travel across the open ocean. 
  • Humans in Europe Might’ve Taken Toolmaking Inspiration From Neanderthals
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    Learn more about the differences between Lebanese and Italian tools, which contradict the theory that modern human migrations spread a single stone tool culture from the Near East to Europe.
  • Brain Cells on a Computer Chip Offer Advanced Medical Treatments and Use Less Energy
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    Learn more about the new biological computer that fuses brain cells and computer chips — and uses far less energy.
  • Ancient Human Brains Adapted From Exposure to Lead Poisoning, Providing an Evolutionary Advantage
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    Learn how lead exposure impacted ancient humans' health and brain activity up to 2 million years ago.
  • Are You Calm When Scared, or Do You Panic and Flee? A Brain Circuit Explains Why
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    A little-known brain region helps us decide when to panic and relax, reshaping our understanding of how fear works.
  • Surprising bacteria discovery links Hawaiʻi's groundwater to the ocean
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    A new species of bacteria has been discovered off the coast of Oʻahu, shedding light on how unseen microbial life connects Hawaiʻi's land and sea ecosystems.
  • Bats' brains reveal a global neural compass that doesn't depend on the moon and stars
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited piece of land about the size of seven soccer fields. It was on this unlikely patch of ground that Weizmann...
  • Overheating bat boxes place bats in mortal danger during heat waves
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Staying cool during heat waves is challenging for small creatures, but the problem could be even more extreme for nocturnal creatures that are unable to move to cooler locations while slumbering.
  • Comet Lemmon's ghostly tail haunts the skies above England (photo)
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from SPACE.com
    Photographer Josh Dury has captured a gorgeous view of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) brightening the skies above the UK as it nears planet Earth.
  • Hidden for centuries: Archaeologists unearth ancient Roman water basin
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    In the heart of the ancient Roman city of Gabii, located just 11 miles east of Rome, a team of archaeologists led by University of Missouri professor Marcello Mogetta has made a remarkable discovery: the remains of a massive stone-lined...
  • Learning the language of lasso peptides to improve peptide engineering
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    In the hunt for new therapeutics for cancer and infectious diseases, lasso peptides prove to be a catch. Their knot-like structures afford these molecules high stability and diverse biological activities, making them a promising avenue...
  • The centre of our galaxy may be teeming with dark matter particles
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecosystems
    A mysterious excess of gamma rays in the middle of the Milky Way may come from dark matter particles smashing into one another and annihilating
  • Old-school material could power quantum computing and cut data center energy use
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    A new twist on a classic material could advance quantum computing and make modern data centers more energy efficient, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State.
  • Quantum radio antenna uses Rydberg states for sensitive, all-optical signal detection
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Center for Quantum Optical Technologies at the University of Warsaw has developed a new type of all-optical radio receiver based on the fundamental properties of Rydberg atoms. The new type of...
  • New family of fluorescent molecules glows in water, enhancing visualization of cells
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    A team of researchers at the Departments of Physical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry of the University of Malaga and The Biomimetic Dendrimers and Photonic Laboratory of the research institute IBIMA Plataforma BIONAND has achieved a...
  • Watch SpaceX's Super Heavy Starship booster hover in mid-air before plunging into the sea (video)
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from SPACE.com
    SpaceX video from Starship's Oct. 13 launch shows the rocket's Super Heavy booster hovering over the gulf before its dive into the deep.
  • Decoding dangers of Arctic sea ice with radar, seismic methods and fiber-optic sensing
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Sea ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean is at one of its lowest levels on record, yet there's no unanimity on when that ice will disappear completely during summer months.
  • Why Classic Maya cities rose and fell
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Why move to a city? And why leave? Urban centers today see populations ebb and flow for a multitude of reasons—the economy, crowds, lifestyle considerations, air quality, the odd pandemic perhaps. As it turns out, it's sort of always...
  • Coral skeletons left by a medieval tsunami whisper a warning for Caribbean region
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Sometime between 1381 and 1391, an earthquake exceeding magnitude 8.0 rocked the northeastern Caribbean and sent a tsunami barreling toward the island of Anegada.
  • Attaching 'fake targets' to tumor cells enables antigen-independent immunotherapy
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    A research team has introduced a novel cancer immunotherapy strategy. This approach involves attaching "fake targets" to tumor cells to guide immune cell attacks, overcoming the limitations of conventional antibody-based therapies. The...
  • Triplets born from proton collisions found to be correlated with each other
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    For the first time, by studying quantum correlations between triplets of secondary particles created during high-energy collisions in the LHC accelerator, it has been possible to observe their coherent production. This achievement...
  • Homo Ergaster: The Early Human Who Looked Almost Like Us
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    Learn more about Homo ergaster , an early human ancestor with pivotal features.
  • Analysis details the where, and who, of increased hurricane power outages in the future
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Georgia and northern Florida are likely to be hardest hit by increasing hurricane-induced power outages along the Atlantic coast in the future, with Hispanic, non-white and low-income populations most affected, according to new research...
  • Post-Fire Debris Flow Risk Rising in a Changing Climate
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Research in the U.S. Southwest could expand lifesaving efforts for hazards that follow wildfires across the globe.
  • Mitochondria play an unexpected role in regulating cell death, study reveals
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    A new study from The University of Texas at Arlington has revealed how cells control their mitochondria—the "energy producers" of cells—during the process of cell death. The discovery sheds light on how the body manages this essential...
  • Eye Injuries Are Rising Among Pickleball Players
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Older players of pickleball, the fastest-growing sport in the United States, are more vulnerable to eye injuries, some of which could lead to vision loss, researchers reported.
  • Brazil to ask countries at Cop30 to vastly increase biofuel use, leak suggests
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecosystems
    Exclusive: Document sets draft pledge for leaders gathering at climate summit to increase use of controversial fuels Brazil will ask countries to quadruple the global use of “sustainable fuels”, including controversial biofuels, despite...
  • Large fluctuations in sea level throughout the last ice age challenge understanding of past climate
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period, a study published in the journal Science has found.
  • Global research shows how Dust Bowl-type drought causes unprecedented productivity loss
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    A global research effort led by Colorado State University shows that extreme, prolonged drought conditions in grasslands and shrublands would greatly limit the long-term health of crucial ecosystems that cover nearly half the planet. The...
  • Stinkbug's 'ears on legs' are really symbiotic organs that nurture fungi for guarding eggs against enemies, study finds
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Like humans, insects possess sensory organs responsible for vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. For vision, insects primarily rely on compound eyes. But what about hearing? For example, crickets develop tympanal organs on their...
  • Dry ice may burrow through Mars like sandworms in 'Dune'
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from SPACE.com
    Blocks of carbon dioxide ice appear to carve mysterious gullies on Mars as they melt down dune slopes and blast away sand.
  • Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    The president’s call for removal of the metal from childhood inoculations set off alarms. About half of shots for polio, whooping cough and other diseases would be affected.
  • Scientist's Theory Explains Why We Haven't Met Aliens
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    The Fermi paradox raises a key question: Given the likelihood of intelligent extraterrestrial life, why is there still no compelling evidence of it? A new theory, described in a paper not yet peer-reviewed, provides a potential answer...
  • What vibrating molecules might reveal about cell biology
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Infrared vibrational spectroscopy at BESSY II can be used to create high-resolution maps of molecules inside live cells and cell organelles in their native aqueous environment, according to a new study by a team from HZB and Humboldt...
  • Streamlined method to directly generate photons in optical fiber could secure future quantum internet
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    With the rise of quantum computers, the security of our existing communication systems is at risk. Quantum computers will be able to break many of the encryption methods used in current communication systems. To counter this, scientists...
  • New measurement method visualizes chemical signals of individual cells
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Diagnosing cancer and selecting the appropriate therapy depend crucially on how well experts understand the processes in tumors at the microscopic level. Central to this is understanding how cells in tissues communicate and what chemical...
  • Researchers debunk new sex selection method
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    In 2019, a group of researchers in Japan published a study that promised the potential to revolutionize sex selection for scientists, farmers, and potentially even human fertility treatments.
  • Insane Micro AI Just Shocked The World: CRUSHED Gemini and DeepSeek (Pure Genius)
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Tweets: ThinkTanks, Geopolitics, Security
    Insane Micro AI Just Shocked The World: CRUSHED Gemini and DeepSeek (Pure Genius) Samsung just shocked the entire AI world[...] The post Insane Micro AI Just Shocked The World: CRUSHED Gemini and DeepSeek (Pure Genius) first appeared on...
  • How a pit-shaping module sustains xylem hydraulics and rice grain yield
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Xylem vessel pits are tiny openings on the cell wall of water-conducting cells—with pit geometry influencing crop yield through its effect on plant hydraulics and nitrogen transport.
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