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Sunshine can help with some serious health problems, argues a new book

While Europe’s heatwave makes us run for shade, the intriguing In Defense of Sunlight reveals sunlight’s health-giving…

Does creatine make you smarter?

Creatine is a normal nutrient found in meat and synthesized by the body that helps deliver energy to cells.

IVF embryos may thrive when grown with less oxygen

Decreasing the amount of oxygen that IVF-conceived embryos are developed in could improve outcomes, such as reducing the…

What the world’s happiest countries can teach us about joyful living

As editor of the World Happiness Report, few people know more than Jan-Emmanuel De Neve about what makes a country happy.

Phone breathalyser can detect when your body switches to burning fat

A handheld breathalyser picks up on a molecule called acetone, revealing that your body is using fat for energy

I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC

A researcher built a proof-of-concept genomics study using Stoffel MPC that allowed 100 simulated participants to…

What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?

A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons.

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

The original Apollo 11 guidance computer source code for both the Command Module (Comanche055) and Lunar Module…

Magic rituals took place in an Australian cave for 25,000 years

Preserved plant cells show that grasses were brought into Cloggs cave in Australia and burnt over many millennia,…

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

A counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture—a long-standing open problem in mathematics—has been found in three…

Confusion swirls on source of diarrhea outbreak, but it’s still Taylor Farms

Taylor Farms stirred confusion on FDA test and provided a vague recall list.

The Price of Happiness

Researcher Matthew Killingsworth finds that happiness increases almost perfectly linearly with the logarithm of…

Greedy is optimal for single-pass semi-streaming matching

Researchers proved that no single-pass semi-streaming algorithm can achieve better than a 50% approximation for the…

Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals

A single chemical made by mole-rat queens enforces the social order.

Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline in size of area burned in 2025

The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.

Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa

Beninese scientists have rediscovered a thriving coral reef off the coast of Benin, more than 60 years after fishing…

How to unlock unlimited geothermal energy, anywhere we want

Earth contains more than enough heat to power humanity many times over, but so far only a few lucky places have been…

Effort to solve biggest controversy in mathematics has made no progress

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been…

Everything from cells to stars to particles exists on the edge of chaos

Complex systems, be they living beings or fundamental particles, need to have enough structure to hang together along…

The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches

The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches.

'If only people knew what a tick could do' - the deadly meat allergies caused by tick bites

Mammalian meat allergy is a growing problem along Australia's east coast - and it's caused by tick bites.

Inhaling high dose CO2 clears Alzheimer’s proteins from the brain

Intermittingly inhaling a high dose of carbon dioxide seems to remove the proteins amyloid and tau, which are implicated…

Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video]

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AI’s solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has…

Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: AHA Scientific Statement

We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies

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Strange paraparticles could be reality’s missing ingredient

Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely.

Rare identical quadruplets born in Australia

The parents of the four naturally-conceived girls were taken by "immense surprise" with the pregnancy, the hospital said.