Earth Sciences 11 hours ago

East Asia's summer rain belt has shifted north over decades, reshaping rain and heat risks

A joint research team from KAIST and the APEC Climate Center has found that the East Asian summer front has migrated north over the past half century, with the shift exceeding 200 km (124 miles) in late summer. This raises ...

Plants & Animals Oct 22, 2026

Ants break a basic rule of biology to help them adapt to new environments

A new study led by researchers in the Eco-Evo-Devo lab at the University of Ottawa finds that ants can decouple antenna size from both head and body size as they develop into different social castes, revealing how social ...

Archaeology Oct 17, 2026

How one of Earth's worst volcanic disasters affected societies in prehistoric Japan

A new international study led by Lund University examines what happened to population levels after the Kikai-Akahoya volcanic eruption in prehistoric Japan. The results paint a more complex picture than what had previously ...

Molecular & Computational biology Oct 16, 2026

Machine learning analysis of gene regulation reveals new dimension of biological variability

Changes in our genes affect health risks from heart disease to cancer, but how those genes are turned on and off is just as crucial to health. What's more, almost all genes occur as two copies—one from each parent—that aren't ...

Earth Sciences Oct 22, 2026

Wildfires cause Amazon to emit 1.17 billion more metric tons of CO₂ than it absorbs

From 2010 to 2024, the Amazon rainforest—the largest tropical rainforest on the planet—released an average of 1.17 billion metric tons more carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere than it absorbed each year. Wildfires were ...

Astronomy 5 hours ago

Stellar collision may explain why Orion Nebula's planet-forming disks appear younger than its stars

The Orion Nebula is a large star-forming region visible to the naked eye. Some of the young stars in the nebula are surrounded by disks of gas and dust in which planets form. Radiation from the massive central star, 1 Ori ...

Archaeology Oct 20, 2026

Peat bogs, the natural archives of mining fallout, reveal ancient Europe's hidden metal networks

For thousands of years, humans shaped their world with stone, wood and bone. Metallurgy, the art and science of working with metals such as copper, bronze and iron, marked a turning point in human history. The mining that ...

Plants & Animals Oct 20, 2026

A century of records paints a worrying picture for Europe's bees

In most parts of Europe, bees have become less widespread during the last 100 years, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Condensed Matter Oct 22, 2026

Quantum interference traps electron waves in metal for first time

Ever since quantum mechanics first described particles, like electrons, as rippling waves, researchers have wondered if those waves could be trapped in place. Writing today in Science a century later, a team of Columbia University ...

Cell & Microbiology Oct 21, 2026

Scientists discover migration-mediated mechanism enabling bacteria-virus coexistence

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them—known as phages—coexist in soils, oceans and living organisms. Scientists have long thought this coexistence reflects a microscopic version of an evolutionary arms race: As parasites ...

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