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Could Earth have sent life to Jupiter's moon Europa?
Could Earth have seeded Jupiter's moon Europa with bacterial life, where it could have taken hold in Europa's ocean and perhaps evolved into something more? Tha...
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna could double as an asteroid scale
One of the hardest things to calculate for an asteroid is its mass—but it is such a critical feature. It determines how much of an impact it would have if it hi...
The best place to look for alien megastructures might be moon dust
Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempt...
Young coqui frogs 'play it safe' when disease strikes, study finds
For a frog no bigger than a fingernail, survival depends on how it spends every bit of energy. New research from the University of Florida shows that young frog...
World Cup Fever Study now open to all major smartwatches
At the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Bielefeld University is looking for fans of all national teams. The Football Fever Study uses smartwatch data to record...
Radiocarbon dating confirms 10,000 years of continuous human occupation in the Pyrenees
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have created an open database with 124 carbon-14-dated samples that have made it possible to constr...
Study tracks juvenile sturgeon from Ohio's first-ever reintroduction effort
A new telemetry study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences finds that the method used to raise juvenile lake sturgeon before stoc...
Young disk around WRAY 15-1880 may contain a primitive planetary system
Italian astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to perform polarimetric observations of the star WRAY 15-1880 and its young circumstellar disk. Res...
New alliance to protect Atlantic's leatherback turtles launched on World Sea Turtle Day
A newly established alliance, comprising leading researchers and conservation experts, has mobilized to safeguard the Atlantic Ocean's leatherback turtle popula...
New tool helps protect communities from flooding during rain-on-snow events and optimize reservoir management
While Reno families were celebrating the 1997 New Year, the Truckee River was surging into the city's downtown streets. A rainstorm was falling on the Sierra Ne...
Jury service boosts public trust in courts, but fewer Americans are serving
As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to fall, new research from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania finds...
New research suggests writing with AI demands more thought from students, not less
Writing with AI can look deceptively simple. Effortless, even. Type in a prompt and a polished paragraph appears in seconds. Tidy, confident, clean. But that ap...