Climate change could connect isolated patches of suitable habitat and help South African gemsbok spread farther across the American Southwest by 2100
A moon around young Venus could have survived for 4.5 billion years—or spiraled into the planet in less than a million, depending on how fast Venus spun
11.3 trillion tonnes of ice vanished from Greenland and Antarctica from 1979 to 2023, with glaciers and ice streams driving 84% of the loss
Graphene’s light-dressed electrons develop Berry curvature that lets an all-optical Hall current reverse direction, while changing the probe polarization suppresses the response by nearly two orders of magnitude
White matter tracts that span more of the brain’s hierarchy connect more biologically different regions and support a wider range of cognitive functions
Supermassive stars weighing up to 900,000 Suns collapse into heavy black-hole seeds that rapidly grow to 30 million solar masses in the early universe
Mulberry’s effects on the gut can change dramatically with the species, plant part and processing method, from different microbes and short-chain fatty acids to altered intestinal barrier function
Vaccenic acid from bacterial lipids binds LRH-1 directly, lowering blood glucose and improving fatty liver measures in obese mice
Two entangled Lambda baryons turned a difficult weak decay into a multidimensional probe of quark mixing, yielding a new |Vᵤₛ| measurement and the first weak-electricity result for the decay
Cooling and increasing the magnetic field send K2Cr3As3 through three superconducting states, from a helical point-node phase to a chiral point-node phase and finally a line-node phase
Single strontium atoms survived 11.5 milliseconds in room-temperature circular Rydberg states—21 times longer than in free space
Tiny diamond sensors detected the heart’s faint magnetic field from about a centimeter away, but only after thousands of heartbeats were averaged to separate the signal from noise
Current quantum processors can run circuits rated at hundreds to about 1,500 QUOPS, but proposed RSA-2048 factoring and FeMoco simulations require roughly 250 million to 340 million—leaving a gap of about five orders of magnitude
Muonium atoms emerge from superfluid helium at about 2,180 meters per second in a tightly directed beam that could make precision gravity and spectroscopy experiments far more practical
One lead projectile fired at ancient Hippos was inscribed with “Learn your lesson!” and still bears the scar of impact
More than 950 Iron Age objects buried near a British power center include parts from at least seven substantial four-wheeled wagons
Around 75,000 years ago, harsh Ice Age conditions pushed Neanderthals into southwestern Europe, where a surviving lineage later spread across the continent
A 125,000-year-old wooden spear lodged between an elephant’s ribs now sits alongside cut marks showing Neanderthals killed and butchered the 3,500-kilogram animal at a German lakeshore
More than 700 kilometers from Colombia, emeralds reached elite Panamanian tombs after passing through an unknown chain of communities
2,600-year-old structure lies 3 to 6 meters beneath ancient Egypt’s Buto, where scans found mudbrick walls and religious artifacts
