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Astronomers Capture Cosmic Web in Staggering Detail
32+ min ago (164+ words) It's the most detailed map of our universe's architecture ever created 12: 00 PM CDT on May 13, 2026 The universe is unfathomably vast, but it's not just empty space. There's a superstructure spreading throughout it, composed of immense dark matter filaments and sheets…...
The Genetic Secrets of the Fruit Fly That Hunts Its Prey
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (276+ words) It's evolved far beyond a rotten apple 10: 00 AM CDT on May 13, 2026 In most fruit fly species, females lay eggs on rotting fruit, which hatch into tiny larvae inside the fruit and transform into the little telltale flies. But in a…...
How Trump's Science Cuts Threaten National Security
20+ hour, 1+ min ago (333+ words) Weak science leads to bad forecasting and poor decision making 6: 00 PM CDT on May 12, 2026 "The writing is on the wall, and it spells disaster for our scientific excellence," they continued. Forecasting systems are already suffering, points out Cardinale. Just take…...
Thousands of Scientists Sign Letter to Combat Science Board's Firing
20+ hour, 33+ min ago (212+ words) The signatories, including more than 35 Nobel laureates, decry the "alarming attack on the ability of the US to engage in basic and applied research" 5: 00 PM CDT on May 12, 2026 Under the Trump administration, the NSF, the National Institutes of Health, and…...
A Powerful New Tool to Find Alien Life
20+ hour, 48+ min ago (219+ words) Life leaves a pattern, not just a trace 4: 00 PM CDT on May 12, 2026 Fatty acids on Mars! Amino acids on asteroids! Complex carbon chains in interstellar clouds!" According to planetary scientists from the University of California, Riverside, the key to telling…...
Stare Into the Heart of an Ancient Iceberg
23+ hour, 59+ min ago (160+ words) The beauty of the blue ice belies a fragility exposed by human activity 1: 00 PM CDT on May 12, 2026 "This is a time that I can truly point to where that thing when awe happens and the vigilance of the sympathetic nervous…...
The Tonga Volcano Cleaned Up After Itself
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (169+ words) The blast scrubbed some of its own methane emissions from the atmosphere 6: 00 PM CDT on May 11, 2026 Of course, chlorine's activity in our atmosphere isn't limited to breaking down methane. As a major reactive component of the now-banned chlorofluorocarbons, chlorine ions…...
These Small Ants Act Like Cleaner Fish
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (213+ words) It's the first documented case of the behavior in ants 5: 00 PM CDT on May 11, 2026 Humans aren't alone in their penchant for warfare. Ants have been known to launch full-pitched battles against competing colonies, and even abscond with slaves to serve…...
Is This Why Science Advances One Funeral at a Time?
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (295+ words) As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work 4: 00 PM CDT on May 11, 2026 For centuries, science has been a top-heavy enterprise. A vanishingly small number of field-leading experts has the propensity to shape knowledge. They who win the Nobels. They who…...
The Healing Powers of an Accidentally Caught Jellyfish
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (332+ words) How jellyfish in bycatch yield collagen for skin care, drug capsules, and nutritional supplements 2: 00 PM CDT on May 11, 2026 Jellyfish haven't received much attention as bycatch. Yet, they're common victims of small-scale net fisheries. A study published today in Frontiers in…...