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Enormous 'Cat's Tail' tells of cosmic collision 63 light-years away
Sixty-three light-years from Earth, in the small, faint constellation known as Pictor (which is Latin for "painter"), there lies a strange structure that has pu...
New tropical protea flowers expand floriculture opportunities across Hawaiʻi
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) have bred new "tropical" pincushion protea (Leuco...
Grand Theft Astro: Stars' criminal histories could reshape estimates of their internal magnetic fields
Magnetic fields exist in many stars, including the sun. Yet they remain too poorly understood to be reliably included in stellar evolution models, limiting thei...
Ultrathin carbon ribbons conduct electricity like metals in first successful synthesis
As modern electronic devices shrink, so do the metal electrical wires inside them. However, they start to run into serious problems the smaller they get. Conven...
Underpreparing for severe climate risks can cost the UK far more than overpreparing, experts warn
Experts in climate, nature, health, national security, and financial risk have joined forces to call for a more integrated approach to government climate and na...
Brighter evenings, darker school mornings: Permanent daylight saving time could put children's safety at risk
In July 2026, the U.S. House passed legislation to make daylight saving time (DST) permanent. But a new analysis of the consequences of the Sunshine Protection...
What makes forest protection work?
A new study from the Institute for Food and Resource Economics at the University of Bonn shows that the success of nature conservation measures depends partly o...
Theoretical method uses light to locate anyons, potential quantum computing building blocks
Theoretical physicists at Emory University have discovered a way to use light to detect the "spectral fingerprints" of anyons—exotic quasiparticles that emerge...
New mathematical method improves calculations for systems limited by their smallest input
A harmonic increment provides a new way to improve smooth approximations of the minimum function. In a recent paper, published in the Journal of Inequalities an...
Ancient Alberta fish fossils reveal evolutionary secrets of modern species
Rare, complete fossils of ancient fish discovered in Alberta are helping fill in the gaps in our knowledge about which freshwater fish were living in North Amer...
Modest gamma-ray flash followed by dazzling afterglow points to powerful stellar jet viewed off-axis
A cosmic explosion that announced itself with a modest flash of gamma rays went on to produce one of the brightest afterglows astronomers have recorded in the p...
Indoor plants could improve air quality and cooling
In a study published in Eco-Environment and Health, a team of 35 international experts led by Surrey's Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) reviewed sev...