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Entanglement Survives Violence of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

15 September 2026 at 22:06

In 2012, physicists from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN announced the discovery of a new boson looking very much like the Higgs boson. Image credit: Daniel Dominguez / CERN.

Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have confirmed that quantum entanglement -- the phenomenon Albert Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance’ -- can survive in some of the most extreme conditions ever produced in a laboratory.

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Mercury Has Shrunk Even More than Planetary Scientists Thought

14 September 2026 at 19:41

This color image of Mercury was generated from three MESSENGER images taken through filters sensitive to light in different wavelengths. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The Solar System’s smallest planet has contracted by nearly 19 km (12 miles) across, as crater debris masked telltale wrinkles on its surface, according to new research led by the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Research.

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Elephants Show Talent for Resisting Impulses

9 September 2026 at 21:45

Experiment setup: (A) an elephant enters the ‘over’ opening to gain access to food in a familiarization trial; (B) an elephant enters the ‘under’ opening to gain access to food (apple) in a test trial. Image credit: Sangpa Dittakul.

In experiments in Thailand, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) learned to ignore an enticing but ineffective route to food and quickly adapted when a familiar solution stopped working.

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Dark Energy May Not Be Constant After All, New Supernova Survey Suggests

8 September 2026 at 17:21

This is an artist’s concept of a Type Ia supernova exploding in the intergalactic space between galaxies within a galactic cluster. Image credit: Alex Parker / NASA / SDSS.

Astronomers have combined 2,884 Type Ia supernovae -- which are used to measure cosmic distances -- with cosmic microwave background and galaxy-mapping data, deepening cracks in the standard ‘cosmological constant’ model.

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Young Chimps Develop Their Own Accents, New Study Finds

4 September 2026 at 18:02

Eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), a mother with a young, at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Image credit: Ikiwaner.

Researchers tracking grunts, whimpers and laughter across two geographically separated chimpanzee populations found that vocal differences sharpen with age.

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Scientists Map Genetics of Personality across Million People

3 September 2026 at 22:15

$According to Professor Graur, the functional fraction within the human genome cannot exceed 25%, and is probably considerably lower.$

Researchers have identified more than 1,200 locations in the human genome associated with personality traits, offering the most detailed look yet at the biological underpinnings of traits like sociability, anxiety and curiosity.

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Neutrino Laser is Physically and Fundamentally Impossible, Physicists Say

2 September 2026 at 22:43

B.J.P. Jones & J.A. Formaggio devise an idea for a laser that shoots a beam of neutrinos. Image credit: Gemini AI.

In a pair of papers published in the journal Physical Review Letters, a team of MIT physicists has shown that the neutrino laser -- a concept proposed just a year ago -- cannot actually be built, no matter how advanced the technology becomes.

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Inouye Solar Telescope Discovers Hidden Plasma Vortices on Sun

7 August 2026 at 17:13

The highest-resolution image of the Sun’s surface (photosphere) ever captured, taken at 416 nm by the Inouye Solar Telescope; it reveals deformed boundaries of magnetic elements and ultra-fine scale stripes, both associated with Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Image credit: NSF / NSO / AURA / MPS.

Astronomers using the 4-m Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have detected tiny plasma vortices on the Sun’s surface (photosphere) for the first time, revealing a long-suspected process that could transport energy into the million-degree corona.

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Curiosity Finds Massive Field of Honeycomb-Shaped Fractures on Mars

5 August 2026 at 19:02

$The polygon fractures discovered by Curiosity in Gale crater, Mars. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.$

NASA’s Curiosity rover has stumbled on the largest patch of polygon-shaped ground fractures it has ever seen on Mars, a discovery that could reveal more about the planet’s watery past.

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Astronomers Discover First-Ever Three-Lobed Asteroid

4 August 2026 at 22:17

This image of the Nysa system was captured on February 15, 2026. Image credit: Minker et al., arXiv: 2607.25786.

High-resolution images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Large Binocular Telescope reveal that the E-type asteroid (44) Nysa may be unlike any other world in the Solar System, with three connected lobes and a newly discovered satellite that could help explain how the bizarre object formed.

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Moths Can Smell With Their Wings, Researchers Say

30 July 2026 at 21:46

Reda Ismaieel et al. examined the olfactory capabilities of the wings of the tobacco hawkmoth (Manduca sexta). Image credit: Reda Ismaieel et al., doi: 10.1242/jeb.252047.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology have found that moth wings are equipped with odor-detecting receptors, suggesting the insects use their wings -- not just their antennae -- to sense chemical cues in the air while flying.

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Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Didn’t Just Strike Earth, Its Dust Cloud Cooked It

29 July 2026 at 22:33

Ankylosaurus magniventris, a large armored dinosaur species, witnesses the impact of an asteroid, falling on the Yucatan peninsula 66 million years ago. Image credit: Fabio Manucci.

The Chicxulub impact not only plunged Earth into an impact winter but also produced a dust blanket that later overheated the planet, according to new research from Purdue University and the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Astronomers Spot Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Far From Its Galaxy’s Heart

29 July 2026 at 14:36

TDE 2025abcr. Image credit: Stein et al., doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae77f3.

Astronomers have discovered a dormant supermassive black hole 30,000 light-years from the center of WISEA J014656.04-152214.7 -- a massive galaxy located about 750 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus -- after it briefly lit up by tearing apart a star.

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Europa’s Ice Shell May Be Tougher Barrier than Planetary Scientists Hoped

27 July 2026 at 12:03

Artist’s concept of ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Europa’s subsurface ocean has long topped astrobiologists’ wish lists as a place to search for life beyond Earth.

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Giant Rift Valleys Hint Venus is Still Tectonically Active

24 July 2026 at 18:22

This hemispheric view of Venus was created using radar observations, including images from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft. Magellan imaged more than 98% of Venus. Gaps in the Magellan coverage were filled with images from the Earth-based Arecibo radar. The composite image was processed to improve contrast and to emphasize small features, and was color-coded to represent elevation. Magellan launched on May 4, 1989, and was deployed from the cargo bay of Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 5, 1989. The spacecraft orbited Venus from August 10, 1990, until October 13, 1994 when the spacecraft was commanded to plunge into the atmosphere of Venus. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS.

New 3D computer simulations from ETH Zurich show that young rift flanks on Venus stay tall and steep, while older ones flatten out over time.

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Fern-Fueled Wildfires Raged across Europe for Millennia during End-Triassic Mass Extinction

23 July 2026 at 17:43

An artist’s impression of the end-Triassic fern spike interval. Image credit: Mark Garlick.

A 201-million-year-old climate catastrophe turned Europe into a landscape of fern savannahs that repeatedly caught fire, according to new research published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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Space Weather May Warp Martian Weather during Dust Storms, Planetary Scientists Suggest

22 July 2026 at 22:03

These images from Mars Color Imager (MARCI) aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show Mars before (left) and during (right) the June 2018 dust storm. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona.

Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the lower atmosphere of Mars during massive dust storms, hinting at an unexpected link between space weather and Martian climate.

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Hugs May Be an Ancient Peacekeeping Tool, Ape Study Suggests

22 July 2026 at 20:01

Examples of bonobo and chimpanzee reassurance behaviors. Image credit: Z. Clay / J.S. Brooker.

In a new study of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus), scientists found that embraces, touches and other reassuring gestures before competition for food were linked to more peaceful sharing, suggesting the roots of human social touch stretch back at least six million years.

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Our Milky Way Galaxy Likely Underwent Disk Flip after Ancient Galactic Collision: Study

22 July 2026 at 16:57

Using supercomputer simulations of galaxies like the Milky Way, Batrakov et al. found that galaxies with slowly rotating stellar haloes are more likely to have experienced a major ‘disk flip,’ where our Galaxy’s disk changed its orientation by more than 90 degrees. Image credit: Batrakov et al.

A head-on collision with another galaxy billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented the Milky Way’s disk, according to new supercomputer simulations that reveal how violent mergers can leave spiral galaxies looking surprisingly normal today.

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Puzzling Near-Earth Asteroid Turns Out to Be Comet with Weak Tail

21 July 2026 at 20:21

This artist’s concept depicts a near-Earth asteroid with an elongated orbit; a few objects such as these can exhibit significant perturbations in their motion around the Sun and, like 1998 SH2, could turn out to be regular comets with a weak tail and coma. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

The near-Earth object (875163) 1998 SH2, which is currently classified as an asteroid, has revealed a hidden identity: it’s actually a comet in disguise, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

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