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June 24, 2026

New extinct family of giant wombat relatives discovered in Australian desert

Credit: Picture: Peter Schouten The unique remains of a prehistoric, giant wombat-like marsupial - Mukupirna nambensis - that was unearthed...

The magnetic history of ice

The findings could help us understand the history of other bodies in our solar systemCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science The...

Development of a small sensor capable of continuously monitoring the phytohormone ethylene

Technology may allow optimal transportation and storage of fruits and vegetables, reducing food wasteCredit: NIMS NIMS and AIST have developed...

Spraying ethanol to nanofiber masks makes them reusable

Credit: Hyung Joon Cha (POSTECH) As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, masks have become an essential personal hygiene...

Native Amazonians, Americans and monkeys show similar thinking patterns

The neural computations of human and non-human primates shed new light on the evolution of languageCredit: Photo courtesy of Stephen...

NUS research team develops portable COVID-19 diagnostic system for rapid on-site testing

With Epidax, COVID-19 testing can be done at the point of care, and diagnosis -- from sample collection to result...

Sanford Burnham Prebys enters research agreement with Lilly for COVID-19 antibody research

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute today announced a research agreement with Eli...

UNC researcher leads national survey on mental health impact of COVID-19 pandemic

Olafur Palsson, PsyD, professor of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine, led a study investigating the emotional and mental...

First measurement of spin-orbit alignment on planet Beta Pictoris b

Credit: Stefan Kraus Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet, demonstrating a technique...

Researchers print, tune graphene sensors to monitor food freshness, safety

Credit: mage courtesy of Jonathan Claussen/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Researchers dipped their new, printed sensors into tuna broth...

New solar forecasting model performs best

Credit: Joakim Munkhammar A new mathematical model for predicting variations in solar irradiance has been developed at Uppsala University. It...

Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light

Peer-reviewed | experimental study | peopleCredit: UCL Staring at a deep red light for three minutes a day can significantly...

Agricultural fires in central Africa light up in Suomi NPP satellite image

Credit: NASA image courtesy Worldview Earth Data operated by the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System...

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite analyzes Saharan dust aerosol blanket

Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA, Colin Seftor Dust storms from Africa's Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but...

Analyzing matter’s building blocks

JSA/Jefferson Lab's Nathan Isgur Fellow in Nuclear Theory, Nobuo Sato, is developing a 'FemtoAnalyzer' with a new grant from the...

Ancient Maya reservoirs contained toxic pollution

Mercury, algae made water undrinkable in heart of cityCredit: David Lentz/UC Reservoirs in the heart of an ancient Maya city...

FSU News: MagLab geochemists solve mystery of Earth’s vanishing crust

Credit: Caroline McNiel/National MagLab TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Thank goodness for the Earth's crust: It is, after all, that solid, outermost...

1/3 of parents in 3 states may not send children to school because of COVID-19

Parents in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois varied in their support for risk-reduction measures like random COVID-19 testing and face mask...

Brazilian startup seeks to develop a wholly indigenous COVID-19 diagnostic test

The project is supported by FAPESP's Innovative Research in Small Business Program. The firm plans to produce ELISA kits that...

Early-onset colorectal cancer study in young adult men reveals ‘hotspots’ of death in US