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Space Exploration Oct 1, 2026

90-plus-day spaceflights linked to higher rates of hip fractures in astronauts

New research has found that the rate of hip fractures among astronauts after spaceflights lasting more than 90 days was higher than after shorter spaceflights or among people who were not astronauts. The findings of the study ...

Plants & Animals Sep 30, 2026

Wildlife tracking to fill gaps in monarch migration research

Every fall, monarch butterflies fuel up on nectar from Iowa's fall-blooming wildflowers before embarking on an extraordinary migration from North America to Mexico. But the pathways they take and how their travel is affected ...

Cell & Microbiology Sep 30, 2026

AI scientist autonomously generates and validates new biological discoveries

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an AI scientist capable of generating scientific hypotheses, designing experiments and interpreting results. Making new biological discoveries with ...

Plants & Animals Sep 30, 2026

How New World blackbirds conquered the Americas

Where did the roughly 100 species of New World blackbirds alive today originate, and how did they spread across the Americas? Dr. Axel Arango Garcia and professor Chaitanya S. Gokhale from the Chair for Computational and ...

Social Sciences Sep 30, 2026

AI-enhanced petitions on Change.org: More text, less success

The change was obvious—but in the end, things stayed about the same. Cornell researchers took advantage of online petition website Change.org's gradual rollout of an artificial intelligence writing tool to gauge AI-enhanced ...

Earth Sciences Sep 30, 2026

Antarctica's ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won't save it—low‑lying coastal areas elsewhere to suffer

Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities around the world. Today, about 1 billion people live in coastal areas; about 100 million live within ...

Environment Sep 30, 2026

Why the nor'easter's storm surge was so high, and what it says about the El Niño winter ahead

As a powerful nor'easter hit the U.S. Atlantic coast in late September 2026, the ocean poured into coastal neighborhoods from North Carolina to New York. Water from the storm surge and heavy rain filled streets and surrounded ...

Condensed Matter Sep 30, 2026

Zinc oxide quantum dots enable faster charge detection, laying groundwork for spin qubits

Researchers at Tohoku University, in collaboration with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the University of Tokyo, have taken an important step toward semiconductor quantum computing using zinc oxide ...

Astrobiology Sep 30, 2026

Earth and Mars: Built from different cosmic recipes

Four and a half billion years ago, Earth and Mars were born in the rotating cloud of gas and dust that would eventually become our solar system. Yet exactly how the planets formed remains one of the most disputed questions ...

Plants & Animals Sep 30, 2026

Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators

A bird attacking a butterfly will often find its beak snapping at thin air. According to new research, that split-second miss isn't just bad luck. It's caused by a visual illusion from the butterfly's wings.

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