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In its latest observation, Webb captured an image of 14 Herculis c, a frigid giant planet orbiting a star 60 light-years from Earth. From this single, cold speck in space, researchers are uncovering new details about the planet’s temperature, unusual orbit, and even how its atmosphere behaves, offering a rare glimpse into the strange dynamics of alien worlds.

Half of the universe's ordinary matter was missing — until now.

Astronomers have used mysterious but powerful explosions of energy called fast radio bursts (FRBs) to detect the universe's missing "normal" matter for the first time.

This previously missing stuff isn't dark matter, the mysterious substance that accounts for around 85% of the material universe but remains invisible because it doesn't interact with light. Instead, it is ordinary matter made out of atoms (composed of baryons) that does interact with light but has until now just been too dark to see.

The Xiaohe site contains three types of burials. Type 1, which is the most abundant, is characterized by burials with wooden coffins placed in pits dug into the sand. These coffins are typically narrow and straight, transitioning into a more curved shape. The head of the coffin typically has an erect pole.

The second type, of which there are only four, contains only female bodies and is characterized by a clay shell outside the wooden coffin.

The final type is a unique rectangular structure with a triangular entrance. It is covered in multiple layers of cattle skin and topped with layers of cattle skulls. Despite being characterized as a third burial type, no human bones have been recovered from this site, possibly indicating that it may have had a different function.

The goal of the experiment is to gain insight into distant cosmic events by analyzing signals that reach the Earth. Rather than reflecting off the ice, the signals—a form of radio waves—appeared to be coming from below the horizon, an orientation that cannot be explained by the current understanding of particle physics and may hint at new types of particles or interactions previously unknown to science, the team said.

People tend to have misconceptions about what is involved in being a journalist. We have this notion that journalists are the tenacious tellers of truths, speaking truth to power. Lois Lane. Their job is to take to their newspapers and tell people what all the bad guys have been doing, and how they know.

That’s the impression we typically get from the fiction we consume – journalism is about individuals, the personalities who dig deep, right wrongs, then tell you all about it. But it’s not really how journalism works. It’s not even how it works when it’s working the way it should, because journalism isn’t really meant to be about the voice and personality of the journalist, it’s meant to be about the unvarnished truth.

With all these examples and discussions of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, it is undeniable that the U.S. has focused attention on whether there is evidence of extraterrestrial life. It is difficult to say if this is to refute all sightings, to prove that alien intelligence exists, or simply to study UAPs in the most scientific and logical way. This third option seems the most likely.

Conclusions. We present the first spatially resolved observational evidence of large grains within an outflow cavity wall. Our results suggest that these grains have been transported from the inner disc to the envelope by protostellar winds and may subsequently fall back into the outer disc by gravity and/or via accretion streamers. This cycle provides longer time for grains to grow, demonstrating their crucial role in the formation of planetesimals.

In the Roman city of Pollentia (Mallorca, Western Mediterranean), an exceptional zooarchaeological assemblage was recovered from a cesspit dated between the first century BC and the first century ad.

The structure, situated in a commercial area adjacent to the forum, was connected to a food shop (taberna) via an underground drainage system used for waste disposal.

The faunal remains from the cesspit include mammals, fish, reptiles, and birds, with song thrushes (Turdus cf. philomelos) constituting the most abundant avian species. The unique depositional context and zooarchaeological indicators, such as skeletal part representation, provide valuable insights into the preparation and consumption of these small birds.

This evidence suggests that thrushes were commonly sold and consumed in Roman urban spaces, challenging the prevailing notion based on written sources that thrushes were exclusively a luxury food item for elite banquets.

The study offers new perspectives on the role of street food and everyday culinary practices in the Roman Mediterranean.

A new study published in Physical Review Letters reports that closed-shell PAHs, such as the indenyl cation, employ a surprising survival strategy: Instead of breaking apart, they efficiently dissipate excess energy through recurrent fluorescence and infrared emission. This clever mechanism allows them to resist the extreme conditions of space far more effectively than previously believed.

PAHs are scattered in interstellar space, serving as one of the galaxy's largest reservoirs of carbon, holding up to 10%–25% of the element essential for building life. These molecules have unique infrared signatures, detected using radio and infrared emission astronomy.

As it turns out, chimpanzees make pretty good doctors. For decades, scientists have been studying what chimpanzees do when they fall ill. This search has led to the identification of medicinal behaviour, which often involves the ingestion of plants with chemical or physical properties that can help the animal’s recovery.

Previous studies have shown that wild chimpanzees appear to treat their wounds and maintain sexual hygiene using medicinal plants found in their environment. What’s more, they treat other group members, even ones who are unrelated to them....

We also headed into the field to collect eight months of our own behavioural data. The aim: to accumulate all the cases we could find of external healthcare behaviour and see if a pattern emerged.

What we found surprised us. The Budongo chimpanzees appear to have quite a diverse behavioural toolkit for tending to their own wounds and maintaining hygiene in the wild. This behaviour ranges from simple actions like wound licking, to more complicated behaviour such as applying plant material to an injury.

In some cases, chimpanzees dabbed their open wounds with leaves. In rarer cases, they chewed up plant material (like leaves or stem bark) and applied it directly to the affected area with their mouths. Similar behaviour was shown in Sumatran orangutans in 2024.

A police force has asked people to report crop circles, warning that creating them without the landowner's permission is criminal damage.

Crop circles are a common sight in Wiltshire with many created legally but some are not and Wiltshire Police said they can cause "short and long-term damage to crops and fields".

The force said they also attract other issues, such as unlawful drone use, aggravated trespass and theft from farm buildings.

"While they might look impressive, creating a crop circle without the landowner's permission is criminal damage. These acts can cause serious short and long-term damage to crops and fields and may also attract further illegal activity", said Wiltshire Police.

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We now know that 1 in every 4 stars, at least, has a planet that is the same size as Earth and is rocky, and is the same temperature as Earth, so it's what we would call a habitable-zone planet. Those are very secure conclusions.

The next step is identifying biosignatures—chemicals in a planet's atmosphere that could only be there because of biological processes. Charbonneau says that the necessary evidence faces a major technological hurdle: It requires far more data than our current instruments can provide.

There's still the question of just how common life, let alone intelligent life, really is. It's possible, Charbonneau said, that if you take any habitable-zone planet, add water, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and give it about a billion years, life will develop. Or you could have those very same conditions, and it would all remain stubbornly lifeless. You only have to look at the first habitable planet to have a much better idea how common life is.

According to our theory, there was no precise moment at which the wheel was invented. Rather, just like the evolution of species, the wheel emerged gradually from an accumulation of small improvements.

This is just one of the many chapters in the wheel’s long and ongoing evolution. More than 5,000 years after the contributions of the Carpathian miners, a Parisian bicycle mechanic invented radial ball bearings, which once again revolutionized wheeled transportation.

Ironically, ball bearings are conceptually identical to rollers, the wheel’s evolutionary precursor. Ball bearings form a ring around the axle, creating a rolling interface between the axle and the wheel hub, thereby circumventing friction. With this innovation, the evolution of the wheel came full circle.

This example also shows how the wheel’s evolution, much like its iconic shape, traces a circuitous path – one with no clear beginning, no end, and countless quiet revolutions along the way.

Scientists from the Natural History Museum have unraveled the geological mysteries behind jadarite, a rare lithium-bearing mineral with the potential to power Europe's green energy transition which, so far, has only been found in one place on Earth, Serbia's Jadar Basin.

Discovered in 2004 and described by museum scientists Chris Stanley and Mike Rumsey, jadarite made headlines for its uncanny resemblance to the chemical formula of Kryptonite, the fictional alien mineral which depletes Superman's powers. However, today its value is more economic and environmental, offering a high lithium content and lower-energy route to extraction compared to traditional sources like spodumene.

Advances in detection technology have led to an exponential growth in data, necessitating innovative and efficient analysis methods. This problem is exacerbated by the large variety of possible forms an extraterrestrial signal might take, and the size of the multidimensional parameter space that must be searched. It is then made markedly worse by the fact that our best guess at the properties of such a signal is that it might resemble the signals emitted by human technology and communications, the main (yet diverse) contaminant in radio observations. We address this challenge by using a combination of simulations and machine learning methods for anomaly detection.

Conspiratorial thinking can connect many distinct or distant ills to a central cause. This belief has visual form in the octopus map: a map where a central force (for instance a nation, an ideology, or an ethnicity) is depicted as a literal or figurative octopus, with extending tendrils. In this paper, we explore how octopus maps function as visual arguments through an analysis of historical examples as well as a through a crowd-sourced study on how the underlying data and the use of visual metaphors contribute to specific negative or conspiratorial interpretations. We find that many features of the data or visual style can lead to “octopus-like” thinking in visualizations, even without the use of an explicit octopus motif. We conclude with a call for a deeper analysis of visual rhetoric, and an acknowledgment of the potential for the design of data visualizations to contribute to harmful or conspiratorial thinking.

Now new analysis has given rise to evidence which points to a strong, decaying ionized field coming from the Buga sphere, said Rodolfo Garrido, a Mexican engineer working with a team from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

In a recent appearance on Maussan Televisión, Garrido revealed what scientists have found out so far about the sphere and its purpose, following months of research. He revealed to stunned viewers that the sphere had increased in weight since it landed and was now five times heavier, despite never changing in volume.

Garrido said the sphere was capable of generating its own electromagnetic field, speaking to UFO researcher Jaime Maussan on the TV program Interstellar. He added this field was used to levitate above the ground.

Other researchers had observed gorillas scratching at soil in a few places in Congo, Gabon and the Central African Republic, and they had also assumed it was an insect-foraging strategy. Abea and his colleagues cleared things up by following four groups of Ndoki gorillas for years, documenting their actions and collecting specimens of the small, round objects they saw the apes picking up and eating from the scratched earth.

Taxonomic and molecular analysis revealed that the subterranean morsels were Elaphomyces labyrinthinus, a truffle species that looks like a smaller version of the kind humans eat. Not all the area’s gorilla groups engaged in regular soil scratching, but all seemed capable of it. One individual doubled the time she spent consuming truffles after she switched from a group that rarely foraged for the fungi to one that frequently did. Such observations suggest that truffle-foraging strategies are flexible and might be socially transmitted rather than linked to some environmental factor.

In 1672, enraged by a fake news campaign, rioters killed the recently ousted head of state Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis. The mob hung them upside down, removed their organs, ate parts of the corpses, and sold fingers and tongues as souvenirs.

Even in a period characterised by torture and assassination, this grisly act stands out as extreme. But it also stands as a warning from history about what can happen when disinformation is allowed to run rampant.

The attack on Johan and Cornelis de Witt was fuelled by a relentless flood of malicious propaganda and forgeries claiming the brothers were corrupt, immoral elitists who had conspired with enemies of the Dutch Republic.

The anonymous authors of the smear campaigns blamed Johan for war with England and “all the bloodshed, killing and injuring, the crippled and mutilated people, including widows and orphans” that allegedly kept him in power.

In most vertebrates, skin appendages such as hair, feathers, or scales originate from placodes—small, specialized skin regions whose spatial organization is controlled by well-conserved genetic signals. Crocodiles are an exception: their head scales do not emerge from placodes but result from simple mechanical folding of the growing skin.

A new study from UNIGE shows that turtles employ both of these distinct processes to develop the scales on different parts of their heads. These findings suggest that the mechanical shaping of scales is an ancestral trait, shared with crocodiles and likely dinosaurs, but lost in birds.

From an evolutionary perspective, this discovery is significant. Tortoises and aquatic turtles (collectively known as Testudinata) are the closest living relatives of crocodiles and birds. The fact that turtles and crocodiles share a mechanical process for forming head scales suggests it originated in their common ancestor and was later lost in birds.

Some lawmakers laughed with disbelief and others listened intently, as Coates described situations that are often noted in discussions of “chemtrails” — a decades-old conspiracy theory that posits the white lines left behind by aircraft in the sky are releasing chemicals for any number of reasons, some of them nefarious. As she urged lawmakers to ban the unsubstantiated practice, she told skeptics to “start looking up” at the sky.

Such bills being crafted is indicative of how misinformation is moving beyond the online world and into public policy. Elevating unsubstantiated theories or outright falsehoods into the legislative arena not only erodes democratic processes, according to experts, it provides credibility where there is none and takes away resources from actual issues that need to be addressed.

Once he understood how key retinoic acid was to the body's signaling, Monaghan started testing the limits of this system in ways that were "pretty Frankensteiny," he says. By adding extra retinoic acid in an axolotl's hand, the salamander grew a duplicated limb instead of just a hand.

Understanding the signal for regeneration is a major step toward applying these lessons to humans, Monaghan says. Humans have retinoic acid and fibroblasts too, but unlike the axolotl's body, where signals are getting sent between all these biological players, the cells in the human body are just not listening in the same way.

When we injure an arm, our fibroblasts lay down collagen and start making a scar. In axolotls, the fibroblasts listen to retinoic acid and "turn back time just a little bit," growing a new skeleton.

The researchers focused their efforts on the skull of a young girl dated to approximately 6,200 years ago. They estimated her to have been under the age of 20 when she died, and she had also undergone tight head bandaging from a young age—a practice that had left her head cone-shaped. After taking CT scans of the skull, the researchers were able to see changes to the bone making up the skull—much of it was thinner than normal, putting the girl at higher risk of a head injury.

They were also able to see that it was a head injury that had killed the girl—her skull was fractured from near the front all the way to the back, and there were no signs of healing. The researchers suggest the fracture had been caused by someone wielding a broad-edged object. There was no bone penetration, but the reduced bone thickness allowed the force of the strike to make its way to the brain. The rest of her skeleton has not yet been found due to the density of remains in the gravesite.