Planets with two suns have long captured the imagination of science fiction fans, thanks largely to Tatooine, the iconic desert world from Star Wars. Given what astronomers know about how stars and planets form, these worlds should be common….
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New metric can help physicians to monitor lung health
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have developed a tool that can identify airway mucus abnormalities in patients with chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or asthma before symptoms start. A study led by Mehmet…
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Cells adapt to aging by actively remodeling endoplasmic reticulum, study reveals
Improvements in public health have allowed humankind to survive to older ages than ever before, but, for many people, these added golden years are not spent in good health. Aging is a natural part of life, but it is associated with a greatly…
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Building energy resilience by understanding nuances of power outages across the US
More frequent and intense weather phenomena like heat waves, windstorms, or atmospheric rivers often come in pairs and these challenging combinations stress the power grid and lead to outages. A multi-year analysis is the first of its kind to…
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Scientists Uncover Thousands Of Mysterious Creatures Lurking Near A Deep-Sea Volcano
A vast aggregation of deep-sea octopuses has been documented nearly two miles beneath the surface off the coast of California, close to an underwater volcano. Observed and analyzed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, this site,…
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NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,185 30 January 2026 (Space Life Science Research Results)
The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a new window.
- Khodadad CLM, Dixit AR, Hummerick ME, Spencer LE, Spern CJ, Torres J, Monje O, Richards JT, Gooden J, Curry AB, Massa GD, DuFour N, Poulet…
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2-month-olds see the world in a more complex way than scientists thought, study suggests
DUBLIN — A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, which is earlier than scientists previously thought.
The findings, published Monday in Nature Neuroscience, may…
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First evidence of deliberate mummification in Inca child sacrifice discovered
Archaeologists have identified the first known case of deliberate mummification of a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual.
The discovery was made by an international research team led by Dagmara Socha of the University of Warsaw….
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Weird bird mouths go all the way back to the first avian dinosaur
The Archaeopteryx is one of evolution’s most infamous species—but it’s…
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European Wildcats Are Slowly Making a Comeback in the Forests of Central Europe
Recently, a team of researchers in the Czech Republic made a surprising but promising discovery — European wildcats (Felis silvestris) were reproducing in the Lusatian Mountains, a range that lies on the border with Germany.
The birth of kittens…
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