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September 8, 2026
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Sep. 8, 2026 Researchers discovered that combinations of toxin-blocking proteins naturally found in rattlesnake blood can powerfully neutralize venom from several dangerous snake species. In lab tests, the mixtures were about 10 times more potent than a current ...
Sep. 8, 2026 More than 1,200 genetic variants have been linked to the Big Five personality traits, and many of the same variants are also associated with health, longevity, careers, income, and everyday habits. The findings reveal a surprisingly wide genetic ...
Sep. 8, 2026 Semaglutide, the drug behind Ozempic and Wegovy, may have benefits that extend well beyond weight loss and diabetes. In a large Swedish study of nearly 15,000 people with bipolar disorder, its use was linked to a 21% lower risk of psychiatric ...
Sep. 8, 2026 Scientists have identified a giant new dinosaur from Brazil that reached about 20 meters long and lived 120 million years ago. Its surprising evolutionary ties to a Spanish dinosaur suggest its ancestors crossed ancient land connections between ...
Sep. 8, 2026 Physicists have directly observed a long-predicted quantum effect of gravity, putting one of Einstein’s foundational ideas to a striking new test. Using ultracold atoms, researchers split an ...
Sep. 8, 2026 The extinct “American cheetah” was not really a cheetah at all, but a puma relative with an unexpectedly flexible lifestyle. Fossils from the Yukon suggest northern populations survived partly by eating fish, possibly including salmon, while ...
Sep. 8, 2026 Starting statins soon after a type 2 diabetes diagnosis may do more than protect the heart. In a nationwide Danish study of more than 132,000 people, those who began statin treatment within a year of diagnosis had a 15% lower relative risk of ...
Sep. 7, 2026 A critically endangered roloway monkey has given birth just months after surgeons performed an unusual operation that saved her foot from amputation. Her new daughter, Lagertha, is an important ...
Sep. 7, 2026 Could math help explain why some relationships survive life’s inevitable stresses while others slowly fall apart? Researchers have spent decades developing mathematical models that treat romantic feelings as changing systems, revealing patterns in ...
Sep. 7, 2026 A rediscovered memoir reveals that celebrated War of 1812 veteran Shadrack Byfield was far more rebellious and troubled than history has portrayed, battling chronic pain, poverty, authorities, and even rivals at his local chapel. The soldier who ...
Sep. 7, 2026 Scientists have found evidence that some gut bacterial populations can spread rapidly between people and across continents, suggesting the microbiome may be more transmissible than previously thought. The research also revealed hidden bacterial ...
Sep. 7, 2026 A more realistic quantum model has revealed evidence that strange, nearly immobile quasiparticles called fractons could exist in solid materials. Their inability to move freely could make them promising building blocks for unusually robust quantum ...
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Sep. 6, 2026 MIT engineers have developed injectable “mini livers” designed to help support people whose failing livers can no longer perform essential jobs. ...
Sep. 6, 2026 East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s long-term decline. ...
Sep. 6, 2026 A large study involving more than 270,000 people has linked higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine to a shorter lifespan in men. Using both observational data and genetic analysis, ...
Sep. 6, 2026 Indonesia’s dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026 fire season as a strengthening El Niño and severe drought dry out wetlands that can burn underground for months. These slow ...
Sep. 6, 2026 Princeton researchers have tested an AI system that can monitor and control fusion plasma in milliseconds, reacting far faster than a human operator. In one experiment, it predicted a damaging ...
Sep. 6, 2026 Researchers may have found a new way to weaken glioblastoma’s defenses against treatment. Blocking a protein called SET prevented tumors from forming in preclinical models, while targeting related ...
Sep. 5, 2026 Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed forms of dark matter. The approach dramatically improved limits on ...
Sep. 5, 2026 Archaeologists have identified tiny 80,000-year-old projectile points in Uzbekistan that may have been used like arrowheads. Their size, design, and impact damage closely resemble weapons found much ...
Sep. 5, 2026 A common frog found across Ecuador and Colombia has finally been recognized as its own species after more than a century of mistaken identity. Museum specimens from the 1800s helped scientists reveal ...
Sep. 5, 2026 Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four letters used by all known life on Earth. Detailed ...
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Sep. 4, 2026 UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, stem cells responsible for producing much of the cerebral cortex, change ...
Sep. 3, 2026 A huge 10-sided atmospheric pattern has appeared around Saturn’s south pole, giving the planet a surprising counterpart to its famous northern hexagon. Hubble data suggest the strange decagon only ...
Sep. 5, 2026 Scientists in Japan have identified a natural compound found in blueberries, grapes, and other berries that may help muscle cells burn excess fat instead of storing it. The compound, pterostilbene, ...
Sep. 3, 2026 Scientists have discovered a strange black “devil flower” in Thailand that lives mostly underground, steals nutrients from fungi, and looks strikingly unlike a typical plant. The newly named ...
Sep. 4, 2026 Puerto Rico’s normally rainy season has instead brought a severe and fast-growing drought. By August 25, three-quarters of the territory was in at least moderate drought, with extreme drought ...
Sep. 4, 2026 A giant iceberg measuring more than 76 square kilometers broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier in August 2026, marking the Arctic’s largest glacier calving event since 2020. The berg later ...
Sep. 4, 2026 The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise and appeared where dark matter might be expected. Scientists ...
Sep. 3, 2026 September’s sky features brilliant Venus, the Milky Way’s hazy center, and the seasonal turning point of the equinox. The month ends with a glowing Harvest Moon rising near Saturn and faint ...
Sep. 3, 2026 Star formation across the universe has fallen dramatically over the past 4.5 billion years, but astronomers have uncovered a surprising twist: the supply of neutral hydrogen, a key ingredient for ...
Sep. 2, 2026 “Broken heart syndrome” can mimic a heart attack so closely that patients often need invasive testing to tell the difference. Researchers have now developed the BioTAK score, which combines ...
Sep. 1, 2026 Snake embryos begin life curled into a distinctive right-handed spiral, and scientists may finally know why. Their bodies grow faster than their guts, creating a tether that forces the lengthening ...
Aug. 31, 2026 NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has launched on a million mile journey to L2, where it will scan huge portions of the cosmos for clues about dark matter, dark energy, and distant worlds. With survey ...
Sep. 1, 2026 NASA and SpaceX have delayed Crew-13 after finding an oxidizer leak in the Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system during prelaunch preparations. Engineers are investigating the problem before the ...
Sep. 5, 2026 Heart disease and chronic kidney disease can accelerate one another, but new guidelines say simple screening and early treatment could substantially reduce the risks. Blood and urine tests, combined ...
Sep. 1, 2026 NASA has brought two of Swift’s telescopes back online after technical problems derailed a commercial mission intended to rescue the aging observatory by raising its orbit. With atmospheric drag ...
Sep. 3, 2026 Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered an unexpected form of the Hall effect, overturning the long-held assumption that this electrical response only appears when a magnetic field ...
Sep. 1, 2026 Rare storms covered huge stretches of Chile’s Atacama Desert in snow and dumped extraordinary amounts of rain on one of the driest regions on Earth. The extreme weather shut down observatories, ...
Aug. 29, 2026 CAR T-cell therapy dramatically reduced disease activity in six people with severe rheumatoid arthritis that had resisted other treatments, with three achieving medication-free remission. The ...
Aug. 29, 2026 A ketogenic diet outperformed Mediterranean and low-fat diets in several measures of metabolic health during a clinical trial involving people with obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver disease. All ...
Aug. 30, 2026 Mars has a hidden temperature divide, with its southern interior potentially hundreds of degrees hotter than the north and partially molten. The discovery could help explain several long-standing ...
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- Extreme Drought Now Covers 44% of Puerto Rico
- Giant Greenland Iceberg Slams Into Joe Island and Survives
- Dark Matter Detector Finds a Strange Signal Scientists Can’t Yet Explain
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- September Brings a Dazzling Venus and a Glowing Harvest Moon
- The Universe Has Plenty of Hydrogen. So Why Is Star Formation Collapsing?
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- A Cancer Therapy Put Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis Into Remission
- Keto Diet Cut Liver Fat by 67% in a Clinical Trial
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- NASA’s Roman Telescope Will See 100 Times More Sky Than Hubble
- Why Scientists Asked 1,000 People to Bury Their Underwear
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- Scientists Find a Huge Hidden Ice Reservoir Beneath Utah’s Mountains
- 324-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How Insects Conquered Land
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- NASA Is About to Launch a Powerful New Eye on the Universe
- Trump to Award Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II Astronauts
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- Physicists Create a Tiny “Big Bang” With Surprisingly Small Atomic Nuclei
- Black Holes Keep Tearing These Stars Apart, but They Survive
Friday, August 21, 2026
- AI May Know How You’ll Respond to a Vaccine Before You Get It
- A Simple at-Home Test Could Cut Colorectal Cancer Death Risk by 43%
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- New Mexico’s Largest Reservoir Plunges to Just 1.4% Full
- Alzheimer’s May Leave a Mark on the Brain Long Before Plaques Appear
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- NASA Finds Earth Microbes Could Survive on the Moon
- People Who Live Past 110 Have an Unusual Abundance of Killer Immune Cells
Sunday, August 23, 2026
- Gut Bacteria May Unlock a Hidden Benefit of Vegetables
- This Common Vitamin Was Linked to 13% Better Cognitive Scores
Friday, September 4, 2026
- MIT Turns Bacteria Into Living Transistors
- Dying Radio Galaxies Fade Faster Than Scientists Expected
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- What You Eat Before Age 2 May Affect Your Health 70 Years Later
- One Asteroid Strike May Explain Two Mysteries of Mars’ Moon Deimos
- A Missing Color in Indoor Light May Help Prevent Myopia
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- A Lost Mega-Cliff May Explain the Grand Canyon’s Missing Billion Years
- A SpaceX Rocket Smashed Into the Moon — NASA Just Revealed the Crater
- Scientists Say the Human Family Tree May Need a Major Rewrite
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- Hidden Magnetism Inside Atoms May Explain Mysterious Gamma Rays
- A Strange New Quantum Droplet Can Hold Itself Together
Thursday, August 20, 2026
- This Total Solar Eclipse Looked Strangely Golden — Here’s Why
- Knee Osteoarthritis Isn’t Inevitable — Here’s What You Can Do
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- Researchers Reveal Deeper Workings of Brain’s Information Hub
- Tiny Quantum Engines Reveal Useful Energy Hiding in “waste Heat”
- A Mother’s Age Can Shape Her Offspring Without Changing Their DNA
- This 23-Foot Crocodylian May Have Ruled South America’s Food Chain
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- A 236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Could Rewrite the Story of Mammalian Birth
- A Surprising Brain Discovery Could Help Explain Why We Overeat Fatty Foods
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- Taking the Stairs Could Protect Your Heart and Help You Live Longer
- Women Taking Estrogen Had Fewer Signs of Alzheimer’s in Their Brains