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11 September 2025NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return? - Ars Technica
“I have to look at dollars, and I have to look at time, and I have to look at return.”…
11 September 2025Astronomers Just Saw a Gamma-Ray Explosion Defy All Known Space Logic - ScienceAlert
A giant explosion that lit up the sky didn't just rock the cosmos – it absolutely rattled our understanding of the Universe's most powerful outbursts.
11 September 2025Why Not Have A Rod Of Teeth On Your Forehead For Sex Reasons? - Defector
If you are human, you might believe that teeth belong in the mouth. If you are a fish, you already know better. You know that teeth belong in the skin too. These teeth are fittingly called dermal denticles: skin teeth. (Mouth teeth are just called teeth, a te…
11 September 2025Dragon Is The Latest, And Final, Craft To Reboost ISS - Hackaday
The International Space Station has been in orbit around the Earth, at least in some form, since November of 1998 — but not without help. In the vacuum of space, an object in orbit can genera…
11 September 2025‘Ringing’ black hole backs Einstein and Hawking theories - CNN
Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
11 September 2025Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be turning bright green, surprising new photos reveal - Live Science
New photos captured during the recent "blood moon" total lunar eclipse show that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be turning green as it gets closer to the sun.
11 September 2025James Webb Space Telescope images enormous star shooting out twin jets 8 light-years long - Space
The beams hint at the true scale of the massive star that spawned them.
11 September 2025Discovery of new moon or ring system orbiting mysterious distant planet Quaoar - Phys.org
Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, icy, egg-shaped planet in the far reaches of our solar system, beyond Neptune, is already known to have two rings and a moon, but this d…
11 September 2025'New' island emerges from melting ice in Alaska - Live Science
NASA's Earth Observatory has announced that Alaska has a "brand new island" after a retreating glacier lost contact with the Prow Knob mountain landmass in Alsek Lake.
11 September 2025I saw the Andromeda galaxy from my city balcony! - Space
Here is everything I saw with a smart telescope in a light-polluted city including galaxies, nebulas and star clusters.
11 September 2025"433 Years of Power": NASA Tests Americium-241 Nuclear Batteries That Could Run Spacecraft for Multiple Centuries - Rude Baguette
NASA's pursuit of deeper space exploration has led to innovative developments in nuclear technology, particularly in the use of Radioisotope Thermoelectric
11 September 2025A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived - The Conversation
Researchers can study volcanic deposits at archaeological sites to piece together how ancient people responded to catastrophic events.
11 September 2025"Silicon Breached the Neon Layer": Chandra Observatory Reveals Massive Star's Violent Internal Collapse Before Supernova Explosion - Rude Baguette
For over two decades, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has trained its lens on the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant, a vibrant tapestry of cosmic
11 September 2025Dinosaur egg dated directly for the first time - Nature
Laser method could help to pinpoint the age of many fossils, but some palaeontologists say further research is needed to verify the technique.
11 September 2025Watch Russia launch 2.8 tons of cargo toward the ISS today - Space
The Progress spacecraft will arrive at the space station on Sept. 13.
11 September 2025Oddball Creature Has 229 Chromosome Pairs, a Record in The Animal Kingdom - ScienceAlert
An unassuming butterfly called the Atlas blue has been confirmed to have the greatest known number of chromosome pairs of any animal.
11 September 2025Starlink Photobombs New Satellite Image, This Time Over a Chinese Military Base - PCMag
While recording an image of Dingxin Airbase in China, Maxar Intelligence catches the Starlink satellite flying several kilometers below one of its own satellites.
10 September 2025Scientists found a 'geological heartbeat' that is forming a new ocean and splitting Africa in half - Earth.com
A rhythmic mantle plume, like a "geological heartbeat," was discovered beneath Ethiopia at the Afar Depression, ripping the continent apart.
10 September 2025China’s dual-use asteroid-collision research threatens satellites - Asia Times
China has unveiled its mission to impact a near-Earth asteroid by 2030, a decisive step towards establishing its planetary defense
10 September 2025Air Force test pilot picked to command year-long Mars simulation mission - Task & Purpose
An Air Force test pilot, a Space Force officer, and a Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot were named to the crew of a NASA Mars simulation mission.
10 September 2025Extraterrestrial life needs the right atmosphere. This planet 40 light-years away might fit the bill, scientists say. - NBC News
A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, raising the possibility that it could also have liquid water on its surface and could therefore support life
10 September 2025Scientists Unearth 80-Million-Year-Old Brazilian Sauropod Fossils Revealing Fatal Osteomyelitis Infection Killed Six Dinosaurs - Energy Reporters
In the arid landscapes of what is now Brazil, new findings shed light on the ancient lives of sauropod dinosaurs. These massive creatures, known for their
10 September 2025Electronics breakthrough means our devices may one day no longer emit waste heat, scientists say - Live Science
A new "optoexcitonic switch" already achieves state-of-the-art performance over current electronics and could serve as the basis for classical and quantum computing devices capable of operating at room temperature.
10 September 2025NASA Invites Media to View Artemis Moon Rocket, Spacecraft at Kennedy - NASA (.gov)
Media are invited to see NASA’s fully assembled Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in mid-October before its crewed test flight
10 September 2025Everything You Need To Know About The Girlboss Ants That Give Birth To Another Species In Order To Exploit Their Offspring (Slay Ant Queen!) - Defector
This month, there’s one story on everybody’s minds. I’m speaking, of course, about the Iberian harvester ant queens who can clone ants of an entirely different species to breed a subaltern army of hybrid ants whose only purpose is to serve them. If you, too, …
10 September 2025Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid. 'It was a genuine surprise!' - Space
"This forces us to rethink the starting conditions for our planet’s water system."
10 September 2025AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say - Nature
Representatives of four medical research centres have told Nature they have waived normal ethical review because 'synthetic' data do not contain real or traceable patient information.
10 September 2025Once-In-A-Decade Close Encounter With Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22 Approaches - IFLScience
The potentially hazardous asteroid, discovered earlier this year, will peak at magnitude 13.2 on its closest approach.
10 September 2025Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without making it worse? Only if we avoid the gravitational 'keyhole,' scientists say - Space
Depending on where you smack a planet-threatening asteroid, it might ricochet back to Earth.
10 September 2025An exploding black hole could reveal the foundations of the universe - Phys.org
Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at most—only once every 100,000 years. But new research published in Physical Review Letters by physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amh…
10 September 2025Iron-respiring microbes could have a role in sulfur cycling - Nature
A species of bacteria grows when both ferrihydrite and sulfide are present, but not when either is absent.
10 September 2025Scientists Uncover 44,000-Year-Old Well-Preserved Wolf in Siberian Permafrost - Indian Defence Review
A remarkable 44,000-year-old wolf found in Siberia’s permafrost is giving scientists unprecedented insights into the Ice Age’s top predators.
10 September 2025The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations - Nature
A rhynchocephalian skeleton around 3–7 million years older than the oldest currently known lepidosaur fossil provides important insight into the origin of lizards and snakes.
10 September 2025ABCA7 variants impact phosphatidylcholine and mitochondria in neurons - Nature
Loss-of-function variants of ABCA7, associated with Alzheimer’s disease, result in disrupted lipid metabolism, mitochondrial function, DNA repair and synaptic signalling pathways in the human brain.
10 September 2025Ancient DNA from Mexico's mammoths reveals unexpected — and unexplained — genetic mysteries - Live Science
Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.
10 September 2025Stabilizing effect of amino acids on protein and colloidal dispersions - Nature
Amino acids possess a new and broad colloidal property: they stabilize patchy nanoscale colloids, such as proteins, by adsorbing onto their surfaces through weak interactions.
10 September 2025The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs - Nature
The results from a state-of-the-art suite of hydrodynamical cosmological zoom-in simulations show how globular clusters naturally emerge in the Standard Cosmology and also reveal the existence of a new class of object called globular-cluster-like dwarfs.
10 September 2025Our Son Destroyed Our Neighbor’s Expensive Prized Possession. My Wife and I Disagree About Who Should Pay. - Slate
All I know is, I didn't break it.
10 September 2025Scientists find quasi-moon orbiting the Earth for the last 60 years—and it's not the first one - Phys.org
Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been well-aware of the moon, but it turns out Earth also has some frequent temporary companions. These "quasi-moons" are small asteroids that enter into a kind of resonance with Earth's orbit, although they aren't tech…
10 September 2025Microbe That Can Eat Mars Dust And Make Oxygen Could Be a Great Space Pet - ScienceAlert
Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists.
10 September 2025Giant DNA discovered in people's mouths could impact oral health, immunity and even cancer risk - Medical Xpress
Researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, have made a surprising discovery hiding in people's mouths: Inocles, giant DNA elements that had previously escaped detection. These appear to play a central role in helping bacteria adapt to the consta…
10 September 2025The crystallographer who solved a molecular mystery - Financial Times
A lecture by the pioneering scientist Kathleen Lonsdale has been chosen to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Institution’s discourses
10 September 2025Working on a 39-foot telescope dish photo of the day for Sept. 10, 2025 - Space
Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies.
10 September 2025Scientists Found “Sticky Goo” in a 2,500-Year-Old Jar—70 Years Later, New Analysis Finally Reveals What Was Inside - Indian Defence Review
A mysterious sticky substance found in ancient bronze jars baffled scientists for decades. Now, after 70 years and cutting-edge analysis, researchers have finally uncovered its true nature.
10 September 2025Don’t toss cannabis leaves. Scientists just found rare compounds inside - ScienceDaily
Scientists at Stellenbosch University have uncovered a rare class of plant compounds, flavoalkaloids, in Cannabis leaves for the first time. Using advanced two-dimensional chromatography and mass spectrometry, they identified 79 phenolic compounds across thre…
10 September 2025Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature
LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.
10 September 2025We've Just Listened In On One Of The World's Least Understood Mammals Like Never Before - IFLScience
Listening in on the deepest diving mammals on record isn't easy.
10 September 2025This Is the First Time Scientists Have Seen Decisionmaking in a Brain - WIRED
Twelve laboratories around the world have joined forces to map neuronal activity in a mouse’s brain as it makes decisions.
10 September 2025AI detects earthquake surge beneath Europe’s most dangerous volcano - Earth.com
AI has uncovered hidden earthquake swarms beneath Campi Flegrei, offering scientists sharper insight into Europe’s most dangerous volcano.
10 September 2025Is 'Oumuamua a piece of ancient solar system? Scientists think it came from 'exo-Pluto' - WION
'Oumuamua is most likely a piece of a body that resembles Pluto, and was flung out of the solar system when it was a chaotic place right after being born. The first interstellar visitor was observed in 2017, changing the dynamics and understanding of cosmic s…
10 September 2025NASA warns! 100-foot asteroid 2025 QV9 racing towards Earth at over 10,000 mph on September 10; should we - Times of India
Science News: NASA confirms that asteroid 2025 QV9 will fly by Earth on September 10. The asteroid is airplane-sized and travels at high speed. It will pass at a sa
10 September 2025Rocky Butte Preservation Society Will Throw a Free Concert Inside the Extinct Volcano’s Historic Tunnel - Willamette Week
Rocky Butte has long been the scene for some of modern Portland’s weirder aspects.