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Fearful of AI-generated grant proposals, NIH limits scientists to six applications per year

Published: 2025-07-18 Read More

Some critics of the new policy say the cap could hinder researchers in need of funding

U.S. research community says new indirect cost model is still too complicated

Published: 2025-07-18 Read More

Proposed changes to avert huge cuts in reimbursement get pushback at town hall

Why do some moms have more boys than girls—or vice versa? New study provides clues

Published: 2025-07-18 Read More

Researchers find that certain genetic variants and mother’s age may have an impact on the sex of her children

A new kind of telescope is set to search for mysterious fast radio bursts

Published: 2025-07-18 Read More

Radio telescopes usually have giant dishes, but not these all-sky antenna arrays

Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants

Published: 2025-07-17 Read More

Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment

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UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

Published: 2025-07-21 Read More

UK officials fear their insistence on backdoor endangers tech deals with US.

It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says

Published: 2025-07-21 Read More

Judges pushed to bone up on AI or risk destroying their court’s authority.

X-Men at 25 is more relevant than ever

Published: 2025-07-20 Read More

“Mankind has always feared what it doesn’t understand.” Plus: our seven favorite scenes

Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

Published: 2025-07-20 Read More

Weather patterns that drive drought in the Southwest may persist for several decades.

RFK Jr. wants to change program that stopped vaccine makers from leaving US market

Published: 2025-07-19 Read More

RFK Jr. is targeting a little-known program that underpins childhood immunizations in the US.

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A strange fossil at the edge of the solar system just shook up Planet Nine theories

Published: 2025-07-20 Read More

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, this rare “sednoid” follows an unusual orbit that doesn’t match its known cousins—hinting at ancient celestial upheavals, and possibly even challenging the existence of the elusive Planet Nine. With a stable path lasting over 4 billion years, this cosmic time capsule opens a new window into our system’s chaotic youth.

Mysterious object found dancing with Neptune

Published: 2025-07-20 Read More

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre object in the outer solar system, 2020 VN40, that dances to Neptune’s gravitational beat in a never-before-seen rhythm. It’s the first of its kind, orbiting the Sun once for every ten orbits of Neptune, and could reshape how we understand the movement and evolution of distant cosmic bodies.

Astronomers just witnessed planets being born around a baby star 1300 light-years away

Published: 2025-07-20 Read More

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot minerals starting to solidify in the dusty disc surrounding a young star called HOPS-315, located 1300 light-years from Earth. These minerals mark the earliest seeds of planets, offering a stunning parallel to how Earth and the other planets in our Solar System likely formed. This breakthrough provides a rare opportunity to watch the process of planet birth unfold in real time.

NASA’s IXPE tracked a rare pulsar—and found an unexpected power source

Published: 2025-07-20 Read More

Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found that the radiation doesn’t come from the star s surrounding disk of gas, as previously believed, but from a wild and turbulent pulsar wind. This fast-moving stream of particles and magnetic energy slams into the disk, producing the X-rays scientists detected.

AI uncovers 86,000 hidden earthquakes beneath Yellowstone’s surface

Published: 2025-07-21 Read More

Beneath Yellowstone’s stunning surface lies a hyperactive seismic world, now better understood thanks to machine learning. Researchers have uncovered over 86,000 earthquakes—10 times more than previously known—revealing chaotic swarms moving along rough, young fault lines. With these new insights, we’re getting closer to decoding Earth’s volcanic heartbeat and improving how we predict and manage volcanic and geothermal hazards.