When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away from their companion. The stolen matter builds up on the surface of the white dwarf, triggering ...
Astronomy
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The moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the origins of these differences have long puzzled scientists.
Planetary Sciences
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In the early 2000s, golden eagles soared once again over the hills of Donegal in northwest Ireland, for the first time in nearly a century. Their return was celebrated as a landmark in Irish conservation, a hopeful sign that ...
Ecology
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During my adult life, I have never experienced what it's like to live in a "good" economy. Starting with the global financial crash in 2008, which hit just as I began studying economics, the world seems to have lurched from ...
Economics & Business
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The world experienced more than 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a "historically high" number according to scholars in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Consequently, the risks faced by multinational ...
Economics & Business
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Human-induced climate change may have intensified the European heat wave between 23 June and 2 July 2025, and increased the number of heat-related deaths, according to a new rapid analysis.
Environment
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At the year's halfway point, the National Interagency Fire Center reported active fires in 10 states, marking the highest number of individual fires in a decade. Some of the more vulnerable homes lie at the intersection of ...
Earth Sciences
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Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel of the teeth of 18-million-year-old fossilized mammals from Kenya's Rift Valley, opening a window ...
Evolution
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A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from Eurasia.
Archaeology
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Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The question is why. New research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) provides the strongest evidence ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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