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This fossilized vomit is older than the dinosaurs
Vomit is gross—but 290-million-year-old vomit is a scientific marvel

An artist’s rendering of…

February 18, 2026
3 min read
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This fossilized vomit is older than the dinosaurs
Vomit is gross—but 290-million-year-old vomit is a scientific marvel

An artist’s rendering of…

Scientists have created a three-dimensional “heart-on-a-chip” (HOC) that could provide a breakthrough in the fight against the world’s leading cause of death, cardiovascular disease.
One major challenge is that we cannot easily test how a…

On January 30 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to one million satellites to power data centres in space.
The proposal envisions satellites operating between 500…

Scientists in Korea are developing a comfortable light therapy hat that they hope will help with hair loss and growth.
In lab experiments, the invention’s finely tuned system suppressed age-associated changes in human hair cells by nearly 92…

A rare Stone Age cemetery on a Swedish island reveals that some of Europe’s last hunter-gatherers were buried not with their extremely close relations but with more distantly related people, according to a new DNA analysis.
However, some burials…

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IDRs are structurally heterogeneous protein regions that are estimated to constitute approximately 30% of eukaryotic proteomes1. Despite lacking a fixed structure, IDRs have key roles in essential cellular processes such as transcription,…

The TFLN modulator is fabricated on a 360-nm-thick X-cut single-crystalline LN thin film bonded on a 2.5-µm silicon dioxide layer sitting on a quartz substrate (NanoLN)….

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Researchers on the SWAIS2C project camped on the ice — the site is 700 kilometres from the nearest Antarctic station.Credit: Ana Tovey/SWAIS2C
An international team of scientists has returned from the heart of West Antarctica with 228 metres of…