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Planets aplenty may lurk around supermassive black holes

Fri, 06/05/2026 - 6:45am

Planets might exist in the least likely place you’d imagine—around the outskirts of supermassive black holes

Categories: Astronomy

How breast cancer screening can predict heart disease risk

Fri, 06/05/2026 - 6:45am

AI analysis of mammograms could provide a “bonus finding” for heart disease

Categories: Astronomy

PCOS is now PMOS: What went behind renaming the common condition

Fri, 06/05/2026 - 6:00am

A physician involved in the long push to change the name PCOS to PMOS takes us behind the scenes of this subtle yet consequential change

Categories: Astronomy

Trump invokes Defense Production Act to keep U.S. coal plants running

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 5:30pm

Coal is the most significant fossil fuel contributor to climate change

Categories: Astronomy

Remote work is making Americans lonelier and sadder, new study suggests

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 2:30pm

Remote and hybrid work can have benefits, but a study involving more than 588,000 people suggest they may take a serious mental toll

Categories: Astronomy

Bumblebees use tools to solve complex problems—despite not being trained to do so

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 2:00pm

Bumblebees appear to be capable of coming up with creative solutions to new problems to get a sugary reward—and their strategies include cheating

Categories: Astronomy

The Laetoli Footprints—the oldest hominin footprints ever found—are at risk of destruction

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 1:45pm

A new investigation alleges that official organizations in Tanzania have imperiled the country's artifacts and remains at four critical human heritage sites they were supposed to protect

Categories: Astronomy

A flesh-eating New World screwworm was just found in a Texas cow—here’s what to know

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 12:45pm

This marks the first case of the New World screwworm in U.S. livestock since the parasite was eliminated in the country in the 1960s

Categories: Astronomy

Astronomers just solved a 50-year-old mystery about the Milky Way’s black hole

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 11:00am

A breeze is emanating from Sagittarius A* at the heart of our galaxy

Categories: Astronomy

Did we just see a primordial black hole at the Milky Way’s edge?

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 10:15am

A blip of light in the outer reaches of the Milky Way might be a bizarre black hole born at the beginning of time itself—and the long-sought solution to the mystery of dark matter. Astronomers are calling it “Phoebe”

Categories: Astronomy

Humans conquered the planet 300 times faster than genetic evolution can explain

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 6:45am

Culture is humanity’s secret for world domination. This calculation shows just how powerful it is

Categories: Astronomy

Search for alien technology on interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS comes up empty

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 6:00am

Even though astronomers didn’t detect alien tech signals from a rare interstellar visitor, the results are worthwhile, they say

Categories: Astronomy

White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires

Wed, 06/03/2026 - 9:00pm

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

Categories: Astronomy

Scientists just built a powerful AI computer worm that learns as it spreads

Wed, 06/03/2026 - 12:49pm

This prototype could help the world prepare for AI malware threats, according to the researchers who made it

Categories: Astronomy

Landmark pancreatic cancer treatment paves way for targeting other tricky tumors

Wed, 06/03/2026 - 11:10am

Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting optimism that other challenging tumors will be next

Categories: Astronomy

NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever

Wed, 06/03/2026 - 10:02am

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet

Categories: Astronomy

Edison may not have been the first to record the human voice, new evidence suggests

Wed, 06/03/2026 - 6:00am

Could a predecessor to the phonograph have appeared a century earlier?

Categories: Astronomy

The reason why elevators feel slow—and the surprising math behind everyday life

Wed, 06/03/2026 - 6:00am

From slow elevators to perfectly split pizza, math quietly explains the quirks of everyday life

Categories: Astronomy

Ötzi the murdered Iceman’s microbiome is still active

Wed, 06/03/2026 - 4:00am

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers identified yeasts in his gut microbiome that continue to be active—and they used it to make bread

Categories: Astronomy