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Senate Advances Permitting Overhaul But Roadblocks Loom
The Senate voted Monday to advance long-sought bipartisan legislation to speed permitting of big energy projects, amid acrimony over whether the bill’s support for clean energy wi…
LHC collaboration presents first result in the hunt for 'quirks'
An international collaboration of physicists has presented its first results in its search for hypothetical particles that could help to explain the vast disparity between the str…
Researcher uses AI to predict probabilities for chemical processes
Quantum chemistry can be used to calculate the probabilities of which chemical processes will occur. This involves a great deal of programming work. Dr. Michael F. Peintinger from…
Why the current strategy to manage mule deer populations may not be working
Following a surge of interest in deer hunting beginning in the '80s and '90s, strategies to manage deer populations evolved to increase the proportion of mature male deer. While t…
Finland's white-tailed eagle success story: What long-term data reveal about recovery
The white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) was once a rare species in Europe due to persecution and pollution. Thanks to legal protection and cleaner environments, many populat…
X-ray observations uncover possible jet warning signs in black hole systems
Black hole jet ejections are powerful outbursts of high-energy photons and particles that provide insights into extreme astrophysical processes. However, predicting when they will…
NASA Scientists Show How Gravitational Waves Can Reveal New Worlds
The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) observatory, now in development, will detect gravitational waves, the tiny ripples in space-time caused by orbiting masses. Now two s…
Tiny nutrient, big mystery: Key gene reveals how cereal crops transport nickel
Nickel plays an important physiological role in plants, but how it is transported over long distances from stems and leaves to grains was poorly understood for more than 50 years.…
Changing magnetic dimensionality boosts spin-wave frequency in Cr₂₋δTe₂
Magnons are quasiparticles that represent quantized spin waves in magnetic materials. They can carry information without moving electric charge, making them promising for future i…
Molecular structures reveal how a bacteriophage protein inhibits bacterial cell wall synthesis
Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming more common worldwide, posing a major public health challenge. Addressing this problem requires finding new ways to eliminate bacteria, which …
A robot just built a structure autonomously in space for the 1st time ever
A robot built part of an antenna in orbit recently, showcasing skills that could potentially allow the assembly of space telescopes and other large structures off Earth.
How cells pull together: Theoretical study reveals a hidden source of attraction
Imagine two people standing on a stretchy sheet. When one pulls, the other feels the fabric move and responds with a pull of their own. Each adjustment changes what the other feel…
Team designs molecules that efficiently generate orange-to-red light for OLED displays
Most of us spend much of our day staring at organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, which convert electricity into light to produce the colorful displays on smartphones, computer…
Curiosity Mars rover sizes up new 'Nazca' dig site | Space photo of the day for Nov. 10, 2026
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is sizing up its next dig site on the Red Planet. The Curiosity team will characterize the surface composition of "Nazca" as thoroughly as possible bef…
CHAPEA Crew Leaves a Mark
The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mission 2 crew arranged photos around a boot print in the simulated Martian sand outside their habitat on Aug. 31, 2026…
COP31 Meets the Overshoot Era
Yesterday, delegates from about 200 countries arrived in Antalya, a resort city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, for the 31st United Nations climate summit. It is the first “Confe…
A catalyst that protects itself while producing hydrogen
Cobalt phosphide (CoP) is a promising alternative to platinum for producing hydrogen from water. However, scientists have struggled to explain why it performs so well. Computer mo…
Simulations cast doubt on unusual asteroid's 'dark comet' status
In 2031, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft will arrive at the near-Earth asteroid 1998 KY26: a tiny body that is accelerating in a way that astronomers have struggled to explain. Some …
A new role for chlorine: Uncovering anion redox in solid-state battery cathodes
As demand grows for safer and more capable rechargeable batteries, scientists are looking beyond the familiar metal-centered chemistry of conventional cathodes. A promising route …
Scientists release large-scale in situ cryo-ET resource for mouse sperm ultrastructure
The scale, quality and regional coverage of public cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) data resources have been insufficient, severely limiting data reuse, cross-regional compariso…
See the first images from the new ZWO Seestar S30 Plus — a smart telescope aimed at beginners
While rivals announce increasingly expensive smart telescopes, ZWO’s new Seestar S30 Plus makes galaxy and nebula photography surprisingly affordable.
World's most sensitive lab-based axion search presents its first results
Physicists at the ALPS II collaboration have reported the first results from the Any-Light-Particle-Search (ALPS) II experiment: the most sensitive instrument of its kind in the s…
Pharma firms’ focus on weight-loss drugs could put insulin supply at risk, experts warn
GLP-1 products such as Ozempic and Mounjaro spread but many in poorer countries struggle to get basic diabetes treatmentThe gold rush into GLP-1 weight-loss drugs risks diverting …
Total solar eclipse 2027 vs 2028 — Which one should you choose, Egypt or Australia?
From six minutes of darkness in Egypt or totality over the Australian Outback, here are the pros and cons of the next two total solar eclipses.