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Heat-trapping carbon pollution drops, but scientists cite the Iran war rather than energy progress
Global carbon pollution dropped this year ever so slightly, but it's more because of oil shocks reverberating from the Iran war than anything the world has done to fight climate change, scientists said ...
Scientists created an empty, lifeless Earth in a computer. And it could help us find alien life in the Galaxy | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
A team of scientists have built a model of a lifeless Earth that they can use to search for signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars.
ECU Notes: Golden LEAF helps ECU grow pipeline of clinical laboratory scientists
Clinical laboratory scientists can be described as “behind the scenes” healthcare professionals, yet they are essential to patient care.
A National Mentoring Program Helps Scientists Advance Their Careers
One initiative connects trainees and early career researchers across the US with mentors, professional resources, and opportunities to help diversify science.
Scientists sue National Science Foundation over dismantling of social sciences
Gregg Sparkman, assistant professor at Boston College, and Jenna Croteau, a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have signed onto the lawsuit with a coalition of scientific societies.
Iran war led to rare carbon dioxide emissions drop this year, scientists say
Carbon dioxide emissions around the world declined for only the third time this century, but researchers are not crediting environmental efforts. Instead, they attribute the drop to the Iran war.
Iran war helps fuel global drop in fossil fuel emissions
In the run-up to the COP31 U.N. climate change conference, scientists have revealed that global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to drop by 0.4% this year, driven by growth in installed wind and solar power capacity, as well as oil price hikes caused by the Iran conflict. But climate goals are still unlikely to be met.
Heat-trapping carbon pollution drops, but scientists cite the Iran war rather than energy progress
Global carbon pollution dropped this year ever so slightly, but it's more because of oil shocks reverberating from the Iran war than anything the world has done to fight climate change, scientists said in a new study.
Heat-trapping carbon pollution drops, but scientists cite Iran war
Emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels decreased slightly this year due to the Iran war
Scientists expect global fossil fuel emissions to ease this year
LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Global fossil fuel carbon emissions are set to fall this year, because of high energy prices and increased use of renewable power, though it is too soon to say they have
Trump-Era Funding Cuts Driving Young Scientists From U.S. Research
Under Trump, new Ph.D. enrollments are down, funding is on the decline and many budding researchers are reconsidering their careers.
Scientists create a powder that seals deep wounds almost instantly
Researchers at KAIST have developed a powder that forms a wound-sealing gel in one second, with animal tests showing faster bleeding control than commercially available materials.
Why scientists in 1960s predicted world would end on Friday
Projections of continued population growth caused ‘immediate stir’ and raised fears for the future
Why scientists in 1960s predicted world would end on Friday
Projections of continued population growth caused ‘immediate stir’ and raised fears for the future
Baby right whale discovered off Canada gives scientists cause for joy
Scientists who study whales are heartened by an unexpected discovery of a baby right whale off Canada.
Scientists think they've found ancient remnants of dinosaur blood
Scientists have studied plenty of dinosaur bones, eggs and footprints. Now, some think they've found their strongest evidence yet of dinosaur blood.
Scientists test snow feeding Nevada's water supply — and find plastic at all 7 sites
"There's this boomerang effect, and it's important we recognize that."
Baby chimpanzees blow 'raspberries' because adults do it first
In a surprising first, scientists observed the primates learning new sounds.
Scientists Sue as Trump Administration Tries to Deliver 'Crushing Blow' to Behavioral and Brain Research
Scientists and research societies sue the Trump administration over its planned shutdown of NSF’s SBE Directorate and cuts to social science funding.
Three Dakota State faculty members named among the world’s top 2% of scientists
Three Dakota State University faculty members have been named to the 2026 Stanford-Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists list.
Scientists checked 3 satellite datasets after spotting color shift in Great Pacific Garbage Patch
"We were shocked, excited, and a little alarmed."
Trump’s Stripping of Social Science Funding Draws New Lawsuit
Scientists are pushing to undo a Trump administration plan to shut down the National Science Foundation’s social and behavioral sciences division, which funds two-thirds of such research nationwide with nearly $250 million in grants.
Trump’s Stripping of Social Science Funding Draws New Lawsuit
Scientists are pushing to undo a Trump administration plan to shut down the National Science Foundation’s social and behavioral sciences division, which funds two-thirds of such research nationwide with nearly $250 million in grants.
Comite Civico del Valle Marks Nearly 40 Years of Environmental Health Leadership
Comite Civico del Valle brought the Imperial Valley together on Nov. 4-5 for the 15th annual Environmental Health Leadership Summit at the Old Eucalyptus Schoolhouse in El Centro. Community members, farmworkers, Tribal leaders, scientists, binational partners, local and state officials spent two days on the region's most pressing health and environmental challenges, and on how to solve them together.
Scientists Zapped Mouse Brains With Lasers to Give Them Phantom Visions
This illusion of reality could be playing a game-changing role in the evolution of perception—ours included.
Scientists Spot Previously Missed Baby Of One Of The World's Most Endangered Animals
The baby whale provides a little glimmer of hope for the animals.
Mysterious gas on Mars suggests magma below
Hydrogen chloride found hugging the ground near the martian volcano Alba Mons could be seeping from an active volcanic system deep underground, scientists say.
Scientists Grew Microbes in Mars-Like Conditions for 160 Days. They Didn't Just Survive, They Thrived
An experiment shows that salt-loving microorganisms can reproduce under some of the harsh conditions thought possible beneath Mars' surface, raising new questions about whether life could exist there today.
Is There Really a Link Between Genius and Madness? A Study of 14,658 Twins Just Uncovered a Surprise.
Artists showed a clear link to poorer mental health. Scientists didn’t—and the reason may be unsettling.
Male donkey is a bull’s willing partner in rare interspecies affair
Scientists recorded a bull mounting a male donkey dozens of times — and the donkey appeared to be a willing participant.
Forget Mosquitoes in Amber. Scientists May Have Found Dinosaur Blood in a 115 Million-Year-Old Bone.
Okay, you can’t clone a raptor from heme. But finding it after 115 million years is almost as wild.
Forget Mosquitoes in Amber. Scientists May Have Found Dinosaur Blood in a 115 Million-Year-Old Bone.
Okay, you can’t clone a raptor from heme. But finding it after 115 million years is almost as wild.
Scientists looking to find relatives based off DNA of partial skull found in Mountlake Terrace
Forensic genetic genealogists have processed the DNA of a partial skull found in a home that was sold in Mountlake Terrace in 2025.
Boston's Museum Of Science Puts Creators At The Center Of Its Global Ambitions
The Museum of Science used its first SciCom Summit on November 2 to put other people’s channels at the center of its strategy. The invite-only gathering in Boston brought science creators and scientists into the museum’s new Bloomberg Public Science Common, on the bet that a museum reaches the world by convening the people who already reach it.
Scientists Reach a Record Temperature: 280 Billion Times Colder Than The Universe
Pack your thermals...
Smiling Isn’t Always Good for You, Scientists Discover
A new study reveals that smiling can sometimes backfire, challenging long-held assumptions about facial expressions and happiness. Smiling might make you feel happier, but doing it repeatedly under pressure can have the opposite effect. New psychological research suggests that the emotional benefits of smiling depend on how often people do it, whether they feel compelled
Scientists Say: Occultation
Thanks to one of these events in 1977, astronomers discovered Uranus's rings.
Scientists May Have Discovered a Massive Starless Galaxy
The promising candidate contains roughly 2 billion times the sun’s mass in hydrogen, yet appears to have no stars. Studying it could help answer questions that have vexed astronomers for years.
Illinois River tagging effort to count invasive carp and help protect Lake Michigan
Scientists will monitor about 1,000 silver carp caught and tagged near the confluence of the Illinois and Fox rivers to track their movements in these waterways.
Scientists Uncover Critically Endangered Rays In Singapore's Traditional Medicine Markets
A new study in Singapore used DNA testing to uncover which species were being sold, revealing that 84% of successfully identified samples came from Critically Endangered manta and devil ray species.
Chesapeake Bay’s Osprey Population Is Falling. Is Its Food Supply a Factor?
Scientists and industrial fishermen are locked in finger-pointing over the causes.
Scientists Grew Microbes in Mars-Like Conditions for 160 Days. They Didn't Just Survive, They Thrived
An experiment shows that salt-loving microorganisms can reproduce under some of the harsh conditions thought possible beneath Mars' surface, raising new questions about whether life could exist there today.
Ask a North Korean: Why do scientists get so little respect in the DPRK?
“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with and columns by North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few years. Readers may submit their questions for defectors by emailing ask@nknews.org and including their first name and city of residence. Today’s question asks: How does North Korea […]
Bottling Clouds: The Sky Is Full of Scents We’ve Never Smelled
Scientists are exploring how airborne microbes and molecules could offer a less extractive way to make perfume.
Scientists predict 2026 hottest year on record as climate talks begin
Scientists are predictng this could be the hottest year on record as the COP31 climate summit opens.
El Niño pushes world towards record heat as COP31 opens
Scientists are predictng this could be the hottest year on record as the COP31 climate summit opens.
More than 80% of ‘pro-science’ candidates were swept into office. Will they have a policy impact?
The midterms sent an unusual wave of doctors and scientists into office, and many shared the same backer: the 314 Action Fund, a political action
Larger Dogs Age Faster, And Scientists May Finally Know Why
The findings might help boost human longevity too.
Larger Dogs Age Faster, And Scientists May Finally Know Why
The findings might help boost human longevity too.
UMN art-science installation redefines success through algae and lichen
Exploring the intersection of art and science, a collaborative University of Minnesota project proves that the planet’s most resilient role models might be the ones people overlook every day. Inspired by the slowness, flexibility and omnipresence of terrestrial algae and lichen, Artist-in-Residence Diane Willow collaborated with scientists Daniel Stanton, Beatriz Baselga-Cervera and Daniel Keefe to...
A quantum breakthrough makes light behave like both a solid and a liquid
Scientists have observed a bizarre quantum state of matter that combines the structure of a crystal with the frictionless flow of a liquid, all at room temperature. The breakthrough overturns a major practical limitation of exotic quantum experiments and could help bring powerful new light-based computing and sensing technologies closer to reality.
To the editor: Science belongs everywhere — and it is for everyone
What if the biggest barrier keeping young people today from seeing themselves as scientists, engineers, or inventors isn’t ability, but access? This has ...
Scientists Discover Climate Change May Have Stopped Earth’s Next Ice Age
A new glacial period may have been taking shape in the Arctic until global warming brought its slow advance to a halt. An ice cap in northern Canada began expanding about 2,000 years ago, according to research published in Science. The researchers argue that this growth marked the beginning of Earth’s next glacial period.
Stanford scientists have built a fingernail-sized chip that takes jumbled light from multiple sources and separates it into clean beams; the device could one day improve microscopes, telescopes and cameras
Light is something we rarely think twice about. It enters our homes through windows, illuminates the streets at night and helps us capture everything from a beautiful sunset to the tiniest details under a microscope.
Natural History Museum of Utah hosts first of its kind ‘ScienceFest’
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — Visitors at the Natural History Museum of Utah had the opportunity to meet scientists and learn about research as a part of “ScienceFest” this weekend. The event offered ...
Amyloid Fibers Have an Unexpected Role in Sperm, Scientists Discover
"Seeing this totally blew us away."
Amyloid Fibers Have an Unexpected Role in Sperm, Scientists Discover
"Seeing this totally blew us away."
Einstein Was Right Again: Scientists Discover Chemical Bonds That Defy Textbook Rules
Scientists have uncovered direct evidence that Einstein’s theory of relativity changes how atoms form triple chemical bonds in heavy elements. A fundamental rule of chemical bonding begins to break down when atoms become sufficiently heavy. Chemists at Brown University have found direct experimental evidence that Einstein’s theory of relativity changes the structure of triple bonds,
Scientists Literally Plugged a Mushroom Into a Synth and Made It Play Music!
Fungal bioelectrical signals drive a robotic arm across a MIDI keyboard in a British bio-art project where science and artistic interpretation diverge.
Scientists Literally Plugged a Mushroom Into a Synth and Made It Play Music!
Fungal bioelectrical signals drive a robotic arm across a MIDI keyboard in a British bio-art project where science and artistic interpretation diverge.
Record-breaking X-ray flash pushes the limits of ultrafast science
Scientists created a record-breaking attosecond X-ray flash that could help reveal how electrons move inside atoms and molecules.
Scientists Discover a Hidden Eye Disease That Can Steal Your Night Vision
Researchers can spot signs of a newly identified genetic eye disease before light-sensing cells are lost by measuring how vision recovers in darkness. People with a newly identified genetic eye condition can see well for most of their lives before gradually losing peripheral vision and struggling to see at dusk or at night. The condition
100 buses long: Scientists map one of the world's largest known coral colonies
A huge coral colony stretching more than 1.5 kilometers (0.93 miles) along the outer reef of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands has been identified by researchers, making it one of the largest known coral colonies ...
Would you learn to lucid dream if you could?
Neuroscientists say people can be "trained" to recognize when they're dreaming — in other words, lucid dreaming may be an acquirable skill.
Scientists have found strange objects in deep space unlike anything seen before. And they could help solve a huge mystery in space science | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Astronomers have identified a new class of mysterious hypersoft X-ray source that behave unlike anything catalogued before.
A Bizarre Relationship Between a Bull and Male Donkey Is Confusing Scientists
Researchers in Ethiopia documented an unusual sexual bond between a bull and male donkey, including 51 mountings over two weeks.
Getting Less Than This Much Sunlight During the Day May Increase Your Dementia Risk, Scientists Find
Here’s why.
What makes a singing voice stand out? Scientists identify three key qualities
A singing study linked higher scores to expressive performances, rich voices, and the gentle pitch wobble called vibrato.
Einstein's equations reveal how gravity could break, reconnect, and release energy
More than a century after Einstein revolutionized our understanding of gravity, scientists have uncovered a surprising new phenomenon hidden within his equations. Researchers at Columbia University and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez have identified a theoretical process called "gravitational reconnection," in which structures within gravitational fields can break apart and reconnect, transferring energy into matter.
Scientists simulate an Earth without life to help hunt for aliens and inhabited worlds
By modeling how a planet without life develops its atmosphere, astronomers hope to be able to better distinguish rocky planets without life from those that are inhabited.
Scientists Identified a Biological Signature of Tinnitus, And It's in Your Blood
We finally have a clue.
Scientists Identified a Biological Signature of Tinnitus, And It's in Your Blood
We finally have a clue.
Scientists Found A Surprising Link Between Gut Bacteria & Bone Health
The bacteria in your gut could be part of a much bigger bone health story.
The Scientists Fighting to Help Wildfire Survivors Heal
A wildfire exposure study on Maui created a new blueprint for public health research and support after disasters—but funding was drying up. Could the organizers keep it afloat?
Why the simple flu shot could be a surprise weapon against cancer
Scientists are exploring whether the flu vaccine can disrupt tumors, providing another treatment along with expensive cutting-edge care. A small clinical trial offers hope.
Scientists finally see hydrogen hiding between metal atoms
University of Sydney researchers have directly observed hydrogen dissolved between metal atoms in alloys for the first time, using cryogenic atom probe tomography with deuterium substitution.
Scientists Finally Crack a 1,600-Year-Old Roman Glass Mystery
More than 1,600 years after the Romans created the famous Lycurgus Cup, a University of Sheffield technician has found a way to reliably reproduce its extraordinary color-changing glass. A glass cup made more than 1,600 years ago has puzzled historians and glassmakers for centuries. When light reflects off its surface, the cup appears jade green.
Scientists Find Two Giant Tears in Plate Under Iran, Likely to Merge
Researchers using 69 seismic stations found two giant tears in the Arabian Plate beneath southeastern Iran. Models suggest they will eventually join.
Scientists Discover Something Unexpected 90 Kilometers Beneath Earth
A rock from Papua New Guinea was hotter than expected during its descent into Earth, challenging models of a process that influences earthquakes, volcanoes, and climate. Earth recycles its own surface. In regions called subduction zones, one tectonic plate, a vast slab of Earth’s outer shell, sinks beneath another as the plates collide. These zones
Scientists identify a completely new type of rock in a Martian meteorite and find garnet on Mars for the first time, but its planetary origin remains unconfirmed
An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock on Mars and, for the first time, found the mineral garnet in a Martian sample. The discovery came from a fragment of the Martian meteorite NWA 8171, held in the Royal Ontario Museum’s collections, and was led by Tanya Kizovski of Brock University.
A nuclear blast could save Earth from an asteroid, but there's a catch
A nuclear explosion might save Earth from a deadly asteroid, but new research suggests that hitting the wrong side could make the difference between success and disaster. Scientists found that an asteroid's irregular shape can dramatically affect how it responds to an X-ray blast, with deflection effectiveness varying nearly fivefold depending on the angle.
MIT scientists turn immune cells into cancer killers inside the body
MIT scientists have developed nanoparticles that reprogram immune cells directly inside the body to attack cancer and harmful immune cells, eliminating tumors and reversing liver damage in mouse experiments. The breakthrough could make powerful immune therapies dramatically simpler and less expensive while opening new possibilities for treating cancer and autoimmune diseases.
A 24-hour fast triggers a surprising repair response in the gut
Scientists have discovered that fasting for just 24 hours increases a beneficial gut bacterium that helps the intestines regenerate after radiation damage. The preclinical findings could pave the way for new treatments that protect healthy tissue during cancer therapy, potentially without requiring patients to fast.
The hidden ways insects support animal life—from habitat to health—go way beyond being food
There are at least 14 million insect species on Earth, and they play highly diverse roles in sustaining the natural world. Insects provide many well-known benefits—what scientists often call "ecosystem ...
What Scientists Found When They Drug-Tested Ancient Hair
People may have been getting high off cannabis 2.8K years ago—300 years earlier than thought
Scientists Discover Two Enormous Tears in a Tectonic Plate Beneath Iran
The death throes of a vanishing ocean.
Scientists Discover Two Enormous Tears in a Tectonic Plate Beneath Iran
The death throes of a vanishing ocean.
Scientists discover new jellyfish species in waters off Alicante in Spain
The Mediterranean Sea still holds species unknown to science. One of them is Copula lucentia, a tiny jellyfish measuring just a few millimeters. Discovered off El Campello, in Alicante, it was formally ...
Scientists identify secret barrier protecting fruit flies from heat
As climate change brings hotter, drier conditions, scientists have revealed how fruit flies defend themselves against dehydration.
Scientists Say Marijuana Use Could Increase Heart Disease Risk by Up to 23%
And it’s not just smoking it that can cause issues.
The flu strain driving this season's unusually early spread
Scientists and healthcare professionals are keeping an eye on a mutated virus strain as flu season picks up early in the US.
Earth's rocks have a missing layer spanning up to a billion years. Scientists finally know what happened to it
The 'Great Unconformity' has puzzled scientists since its discovery in the 1870s
Scientists had people try a happiness trick—something unexpected happened
Professor Nicholas Coles wanted to investigate the impact of being forced to smile because of his experience in customer service.
A hidden limit of space and time could unlock electronics 100,000 times faster
Scientists have discovered a surprising quantum limit that prevents electrons from being tracked with unlimited precision in both space and time. The breakthrough could pave the way for manipulating chemical reactions and developing electronics hundreds of thousands of times faster than today's technology.
Scientists Develop Electronic Implant That Could Help Treat Type 2 Diabetes
Imagine managing type 2 diabetes without daily insulin injections, finger pricks or metabolic medication side effects – using an internal bioelectronic filter that quietly neutralizes excess glucose b...
Citizen Science Study Maps Palliative Care Access for Seriously Ill Homeless People
Researchers and citizen scientists in Germany have developed a Theory of Change framework to address systemic barriers and improve palliative care access for people experiencing homelessness and serious illness.
Scientists discovered an unknown baby right whale off Canada. They say it's a cause for joy
It would seem difficult to miss a 15,000-pound (6,804-kilogram) baby, but for months scientists who study rare whales did just that, and now they couldn't be happier.