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A new study finds that global warming has accelerated since about 2015 to roughly 0.35 degrees Celsius per decade, nearly twice the average rate from 1970 to 2015. After accounting for natural variability, researchers reported more than 98% statistical confidence in the acceleration.
11:50 PMScienceDaily
Astronomers found that a 170-year-old wobble in a nearby two-star system comes from stellar activity, not a giant planet. Although Jupiter-sized planets have been ruled out in important regions, smaller worlds, including potentially habitable ones, could still orbit the system 16 light-years away.
11:17 PMScienceDaily
Researchers determined that three rare deep-sea fish resembling seahorses belong to a separate evolutionary group. Known from only seven specimens, the creatures have never been observed alive and appear to have evolved their unusual body shape independently.
10:07 PMScienceDaily
IEEE announced the retraction of roughly 1,400 conference papers in a single day after a study linked them to paper mills, commercial operations that produce fraudulent or manipulated research.
8:00 PMNature
The briefing examines the emerging field of pet longevity science and whether research could help extend the lives of dogs and other companion animals. It also considers whether a researcher is right to disregard student reviews.
8:00 PMNature
A study of thousands of palaeontology papers finds that fossils of dinosaurs, mammals and other visually appealing species appear disproportionately often in high-profile journals. The finding has prompted debate over whether publication patterns favor charismatic discoveries.
8:00 PMNature
A well-preserved tooth from a straight-tusked elephant, found in northern Israel alongside stone tools, dates to nearly 700,000 years ago. Its condition and setting point to a lush environment shared by enormous Ice Age elephants and early humans.
8:38 AMScienceDaily
Juno observations show that Jupiter’s magnetosphere deflects the solar wind through powerful plasma waves and multiple shock regions. The system differs substantially from Earth’s and offers a model for studying shock waves generated by exploding stars.
8:26 AMScienceDaily
Mathematicians argue that the standard framework for cosmic expansion contains an instability that could produce acceleration under Einstein’s original theory of gravity. Their proposal challenges the need for dark energy and questions the assumption that Earth occupies an entirely ordinary location in the universe.
8:07 AMScienceDaily
Ice recovered from a high Tibetan site may be more than 128,000 years old, preserving climate information from a period scientists thought had largely disappeared. The record could reveal how glaciers endured major shifts during the last ice age.
4:10 AMScienceDailySummary
A new study finds that global warming has accelerated since about 2015 to roughly 0.35 degrees Celsius per decade, nearly twice the average rate from 1970 to 2015. After accounting for natural variability, researchers reported more than 98% statistical confidence in the acceleration.
The decisive shift is not simply that temperatures are rising, but that the underlying rate
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A faster warming trend makes existing climate plans less adequate and increases the urgency of reducing emissions.
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Astronomers found that a 170-year-old wobble in a nearby two-star system comes from stellar activity, not a giant planet. Although Jupiter-sized planets have been ruled out in important regions, smaller worlds, including potentially habitable ones, could still orbit the system 16 light-years away.
Removing the false planetary signal clears the system of one misleading claim but leaves its
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A nearby system remains a promising target for finding small planets, but future detections will require more precise methods to distinguish them from stellar activity.
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Researchers determined that three rare deep-sea fish resembling seahorses belong to a separate evolutionary group. Known from only seven specimens, the creatures have never been observed alive and appear to have evolved their unusual body shape independently.
The decisive finding is that the seahorse-like form evolved more than once, rather than reflecting
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The discovery expands the known tree of fish evolution and shows how much deep-ocean life remains invisible to conventional observation.
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IEEE announced the retraction of roughly 1,400 conference papers in a single day after a study linked them to paper mills, commercial operations that produce fraudulent or manipulated research.
The scale of the purge indicates that paper-mill contamination has reached entire conference-paper collections, not
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A single-day purge of this size exposes how easily manufactured research can enter the scientific record and how costly correction becomes once it does.
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The briefing examines the emerging field of pet longevity science and whether research could help extend the lives of dogs and other companion animals. It also considers whether a researcher is right to disregard student reviews.
Pet longevity is moving from a niche concern toward a broader research question about how
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Research aimed at slowing aging in pets could reshape animal care while offering clues about which longevity interventions might work in humans.
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A study of thousands of palaeontology papers finds that fossils of dinosaurs, mammals and other visually appealing species appear disproportionately often in high-profile journals. The finding has prompted debate over whether publication patterns favor charismatic discoveries.
The study suggests that journal prominence reflects appeal as well as scientific value, giving research
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Publication bias could distort both the research agenda and the public picture of life’s history.
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A well-preserved tooth from a straight-tusked elephant, found in northern Israel alongside stone tools, dates to nearly 700,000 years ago. Its condition and setting point to a lush environment shared by enormous Ice Age elephants and early humans.
The tooth links human activity to a wetter, more productive landscape than the region’s modern
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The find expands the environmental range associated with early human settlement and helps reconstruct the ecosystems that supported it.
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Juno observations show that Jupiter’s magnetosphere deflects the solar wind through powerful plasma waves and multiple shock regions. The system differs substantially from Earth’s and offers a model for studying shock waves generated by exploding stars.
Jupiter’s protection from the solar wind is not a single boundary but a layered, dynamic
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The findings improve models of space weather at giant planets and of shock physics across the universe.
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Mathematicians argue that the standard framework for cosmic expansion contains an instability that could produce acceleration under Einstein’s original theory of gravity. Their proposal challenges the need for dark energy and questions the assumption that Earth occupies an entirely ordinary location in the universe.
The decisive shift is theoretical: accelerated expansion may emerge from gravity and the universe’s structure
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If confirmed, the proposal would replace a major component of modern cosmology with a different account of gravity and cosmic structure.
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Ice recovered from a high Tibetan site may be more than 128,000 years old, preserving climate information from a period scientists thought had largely disappeared. The record could reveal how glaciers endured major shifts during the last ice age.
The key change is the recovery of a potentially continuous climate archive from an era
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An older climate record would give scientists a rare benchmark for assessing how high-altitude ice responds to large environmental changes.
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