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June 5, 2026

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AI-designed Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Passes First Human Trial

June 5, 2026 Scientists have successfully tested an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine in humans for the first time, finding it to be safe and well tolerated. The vaccine generated immune responses against multiple coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, ...

Octopuses Use Mirrors to Find Food They Cannot See

June 5, 2026 Octopuses may be even smarter than we thought. Researchers at Dartmouth found that octopuses can learn to use mirrors to locate food hidden behind them—a skill previously seen only in vertebrates like mammals and birds. After training, the animals ...

Giant Fire Tornadoes Could Clean Up Oil Spills Faster with Less Pollution

June 5, 2026 Researchers have shown that controlled fire whirls can clean up oil spills faster and more cleanly than traditional burning methods. The spinning flames consumed up to 95% of the oil, cut soot emissions by 40%, and could help prevent spills from ...

Hidden Supermassive Black Hole Pairs May Finally Have a Visible Signal

June 5, 2026 Scientists have proposed a new method for finding tightly bound supermassive black hole pairs by searching for stars that flash repeatedly as their light is magnified by the black holes’ gravity. The timing and brightness of these bursts could ...

Magnetic Fields May Be the Secret Behind Binary Star Formation

June 5, 2026 Scientists have uncovered a surprising force that may help explain how binary star systems form so quickly. New supercomputer simulations show that magnetic fields surrounding newborn stars can act like a cosmic brake, stripping away angular ...

Scientists Discover a Hidden Quantum World Inside Cobalt

June 5, 2026 Scientists have uncovered unexpected quantum complexity inside cobalt, a metal long thought to be fully understood. Advanced measurements revealed a dense network of topological electronic states that remain robust at room temperature. These states ...

Scientists Are Seriously Asking If Bees and ChatGPT Are Conscious

June 5, 2026 New studies suggest consciousness can't be judged solely by behavior, whether it's a chatbot discussing philosophy or a bee searching for nectar. Researchers are increasingly focusing on the internal mechanisms of brains and computers, concluding ...

The Biggest Collagen Study yet Reveals What Actually Works

June 5, 2026 A major review of nearly 8,000 participants found that collagen supplements can improve skin health and ease osteoarthritis symptoms, especially when taken consistently over longer periods. Researchers also found modest benefits for muscle and ...

After 20 Years, Scientists Finally Shrink a Powerful Laser Onto a Chip

June 4, 2026 Researchers at EPFL have developed a chip-scale ultrafast laser that performs on par with traditional tabletop femtosecond lasers. The innovation could make advanced laser technologies far smaller, cheaper, and more accessible for applications ...

Scientists Finally Crack an “Undruggable” Pancreatic Cancer Target and Nearly Double Survival

June 4, 2026 For decades, pancreatic cancer has been one of the most lethal cancers, with few effective treatment options. A new drug, daraxonrasib, targets the KRAS mutation that fuels most pancreatic ...

Goethe Never Knew This 40-million-year-old Ant Was Hidden in His Collection

June 4, 2026 Scientists examining amber from Goethe’s personal collection discovered three hidden fossil insects, including an extinct ant preserved in extraordinary detail. Advanced 3D imaging allowed researchers to see not only the ant’s outer features but ...

Scientists Discover the Master Clock That Controls Biological Growth and Development

June 4, 2026 A newly discovered genetic clock acts as the master timekeeper for development, orchestrating crucial bursts of gene activity throughout a worm’s growth. When the clock is disrupted, development ...

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Beluga Whales Keep Switching Mates and It May Be Saving Their Species

June 4, 2026 Hidden beneath Arctic waters, beluga whales have long kept their family lives a mystery. By analyzing DNA from more than 600 belugas in Alaska’s Bristol Bay over 13 years, researchers uncovered a ...

Cancer’s Favorite Escape Trick May Actually Make It Easier to Kill

June 4, 2026 Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way the immune system fights cancer, overturning a core belief that has guided immunology for decades. The research found that when cancer cells shut down a ...

NASA's Webb Detects Methane and Strange Chemistry on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

June 4, 2026 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered unusual chemistry in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, including the first direct detection of methane on ...

Venus Will Disappear Behind the Moon in a Rare June Sky Event

June 3, 2026 June's night sky delivers several must-see events, starting with a close encounter between Venus and Jupiter after sunset. Mercury joins the pair to form a rare three-planet lineup, while the Moon ...

Scientists Simulated a Nuclear Fireball and Found a Surprise in the Fallout

June 3, 2026 Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout forms. Their experiments revealed that ...

This New Diabetes Pill Burns Fat Without the Downsides of Ozempic

June 3, 2026 Scientists have developed an experimental diabetes and obesity pill that works in a completely different way from drugs like Ozempic. Rather than reducing hunger, it activates metabolism in skeletal ...

Scientists Reverse Anxiety by Fixing a Tiny Brain Circuit

June 3, 2026 A newly identified group of amygdala neurons appears to play a central role in anxiety and social behavior. Restoring normal activity in this tiny brain circuit reversed anxiety and social deficits ...

New Discovery Upends an 80-Year-Old Theory of Turbulence

June 3, 2026 Researchers discovered a way to reverse the direction of energy flow in turbulence, challenging a theory that has stood for more than 80 years. The finding could open new possibilities for ...

A Child's Tooth and Strange Green Stones Uncover a 5,500-Year-Old Mystery

June 3, 2026 An ancient mountain cave in the Pyrenees may have served as one of the earliest high-altitude mining camps ever discovered, with evidence of repeated visits spanning thousands of years. The find ...

Scientists Discovered Something Surprising About French Fries and Diabetes

June 3, 2026 French fries may be the real potato problem. A large study tracking more than 205,000 people for nearly 40 years found that eating three servings of fries per week was linked to a 20% higher risk of ...

Scientists Discover Vast Hidden Structure Beneath Antarctica’s Ice

June 4, 2026 A giant fan-shaped network of hidden basins has been discovered beneath East Antarctica, revealing that several well-known subglacial features are actually part of one massive geological structure. ...

Rising Seas Could Drown Mangroves and Release Vast Stores of Carbon

June 5, 2026 Mangroves are famous for trapping vast amounts of carbon, helping slow climate change. However, a new study suggests rising sea levels could eventually reduce that benefit across entire forests. As ...

Typhoon Jangmi’s Giant Eye Lights Up the Night as It Approaches Japan

June 3, 2026 Typhoon Jangmi powered toward southern Japan with heavy rain, strong winds, and a striking appearance from space. Nighttime satellite images revealed a large eye and intricate swirling structures ...

Super Typhoon Sinlaku Triggered Atmospheric Gravity Waves Visible from Space

June 3, 2026 One of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded this early in the Pacific season did more than unleash flooding and extreme winds—it sent enormous ripples all the way into the upper atmosphere. As ...

A Stellar “Rosetta Stone” Reveals the Source of Mysterious Cosmic Signals

June 2, 2026 Astronomers have finally cracked the mystery behind a strange class of repeating cosmic signals that has baffled scientists for years. Using Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope, researchers traced ...

Your Brain Starts Making Social Decisions Before You Do

June 2, 2026 Researchers found that social behavior begins in the brain before it becomes visible as movement. In zebrafish, a coordinated pattern of activity spread across the brain several seconds before the ...

Why Sweden’s Wolverine Conservation Success Story Is Unraveling

June 1, 2026 A world-famous conservation program that helped save Sweden’s endangered wolverines is now struggling as funding stagnates and local trust erodes. Researchers say the decline offers a cautionary ...

This Strange Crystal Acts Like Metal and Glass at the Same Time

June 1, 2026 A remarkable crystal called molybdenum oxychloride could help make futuristic technologies like smart contact lenses and ultrathin AR glasses a reality. Scientists have created the first detailed ...

This Blood-Feeding Fly Sacrifices Its Sight After Finding a Host

June 2, 2026 Deer keds rely on flight and vision to find a host, but everything changes once they land. After shedding their wings forever, these parasites reduce the activity of key vision-related genes by about ...

Brain Scans Reveal Two Distinct Types of Autism

June 3, 2026 Scientists have uncovered evidence that autism may include at least two biologically distinct subtypes, each marked by a different pattern of brain communication. By combining brain scans from nearly ...

Hubble Captures M88 on a Perilous Journey That Could Change It Forever

June 1, 2026 A stunning spiral galaxy called Messier 88 is racing through the crowded Virgo Cluster on a journey that will dramatically reshape its future. At its heart lies a supermassive black hole about 100 ...

The Ocean's Health May Depend on a Tiny Microbe Inside Fish

May 31, 2026 A surprising new discovery suggests that tiny microbes living inside fish may be helping shape the chemistry of the world’s oceans. Scientists found evidence that bacteria in the guts of marine ...

New 3D Silicon Chip Breakthrough Could Extend Moore’s Law for Years

May 30, 2026 As traditional chip miniaturization slows, researchers have found a way to pack more computing power into the same space by stacking silicon circuits in multiple layers. The new process uses ...

Scientists Confirm a Deep Earthquake That Shouldn't Exist

June 3, 2026 Scientists have confirmed that a mysterious Utah earthquake first detected in 1979 really did occur nearly 90 kilometers underground—far deeper than anyone thought earthquakes could happen beneath ...

NASA’s X-59 Is About to Break the Sound Barrier for the First Time

June 1, 2026 NASA’s futuristic X-59 jet is about to face its biggest challenge yet: breaking the sound barrier for the first time. After a successful series of test flights that pushed the aircraft to ...

NASA’s Roman Telescope Could Reveal 100,000 Hidden Worlds

June 1, 2026 NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far more than all previous missions combined. It will look deep into ...

The Secret to Pigeons’ Incredible Navigation Was Hiding in Their Liver

May 31, 2026 Scientists have uncovered a surprising navigation system in pigeons: iron-filled immune cells in the liver that may act like tiny magnetic sensors. Birds deprived of these cells struggled to find ...

This Strange New Phase of Matter Could Transform Quantum Technology

May 30, 2026 By stacking custom-designed silver nanoparticles like nanoscale LEGO bricks, scientists stabilized a mysterious crystal phase that had never been observed before. The material not only solves a ...

This Newly Discovered Raptor May Have Hunted Like a Giant Heron

May 29, 2026 A newly discovered raptor-like dinosaur from Patagonia is changing how scientists think about ancient predators. Named Kank australis, the 70-million-year-old dinosaur appears to have hunted fish ...

Vitamin B12 and Folate Deficiencies Linked to Chronic Fatigue

May 28, 2026 Feeling constantly drained might not just be about poor sleep or working too hard. Researchers in Japan found that low levels of key vitamins — especially vitamin B12 and folate — may quietly ...