The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY We are getting closer to understanding when the strong nuclear force loosens its grip on the most basic constituents of matter, letting quarks and gluons inside particles abruptly turn into a hot particle soup. There is a special combination of temperature and pressure…
The growth spurt hints that the free-floating object evolves like a star, providing clues about rogue planets’ mysterious origins.
October 10, 2025 4 min read When Will the Leaves Turn? This Is How Scientists Find Peak Fall Colors If you want to know where the best leaf peeping will be this year, climate science and weather can provide the answer By Humberto Basilio edited by Andrea Thompson DenisTangneyJr/Getty Images Evan Fisher first fell in…
Hair growth improved substantially after 56 days of using the serum Tsong-Min Chang et al. 2025 A serum designed to reverse hair loss has shown promising results in less than two months. Based on plant extracts and cell-stimulating proteins, the topical treatment led to visible improvements in hair density compared with a placebo formula. Pattern…
Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed the region responsible for this sensory overlap in humans, a region called the insula, researchers report September 12 in Nature Communications. The findings…
October 10, 2025 5 min read Babies Are Born with High Levels of Alzheimer’s-Linked Proteins in Their Brains Researchers hope the finding could point to new therapeutic approaches for the disease By Robert Martone edited by Daisy Yuhas Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by certain key changes in the brain. Among them are the development of…
A model of Homo heidelbergensis, which might have been the direct ancestor of Homo sapiens WHPics / Alamy A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by mutations that made us more prone…
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October 7, 2025 3 min read 2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy and Clean Up the Environment Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and possibly deliver drugs to…
The Redwing glider during a test launch Teledyne Marine A small robot submarine is setting out to go around the world for the first time. Teledyne Marine and Rutgers University New Brunswick in New Jersey are launching an underwater glider called Redwing on its Sentinel Mission from Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts on 11 October. Researchers…
