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Science News
Science News
- Why the FDA banned the common food dye Red No. 3
- Lethal snake venom may be countered by new AI-designed proteins
- Iron Age Celtic women’s social and political power just got a boost
- Toxin-gobbling bacteria may live on poison dart frog skin
- Hand-feeding squirrels accidentally changed their skulls
- Obesity needs a new definition beyond BMI, health experts argue
- A podcast challenges us to reassess our relationship with wildfires
- Got a cold? A placebo might help
- How we might finally find black holes from the cosmic dawn
- U.S. dementia cases may rise to 1 million per year by 2060
Science News Explores! (formerly Science News for Students)
- Plant and fungi parts help robots level up
- U.S. teen tobacco use has hit a record low
- Explainer: What is the internet?
- Scientists Say: Aphantasia
- Ouch! The pain of pulled hair registers superfast
- Why is Los Angeles on fire?
- The biggest discoveries of Voyagers — NASA’s most distant explorers
- Analyze This: Skipping through videos may increase boredom
- Is synthetic food dye bad for kids? Here’s what the science says
- This teen materials scientist wants to save the Great Salt Lake
BBC News
Science & Environment
- Women held keys to land and wealth in Celtic Britain
- 'We sing to them': LA stables turn Noah's Ark for fire rescue animals
- Fatbergs turned into perfume - inside Britain's bizarre new industrial revolution
- Norway on track to be first to go all-electric
- 2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit
- New images of Mercury captured by UK spacecraft
- Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery
- Bumblebees winter nest-building 'due to climate'
- Saving a species: The slow return of the Iberian lynx
- 'Humans are all they know' - Fate of whales uncertain as marine zoo shuts
Technology
- What happens if TikTok is banned?
- US markets watchdog sues Musk over Twitter stake disclosure
- Google faces UK investigation over search dominance
- TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms
- TikTok says report of possible sale to Musk 'pure fiction'
- GPs turn to AI to help with patient workload
- PM plans to 'unleash AI' across UK to boost growth
- Apple pushes back on call to end diversity programme
- Online safety laws unsatisfactory, minister says
- Meta and Amazon scale back diversity initiatives
NASA
Breaking News
- NASA Solar Observatory Sees Coronal Loops Flicker Before Big Flares
- Langley’s Propeller Research Tunnel
- NASA Seeks Proposals for Space Biology and Physical Sciences Research
- How It Started, How It’s Going: Johnson Space Center Edition
- 50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight
- NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe
- Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight
- Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Poster
- Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster
- NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas
Image of the Day
- Langley’s Propeller Research Tunnel
- Best of 2024: Dinosaur Prepared to Safely Watch Solar Eclipse
- Earth in Far-Ultraviolet
- Los Angeles Fires Seen from International Space Station
- Laboratory Director Tawnya Plummer Laughinghouse
- Best of 2024: Reestablished NASA Art Program Begins with Mural in New York City
- Defying Gravity
- Media Day with Artemis II Crews
- Best of 2024: Total Solar Eclipse in Indianapolis
- Red and Green Aurora Move Through Earth’s Atmosphere
NASA
- NASA Solar Observatory Sees Coronal Loops Flicker Before Big Flares
- Langley’s Propeller Research Tunnel
- NASA Seeks Proposals for Space Biology and Physical Sciences Research
- How It Started, How It’s Going: Johnson Space Center Edition
- 50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight
- NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe
- Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight
- Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Poster
- Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster
- NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas
NASA
- NASA Solar Observatory Sees Coronal Loops Flicker Before Big Flares
- Langley’s Propeller Research Tunnel
- NASA Seeks Proposals for Space Biology and Physical Sciences Research
- How It Started, How It’s Going: Johnson Space Center Edition
- 50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight
- NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe
- Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight
- Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Poster
- Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster
- NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas
The Guardian (UK)
Science
- SpaceX launches two lunar landers to the moon
- Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests
- As an agony aunt, I know the biggest cause of unhappiness: other people. Here’s the secret to better relationships
- Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool
- ‘We’re very fortunate’: stargazers to see almost all planets in the night sky at the same time
- Age of the panzootic: scientists warn of more devastating diseases jumping between species
- Scientists find hundreds more genetic risk factors for depression
- How weather ‘whiplash’ set the stage for the LA fires – podcast
- Are ultra-processed foods changing the shape of our jaws?
- Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin calls off debut rocket launch minutes before blastoff
Climate Crisis
- California fires live: 6m people under critical fire threat as dangerous winds expected
- What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars? | Judith Levine
- ‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild
- California pulls diesel phase-out request to EPA ahead of Trump administration
- Climate ‘whiplash’ events increasing exponentially around world
- Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool
- Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’ | Adrienne Buller
- I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real
- Escalating armed conflict is most urgent threat for world in 2025, say global leaders
- Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group
Environment
- What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars? | Judith Levine
- ‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild
- ‘Running to danger and saving lives’: 1,100 incarcerated firefighters are on the LA frontlines
- ‘What joy! What damn joy!’: vanilla boom transforms fortunes of Colombia’s farmers
- ‘I applaud the EPA’: agency launches formal review of five toxic chemicals
- 3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show
- Scouts embrace rewilding to connect UK teenagers with nature
- Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’ | Adrienne Buller
- I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real
- Big oil pushed to kill bill that would have made them pay for wildfire disasters
NYTimes
Science
- Ramaswamy Has a High-Profile Perch and a Raft of Potential Conflicts
- FDA Bans Red Dye 3 in Foods, Linking It to Cancer in Rats
- Energy Secretary Pick, Chris Wright, Has Been an Evangelist for Fossil Fuels
- Blue Origin Scrubs New Glenn Rocket’s Debut Launch
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Director Julie Packard to Retire
- Are Biden and Trump at Odds on Global Energy Strategy? Maybe Not So Much.
- World Monuments Fund Puts Moon on List of At-Risk Sites
- SpaceX Will Launch Two New Moon Landers on One Rocket: What to Know
- Celtic Women Held Sway in ‘Matrilocal’ Societies
- FDA Moves Forward With Last-Minute Push to Cut Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes
Space & Cosmos
- Blue Origin Scrubs New Glenn Rocket’s Debut Launch
- World Monuments Fund Puts Moon on List of At-Risk Sites
- SpaceX Will Launch Two New Moon Landers on One Rocket: What to Know
- Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System
- After a Naming Contest, Cardea Joins the Celestial Ranks as a Quasi-Moon
- A Stargazers’ Guide to Watching the Full Moon Pass Mars and the a New Come
- Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket Launch Could Give SpaceX Some Competition
- How the Northern Lights and Digital Photography Have Boosted Astrotourism
- Firefighters Protect Mt. Wilson Observatory From Eaton Fire in L.A.
- Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon Charon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss
Health
- Ramaswamy Has a High-Profile Perch and a Raft of Potential Conflicts
- FDA Bans Red Dye 3 in Foods, Linking It to Cancer in Rats
- Kate Middleton Is in Cancer Remission. It Doesn’t Always Mean the Illness Is Cured.
- How a Company Makes Millions Off a Hospital Program Meant to Help the Poor
- FDA Moves Forward With Last-Minute Push to Cut Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes
- New Obesity Definition Challenges Current Use of B.M.I.
- Moderate Drinking Raises Health Risks While Offering Few Benefits
- Online Therapy Boom Has Mainly Benefited Privileged Groups, Studies Find
- Estimated Gaza Toll May Have Missed 25,000 Deaths, Study Says
- F.D.A. Proposes New Food Labels to Detail Sugar, Fat and Salt Content
Climate & Environment
- California Wildfire Victims Can Apply for a One-Time $770 FEMA Payment
- Energy Secretary Pick, Chris Wright, Has Been an Evangelist for Fossil Fuels
- Biden’s Presidential Legacy: An Era of Change, Forever Marked by Trump
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Director Julie Packard to Retire
- Are Biden and Trump at Odds on Global Energy Strategy? Maybe Not So Much.
- Economic Toll of Los Angeles Fires Goes Far Beyond Destroyed Homes
- The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change
- California Wildfires Threaten Insurers Already Teetering From Climate Shocks
- Biden Designates Two New National Monuments in California
- California Withdraws Some Requests for Tighter Climate Rules
And even...
Wired – Science
- Los Angeles Needs to Fireproof Communities, Not Just Houses
- You Have NASA to Thank for Wireless Headphones and Vacuum Cleaners
- GPS Is Vulnerable to Attack. Magnetic Navigation Can Help
- The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Created Another Problem—Unsafe Drinking Water
- The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell
- New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered
- A Glowing Metal Ring Crashed to Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From
- These Maps Show Just How Dry Southern California Is Right Now
- Los Angeles Will Remain at High Risk of Fire Into Next Week
- The Brightest Comet of 2025 Is Coming. Here’s How You Can See It Shine
Discover Magazine
- Million-Year-Old Snow Leopard Bones Help Explain Their Rule During the Ice Age
- This Iron Age Society Had a Strong Female-Line Descent — A First for Early Europe
- Echoes Near Stone Age Rock Art Suggest Rituals Were Common Practice
- Neanderthal Interbreeding Likely Gave Human Immunity a Boost
- Researchers Make Computer Models To Tackle Antibiotic Resistance
- Chornobyl Dogs Have Genetic Differences but Not From Disaster Mutations
- Rats Facing Lego Robot Scorpions May Help Understand Human Anxiety
- Seven Planets Will Soon Align, Creating a Planet Parade in the Sky
- Looking Back at the Scopes Monkey Trial Nearly 100 Years Later
- Do Dogs Have Long-Term Memory?
...more...
Space.com
- Space Mountain at 50: Five nods to NASA from the Walt Disney World ride
- Battlestar Galactica at 20: the show that reinvented space opera
- The 7 best total solar eclipses of the next 10 years
- Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)
- James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'
- Uncanny 'Alien: Romulus' Ian Holm CGI fixed for home release as director 'wasn't 100 percent happy'
- Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
- Saturn disappears behind the moon in stunning telescope photo
- Telescope vs monocular: Which should I buy?
- 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' finale leaves us asking 'what's next'?
Phys.org
- Invasive pike use marine corridors to colonize new Alaska territory
- The first supernovae flooded the early universe with water, research suggests
- Earth's temporary moon might have come from the moon
- The power of touch in the animal world: Research highlights its role in the persistence of friendships and cooperation
- How far can government authorities go in tackling radicalization among young people?
- Continuous cryogenic pellet injection system developed for tokamak fueling
- Mapping accessibility to transform cities
- Researchers propose a novel method to shed light on PFOS-induced neurotoxicity
- Migration memory: How caribou adapt to changing winter conditions
- Rice breeders explore gene editing to enhance nighttime heat tolerance
...science news
New Scientist
- Zero-carbon shipping fuel could be a new source of pollution
- Celtic tribe's DNA points to female empowerment in pre-Roman Britain
- Red Note and Lemon8 are not the TikTok refuges you are looking for
- Golden oyster mushrooms may stave off signs of ageing
- Astronomers baffled by bizarre 'zombie star' that shouldn't exist
- A new definition of obesity could help treat millions of people
- US has imported billions of wild animals in the past 20 years
- AI could assemble a record-breaking quantum computer out of cold atoms
- SpaceX is launching Blue Ghost and Resilience landers to the moon
- Giant isopod named after Darth Vader is a delicacy in Vietnam
Popular Science
- New DJI drone policy could fuel even more conspiracy theories
- The best tankless water heaters, as chosen by experts
- The best power lift recliners for mobility and comfort
- The best solar generators for emergencies, camping, homes, and more
- FDA bans Red No. 3 dye found in many of your favorite snacks
- Do animals experience mental illness?
- You can now play ‘Tetris’ in a PDF file
- British Iron Age burial grounds reveal women had power
- Scientists use AI to create completely new anti-venom proteins
- It looks like a credit card, but it’ll help you never lose your wallet again
Scientific American
- Does Fact-Checking Work on Social Media?
- Migrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other Species
- How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S.
- Visas for Guest Workers Can Spur High Technology and U.S. Jobs
- Government and Industry Response to Bird Flu Could Allow Disease to Evolve
- Blue Ghost, Third Private U.S. Lunar Lander, Launches to the Moon
- 50,000 Scientists Urge Congress to Protect Research from Trump
- Venn Diagrams' History and Popularity Outside of Math Explained
- Why Are Recurring Dreams Usually Nightmares?
- After Los Angeles Fires, Drinking Water Safety Is at Risk
LiveScience
- FDA bans red dye No. 3 in food
- One of Iceland's largest volcanoes sees swarm of 130 earthquakes — could it be about to blow?
- 'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves
- 20,000-year-old 'human' fossils from Japan aren't what we thought
- Were the Celts matriarchal? Ancient DNA reveals men married into local, powerful female lineages
- Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us
- Curse tablet found in Roman-era grave in France targets enemies by invoking Mars, the god of war
- Rare string of 'cosmic pearls' dance together in the universe
- Scientists discover enormous reservoir hidden in Cascades — more than twice the amount of water in Lake Mead
- World's tiniest cat was a palm-sized tiddler that lived in China 300,000 years ago
ScienceDaily
- Super-Earth vs. Sub-Neptune? The winner is Super-Venus!
- Not all Hot Jupiters orbit solo
- Researchers identify three psychological profiles that could determine the evolution of mental, cognitive and brain health in aging
- How cryogenic microscopy could help strengthen food security
- DNA damage can last unrepaired for years, changing our view of mutations
- Could this fundamental discovery revolutionize fertilizer use in farming?
- How one brain circuit encodes memories of both places and events
- Deep learning designs proteins against deadly snake venom
- Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women
- Scientists identify new epigenetic approach to target colorectal cancer