What The Heck Are We Looking at? This Week's Monday Microscope Mystery
ScienceAlertby Fiona MacDonald5h ago
Happy Monday! To test your eyes and your science knowledge this week, we've got a fresh round of Microscope Mystery.
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top 22%AI Agents Don’t Need More Context — They Need Typed Context | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Emmimal P Alexander5h ago
TL;DR - Some AI agent bugs don’t start with a bad model. They start earlier, when instructions, evidence, memory, and tool output are flattened into ordinary strings before the prompt is built...
Too much or too little sleep may make your body age faster
ScienceDaily5h ago
Too much or too little sleep may make your body age faster - Date: - August 24, 2026 - Source: - Columbia University Irving Medical Center - Summary: - Both too little and too much sleep may be...
Recycling meat waste may help bring cultivated meat to market
Phys.orgby University5h ago
Recycling meat waste may help bring cultivated meat to market Researchers found microalgae can be grown using waste from cultivated meat production, then processed and fed back into the system...
'Perfect' workout formula can take just 10 minutes a day, Hilaria Baldwin says
FOX Newsby Angelica Stabile6h ago
Being motivated to work out is one thing, but staying committed to a routine is what yields results, experts say.
Making Better Rubies At Home
Hackadayby Maya Posch6h ago
Sapphires and rubies aren’t just pretty, they also got a range of practical uses. This makes it even more useful to be able to make them at home for obviously completely innocent experiments.
Screen time at ages 1 and 6 may matter more than parents realize
ScienceDaily6h ago
Screen time at ages 1 and 6 may matter more than parents realize - Date: - August 24, 2026 - Source: - Zhejiang University - Summary: - More screen time during infancy and around the start of...
China abruptly u-turns on rocket mission to find water on the moon
The Independentby Andrew Griffin7h ago
China has abruptly postponed its Chang'e-7 lunar mission, an ambitious plan to explore the Moon’s surface including a search for water rice.
Scientists just imaged the hidden quantum shape of a molecule
ScienceDaily7h ago
Scientists just imaged the hidden quantum shape of a molecule A new imaging breakthrough could let scientists watch a molecule’s quantum wavefunction change in 3D on femtosecond timescales.
The First-Ever Earthrise Photo Was Taken 60 Years Ago on a Film Camera by a Robot Spacecraft
PetaPixelby Matt Growcoot7h ago
60 years ago, a robotic spacecraft captured the first Earthrise photo — a stunning view that the Artemis II crew recreated earlier this year.
Meet Iris Shen, the 17-year-old Texas student who tested potential blood-cancer drugs in clams; one treatment behaved similarly to human-cell tests and her research won $150,000
Times of Indiaby TOI WORLD DESK8h ago
In what is dubbed America's longest-running and most distinguished science and math competition, a 17-year-old has won the third prize.
‘Cookies’ made from plastic may be on the menu for future astronauts
The Guardianby Hannah Devlin Science correspondent8h ago
Cookies produced from upcycled plastic may sound like something straight out of a dystopian sci-fi plot.
Burnham's Celestial Handbook: A Retrospective Review - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Mary Hrovat8h ago
by Mary Hrovat Burnham’s Celestial Handbook, by Robert Burnham, Jr., is a classic text. Its third and final volume was published in 1978.
Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News8h ago
As people age, many cognitive functions tend to decline. Brain scanning studies have revealed corresponding changes in the function of a brain network that is involved in many of these cognitive...
Motor neurons don’t just move muscles. They may direct that motion too
Science Newsby Yujia Huang8h ago
Motor neurons, the nerve cells that control muscles, have a reputation as passive messengers. But growing evidence suggests they do more than simply relay the brain’s commands.
NASA’s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universe
Wiredby Jay Bennett8h ago
Astronomers have known for decades that an invisible substance permeates the cosmos. Detected only by its gravitational influence on visible objects, dark matter accounts for some 85 percent of all...
Specialist ship arrives to cart SpaceX rocket from Christmas Island
ABC News Australiaby Alistair Bates and Mikki Cusack8h ago
In short: A semi-submersible cargo carrier has arrived at Christmas Island to retrieve SpaceX's Starship 40. The Forte began loading the enormous rocket directly from the water on Monday.
Scientists discover new 'immune hubs' in skull bone marrow
DW Englishby Richard Connor9h ago
The skull has traditionally been regarded largely as armor for the brain. New research from the United States suggests it may have another role: proactively helping to defend what lies beneath it.
Even meteorologists are baffled by the Midwestern tornado season
Gristby Matt Simon9h ago
Unprecedented. Record-breaking. Baffling. Experts are running out of ways to describe this year’s tornado season in the Midwest, which has unleashed more twisters on Illinois than any other place...
Amity University Launches Global Research Hub In New York To Strengthen India-US Research And Innovation
Free Press Journalby PTI9h ago
New York: Amity University has launched a research hub in New York aimed at fostering international research partnerships, and strengthening scientific collaboration and innovation between India...