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Multi-ton stone statues literally walked across Easter Island, according to new research that validates centuries-old Rapa Nui oral traditions. Binghamton University anthropologist Carl Lipo and colleague Terry Hunt studied over 900 moai, discovering that statues found along ancient roads have distinctly different features than their coastal counterparts. The inland moai sport rounded, D-shaped bases and lack the...
Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Bruce Cohen's research reveals that disrupted cellular energy production in brain cells may be the root cause of major mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Using stem cell technology...
MIT researchers discovered chemical fingerprints in ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii containing remnants of proto-Earth from 4.5 billion years ago. These samples show a unique potassium-40 deficit that survived...
Researchers from UC San Diego and University of Maryland discovered that roughly half of all satellite communications worldwide are transmitted without encryption, including military data, personal calls, and infrastructure...
NYU Abu Dhabi researchers developed SPIRAL, a flexible brain implant that delivers drugs to multiple brain regions simultaneously through spaced openings. The device causes no additional inflammation, making it safe for treating...
Microsoft is backing Terradot's groundbreaking carbon removal project in Brazil, where scientists are spreading finely milled basalt across 4,500 hectares of farmland to accelerate natural rock weathering that captures CO₂ from...
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UC Irvine researchers discovered that injecting older mice with a specific polyunsaturated fatty acid successfully reversed age-related vision decline, offering potential treatment for conditions like macular degeneration. The...
Earth's magnetic field has developed a massive weak spot over the South Atlantic Ocean that has expanded by nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014, with scientists discovering it's sprouting a new lobe toward...
Plummeting costs for diagnostic and DNA sequencing technologies have created an unprecedented amount of biological data, but scientists often lack the coding skills needed to analyze these complex datasets and must wait for...
Japanese researchers created supercharged vitamin K compounds that are three times more effective than natural vitamin K at helping the brain grow new neurons to replace those lost in diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's....
German researchers developed a revolutionary mini 3D printer that uses a salt-grain-sized lens on a fiber-optic tip to build living tissue directly inside the human body, potentially eliminating the need for tissue transplants....
Astronomers used gravitational lensing to discover a dark object one million times the Sun's mass, distorting light from a galaxy 10 billion light-years away. This confirms dark matter's clumpy distribution.
A 2002 fish kill of 78,000 salmon in California's Klamath River triggered a 20-year Indigenous campaign that culminated in 2024's historic dam removal, restoring salmon migration after 100 years.
Italian startup GEVI Wind secured $3.1 million in funding to mass-produce AI-powered vertical wind turbines that automatically adjust their blade angles every few milliseconds based on real-time wind data. These compact, quiet...
SpaceX's Starship successfully completed its 11th test flight Monday, traveling halfway around Earth while deploying mock satellites. This follows August's successful test, showing continued progress after earlier explosive...
University of York scientists propose that dark matter, which makes up 27% of the universe but has never been directly observed, could leave detectable red or blue "fingerprints" on starlight passing through it. This theoretical...
Australia's SABRE South experiment, beginning data collection next year in an underground gold mine, aims to verify Italy's controversial 1998 claim of detecting dark matter particles called WIMPs using sodium-iodide crystals....
Twenty-five years ago, immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi made a discovery that most of his peers thought was impossible: immune cells whose job wasn't to attack invaders, but to keep the peace. Sakaguchi had just won the 2025...
Rice University researchers developed a breakthrough catalyst that reduces iridium use in green hydrogen production by over 80% while maintaining industrial performance for 1,500 hours. This innovation addresses hydrogen's...
Scientists at the University of Osaka and Baylor College of Medicine successfully restored sperm production in genetically infertile mice using a groundbreaking mRNA therapy delivered through tiny fat particles called lipid...
Europe's electronic waste contains 1 million tons of critical raw materials annually, but only 54% is properly recycled while nearly half disappears into landfills or non-compliant channels. A new EU report reveals this "urban...
The James Webb Space Telescope discovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded into supernova SN 2025pht, located 38 million light-years away in galaxy NGC 1637. This rare observation helps explain why...
Scientists created a new form of ice called ice XXI by rapidly compressing water to extreme pressures at room temperature using the world's most powerful X-ray laser at the European XFEL facility. This discovery reveals that...
A photographer reverse-engineered a 1979 Chinon CM-4 film camera to understand analog photography mechanics before using expensive film. The analysis revealed how engineering and chemistry capture light through physical processes...