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Cosmologist Katherine Freese says a handful of ultra-bright, high-redshift JWST objects could be primordial stars fueled by dark matter…
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“webb might've spotted dark stars powered by dark matter in the early universe. these could get to 1M solar masses and 1B solar brightness... fascinating stuff.”— astra99.bsky.social · full quotes → 3 sources
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A Bluesky post about orcas' non-lethal history with humans draws thousands of theories — and pushback citing SeaWorld's Tilikum.
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“On February 24, 2010, a captive orca named Tilikum fatally attacked and drowned his experienced trainer, Dawn Brancheau, at SeaWorld Orlando”— siruilin.bsky.social · full quotes → 1 source
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A newly reported bat betacoronavirus carrying a furin cleavage site is being read as fresh evidence against the lab-leak hypothesis…
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“There was never any evidence of a #COVID lab accident.”— limelightonyou.bsky.social, Bluesky commenter · Bluesky · full quotes → 1 source
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Bistrifluron, a chitin synthesis inhibitor, eliminates drywood termites by disrupting their molt cycle without harming humans.
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“Once the termites reach a certain stage, they have to molt. They cannot avoid that. With a lethal dose of this chemical, they'll try to shed their old…”— Dong-Hwan Choe · full quotes → 3 sources
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A review of World Values Survey data (2005-2022) argues that WEIRD student samples don't generalize to the rest of the world.
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“Psychological research often relies heavily on participants from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies.”— socialpsychology.org (syndicated PsyPost summary) · full quotes → 2 sources
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ESA/JAXA spacecraft's close September 2024 flyby caught a solar eruption hitting Mercury, offering insights into space weather threats to…
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“Mercury's magnetic field is weaker than Earth's, and its magnetosphere is much smaller than Earth's. SIXS's observations help us assess how destructive…”— Rami Vainio · full quotes → 2 sources
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Universities cite withheld grants and regulatory uncertainty for second consecutive year of declining doctoral enrollment.
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“When institutions cannot trust that promised money will arrive and stay, they do not just decline to finish projects. They decline to begin them.”— E. Gordon Gee · full quotes → 1 source
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Researchers identified a star moving at unprecedented speed around the galaxy's central supermassive black hole.
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“Scientists have discovered the fastest known star in the Milky Way, zipping around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.”— Associated Press · full quotes → 3 sources
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The 250-km-wide body is the smallest object known to have rings, and observations show they're evolving.
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“Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing.”— Ars Technica · full quotes → 6 sources
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Genetic analysis of a rescued Bolivian kitten and 37 other tiger cats revealed a previously unrecognized feline species in the Yungas cloud…
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“Nunca esperamos que este gato tigre boliviano fuera una especie separada, y nadie lo había propuesto nunca como un animal diferente, subespecie o de otro tipo”— Jonas Lescroart, Evolutionary biologist, University of Antwerp · climatica.coop · full quotes → 3 sources
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Citizen science report documents massive mortality spike in dragons, pipefish, and seahorses during harmful algal outbreak.
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“Disturbing news about leafy sea dragons ...”— sandyhorne.bsky.social · full quotes → 4 sources
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Scientists discover Himalayan-scale mountain range hidden under Antarctic ice may have triggered complex life 600 million years ago.
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“It is unlikely to be a coincidence that Earth's…”— Chen and Campbell researchers · full quotes → 3 sources
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In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, the 3Blue1Brown creator proposes giving expository, intuition-building math work academic credit…
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“When proofs can be generated without that understanding, it undermines their value as a proxy.”— Grant Sanderson, Guest essay author, 3Blue1Brown creator · Hacker News · full quotes → 3 sources
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Researchers studying gravity around the massive crater hope Japan's MMX mission can determine Phobos' origin.
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“You would assume that such an impact would have shattered Phobos, unless it has a very low homogeneous density, like a sponge that can absorb that kind of…”— Benjamin Haser, Doctoral student in planetary science · ScienceDaily · full quotes → 3 sources
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Irish researchers publish a Nature study on a self-assembling DNA computer capable of 100-bit arithmetic powered only by chemical reactions.
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“The clever part is that the binding process is competitive: the DNA molecules compete with each other to select a winner, which succeeds in binding to the…”— Damien Woods, Professor of computer science, Maynooth University · Live Science · full quotes → 7 sources
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A researcher's essay arguing that open, reproducible software is inseparable from computational science gains fresh traction online.
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“Nice read: Science is open software”— marcoalopez@fediscience.org · full quotes → 3 sources
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A little-documented South American wildcat draws renewed attention through a widely shared photograph and a current-affairs explainer.
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“Tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo)”— animales.pro · full quotes → 2 sources
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Katmai National Park's annual tournament celebrating salmon-feasting bears grows larger as officials report more cubs than seen in recent…
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“A new generation of fat bears is taking shape, and they're off to a strong start.”— Mark Sturm · full quotes → 3 sources
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Five experimental impacts on Mars exposed new details about the planet's underground composition.
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“A smashing discovery.”— ScienceAlert · full quotes → 3 sources
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New Virginia Commonwealth University research finds anxiety over the 2,000+ anti-trans bills proposed since 2020 predicts psychological…
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“The 2,000+ anti-trans laws passed recently can cause trans people more psychological distress than personal experiences of discrimination, according to new…”— @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · full quotes → 3 sources
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Astronomers suspect the distant galaxy acquired its unusual dual rotation by consuming a smaller neighbor.
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“Scientists believe some type of collision caused these two spins. Gas from somewhere else could have fallen into the galaxy's gap, gathered at the center, and…”— Mashable · full quotes → 3 sources
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Study finds five underground explosions at Punggye-ri activated dormant fault lines, with seismic activity continuing years after testing…
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“North Korea's underground nuclear tests have triggered a chain of seismic events, activating ancient fault lines that stretch towards one of the most dangerous…”— SCMP/Science study reporting · full quotes → 5 sources
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Research shows forebrain and hindbrain arise from separate lineage-committed progenitor cells rather than a single common ancestor.
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“These dual progenitors may be evolutionarily conserved across 550 million years from hemichordates to mammals.”— Study authors · full quotes → 4 sources
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Researchers created and carbonized replica papyrus to develop methods for reading ancient scrolls buried by Vesuvius.
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“Douglas Seiler painstakingly sourced papyrus and reed pens from Egypt and traditional lampblack ink from Japan, then paid some high school students to inscribe…”— Phys.org · full quotes → 4 sources
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An adult humpback nicknamed Rio surfaced far from the Pacific, prompting monitoring by marine biologists.
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“I honestly, I didn’t believe it. I thought he had mistaken a dolphin or porpoise or whatever. I just didn’t believe him.”— Denny Glover, fisherman · NY Post · full quotes → 4 sources
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Astronomers analyzing 217 Little Red Dot objects find surrounding starlight suggesting they sit inside dense, star-forming galaxies.
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“We hadn't seen anything like LRDs in the local universe. This is a phase that we missed before.”— Jorge Zavala · full quotes → 3 sources
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Japan-led X-ray observatory captures first clear evidence of matter falling onto a neutron star from a nearby supergiant.
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“We've never before seen clear indications of wind plasma falling onto a compact object. We can now test our understanding of these processes in much greater…”— Roi Rahin, Lead researcher, UMBC/NASA Goddard · full quotes → 3 sources
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A rare bicephalic turtle hatchling discovered in Massachusetts joins only one other case in five years at the wildlife center.
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“We're looking forward to learning everything we can about these two young turtles. What I've heard from the vet team is that they are behaving normally, and…”— Zak Mertz · full quotes → 3 sources
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The distant galaxy's core rotates perpendicular to its disk, likely from past merger or external gas infusion.
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“Astronomers have found that the culprit likely lies outside the galaxy. If NGC 4698 funneled in gas from an outside source, the newly collected gas could have…”— NASA · full quotes → 2 sources
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A 2025 proof shows random regular graphs can be rigorously sandwiched between simpler random binomial graphs, unlocking easy proofs of…
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“The notion is so beautiful. What attracts me most is actually the beauty of it.”— Pu Gao, Mathematician, University of Waterloo · Quanta Magazine · full quotes → 3 sources
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Scientists discover a population of neurons with broad connectivity that appear to initiate sleep.
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“Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.”— Ars Technica · full quotes → 4 sources
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Tsinghua University researcher's microscopy video of airway cilia in a rare respiratory disorder takes the prize.
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“Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.”— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica science reporter · Mastodon · full quotes → 4 sources
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Survey of 4,266 British party members finds those high in narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy prefer leaders with the same traits…
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“Given that this is a British study, you've gotta realise that your democrats also fall into the side that the British define as right-leaning. What that does…”— Rusbekistan · full quotes → 3 sources
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NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day features composite images showing how different telescopes reveal new details about galactic structure…
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“Sometimes where Hubble finds darkness, Webb sees light.”— NASA APOD · NASA Science website · full quotes → 3 sources
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Scientists discover fossilized feather in coprolite, offering new insight into avian survival during the K-T extinction event.
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