Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next administrator of NASA. The private astronaut and founder of the Shift4 payments processing platform will now be in charge of an agency that faces great…
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Beachy Head Woman's origin story: DNA analysis reveals she was local to southern Britain
The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural History Museum were able to sequence high quality DNA from her skeletal remains.
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Satellite data reveals new insights into sustainable groundwater usage in the Hollywood Basin
Groundwater is a critical resource in Southern California, where long-term drought and climate change place increasing pressure on local aquifers. Some regions, like the Hollywood Basin (a small region in and around the West Hollywood…
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Researchers develop powerful new tool for fracture and fatigue prediction
Researchers have developed a powerful new method to simulate and predict how cracks form and grow in engineering materials under repeated loading.
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Stopping the next pandemic — Harvard Gazette
It began with some intriguing scientific discoveries.
A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called “emerging diseases” such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what…
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Breaking EV Charging Bottleneck With Precision Cooling
Fast, direct-current charging can charge an EV’s battery from about 20 percent to 80 percent in 20 minutes. That’s not bad, but it’s still about six times as long as it takes to fill the tank of an ordinary petrol-powered vehicle.
One of the…
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Rate of US coastal sea level rise doubled in the past century, study finds
A July 2025 report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) claims that U.S. tide gauge measurements “in aggregate show no obvious acceleration in sea level rise beyond the historical average rate.” However, a new study by Chris Piecuch, a…
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When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life
Lab mice are subjected to countless horrors during their short lives, from being injected with cancerous cells to getting exposed to microplastics or ending up dosed with cocaine.
It’s a controversial research standard that has long been…
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A “scientific sandbox” lets researchers explore the evolution of vision systems | MIT News
Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today?
While scientists can’t go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that exist in nature, a new computational…
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Color-superconducting quark matter may explain stability of massive neutron stars
Describing matter under extreme conditions, such as those found inside neutron stars, remains an unsolved problem. The density of such matter is equivalent to compressing around 100,000 Eiffel Towers into a single cubic centimeter. In particular,…
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