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Comet from another star has a composition unlike anything else in our solar system
Astronomers have revealed new details about the makeup and age of a visiting comet that was born around a distant star. They conclude that the composition of 3I...
Massive sturgeon once bred in Britain's rivers, boosting reintroduction hopes
Atlantic and European sturgeon once called Britain's rivers home and could do so again, following research using Natural History Museum specimens. These fish ar...
Image: Mediterranean Sea breaks June surface heat record
This image shows the sea surface temperature anomaly detected in the Mediterranean Sea on June 29, 2026, compared with the average for the period 1991–2020, wit...
More colorful songbirds face higher extinction risk
In the humid jungle of Vietnam, Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela and Monte Neate-Clegg spent hours patiently waiting to spot the rare "Halloween bird." Officially known a...
Mission documents ecosystem interactions of radioactive waste dumped in the Atlantic between 1950 and 1990
Between 1950 and 1990, more than 200,000 barrels filled with radioactive waste were dumped in the depths of the North-East Atlantic. Following an initial missio...
Honeybee queens push pesticides to eggs to protect themselves over their offspring, research reveals
Worker bees are the first line of defense when it comes to removing contamination in honeybee colonies, but a queen has her ways, too. A honeybee queen facing c...
Rethinking the governance of human embryo research: Comparing Japan's guidelines with international standards
Human embryo models can help researchers study early human development and infertility without relying solely on human embryos. As the technology advances, thes...
How heat stress triggers emergency programs in plants
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have found how plant cells respond to stress. If their energy supply is disrupted by heat, drought or...
A holoparasitic plant replaces its own genes with host DNA to survive
All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and performing biological functions, fr...
Enriching conversations with toddlers
Asking open-ended questions and weaving conversations into everyday activities helps toddlers' communication skills, new research shows. Three recently publishe...
Quantum semiconductor design could expand search for dark matter
Dark matter accounts for 85% of the matter in the universe, but scientists still do not know what it is made of. A study, published in Physical Review Letters,...
AI could bring satellite crop monitoring to the world's most vulnerable farms
Small farms grow much of the world's food, but from space they are nearly invisible. Their fields are tiny and ill-defined, and the satellite tools built to tra...