Animals Probably Arose 800 to 700 Million Years Ago, Long Before Their Oldest Fossils
Scientists have long disagreed over when the first animals appeared. A new study argues that a key fossil site was misre...
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People Bend the Facts to Suit Their Choices, and the Selfish Version Spreads Faster
In nine experiments with 8,769 adults, those who kept more for themselves played down the cost to others. When shown suc...
Snowball Earth's Cold Could Fake the Signs of Glacial Erosion, a Science Paper Argues
Geologists have argued that ancient ice sheets scraped 3 to 5 km off the continents. A Science paper says freezing the c...
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Waves, Not Just Tides, Decide Where Mangroves Can Take Root on Open Coasts
Where mangroves grow has mostly been explained by the tides. A Nature study of 400 coastal sites finds that on exposed s...
Antarctica's Net Ice Loss This Century Is Locked In, Even With Deep Emission Cuts
How much Antarctica will add to sea level is a major unknown. A new study finds its ice loss this century is very likely...
Butterfly Wing Stripes Create a Barber-Pole Illusion That Makes Them Hard to Catch
As the wings flap, their patterns send false motion signals about where the butterfly is heading. A Nature study backs i...
Bats First Took Flight in Europe, a Study of 103 Genomes and 44 Fossils Finds
The Bat1K analysis puts the bat ancestor in late-Palaeocene Europe and rejects African, Asian and North American origins...
A 120-Million-Year-Old Mammal From China Swam With Platypus Feet and a Coypu's Tail
Dongoconodon platycauda, found in Liaoning, had webbed feet for pushing and a flattened tail for steering, and it replac...
Gas Clouds Near Earth Glow in Gamma Rays, and China's LHAASO Used Them to Count Cosmic Rays
Charged particles from deep space cannot be traced to their sources, so astronomers study the interstellar matter they s...
Nature Says Academies Named Researchers Without Consent and Offered Others Paid Memberships
A Nature investigation links several grand-sounding societies to shared virtual mailboxes and one recurring name. One he...
Why Some Decades Have Slightly Longer Days: Gravity Inside Earth
Earth's day drifts by milliseconds over decades. A model in Nature says gravity pulling the inner core into line with th...
Thirteen Trapped Ions Simulated Particles Appearing From a Snapped String
A Duke-led team reproduced string breaking, a process from particle physics, on a trapped-ion machine. A classical compu...
Pompeii's Eruption Date Let Geologists Check Argon Dating, and It Was 0.4% Off
Pliny the Younger's account gave a known age to test against. Eight crystals from Vesuvius also yielded a sharper half-l...
Astronomers Find the First Planet Orbiting a Red Dwarf Backwards
Most planets orbit the way their star spins. GJ 3090 b, about 73 light-years away, goes the other way, and no companion...
Eight Years of Watching Decides What an Orangutan Eats
Researchers followed 21 wild Sumatran orangutans from birth to independence across 4,700 hours. Those that watched other...
The Brain Is Two Organs That Never Merged
One lineage builds the forebrain and midbrain, the other the hindbrain. Chromatin locks each in place, and the same divi...
A Nitrogen-Fixing Enzyme That Only Works Near the Boiling Point
It comes from an archaeon at deep-sea volcanic vents, it is the simplest structure of its kind yet imaged, and it does n...
Disorder Can Stabilise a Network. Identical Parts Can Break It.
Variation helps a grid, a swarm or a food web, but only when the individual units have enough behaviour of their own.
Roman Space Telescope Now Carries Fuel for 22 Years of a 10-Year Mission
A course correction cost a tenth of its propellant budget. What that buys is optionality, not an approved two decades of...
A Volcano Rose Four Millimetres and Only the Ground Sensors Saw It
Satellite radar could not resolve the signal. Stations bolted to the mountain since 2016 could, and they found the summi...
A Record Lunar Crater Sat in NASA's Data for Seventeen Months
No telescope caught the flash. The evidence was already in the archive, and the impact chilled a ring of ground twenty t...
The Youngest Planet Ever Found Was Sitting in a 2018 Archive
Nobody booked telescope time to find Elias 2-24 b. Someone went back to eight-year-old Keck data with better software, a...
Physicists Built a Muonium Beam to Test Whether Gravity Treats All Matter Alike
Muonium fired out of superfluid helium at 2,180 metres per second will let physicists drop a second-generation particle...
Paper2Agent Turned 74 of 100 Papers Into Working AI Agents
Paper2Agent reads a paper and its codebase and builds an MCP server other agents can call. The quarter that failed says...
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