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Is San Antonio's gut health boom backed by science or hype?

From kefir bars to a lupus breakthrough, San Antonio is having a gut health moment. Scientists explain what's evidence-based and what's not.

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Sep 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • sanantonioreport.org
Is San Antonio's gut health boom backed by science or hype?

From kefir bars to a lupus breakthrough, San Antonio is having a gut health moment. Scientists explain what's evidence-based and what's not.

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Sep 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • sanantonioreport.org
Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured

The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August. Scientists said the heat surge is mostly due to human-caused climate change.

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Sep 10 • 4:54 AM EDT • Science • npr.org
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Scientists and fishermen celebrate return of bluefin tuna

Marine biologists and fisherman reflect on the increasing numbers of bluefin tuna in UK waters.

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Sep 10 • 1:04 AM EDT • Science • bbc.com
Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists

Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans

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Sep 10 • 1:00 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
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Four Japanese scientists win prestigious U.S. Lasker Awards

One received the prize for his work on a sleep-regulating brain chemical, and a trio, for discovering an antibody therapy for hemophilia A patients.

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Sep 10 • 12:30 AM EDT • Science • japantimes.co.jp
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August was world's joint-hottest month on record, scientists say

The world just experienced its joint-hottest month since records began, with August pushing the planet's average global ‌temperature to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday.

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Sep 9 • 10:05 PM EDT • Science • reuters.com
Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth’s hottest month they’ve measured.

The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August.

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Sep 9 • 10:01 PM EDT • Science • seattletimes.com
Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.

The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August

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Sep 9 • 10:00 PM EDT • Science • abcnews.com
Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.

The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August.

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Sep 9 • 10:00 PM EDT • Science • clickorlando.com
Polarized trust in scientists driven by values, identity and politics

Trust in scientists in the UK is strong overall, with 63% indicating they have high trust in scientists in general—but a major new study finds this trust is closely shaped by people's values, identity ...

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Sep 9 • 8:20 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
Polarized trust in scientists driven by values, identity and politics

Trust in scientists in the UK is strong overall, with 63% indicating they have high trust in scientists in general—but a major new study finds this trust is closely shaped by people's values, identity ...

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Sep 9 • 8:20 PM EDT • Politics • phys.org
VIDEO: Inside an AI-powered lab trying to replace scientists

The Bulletin goes inside the lab to see how it works and ask whether AI can do science without scientists.

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Sep 9 • 6:22 PM EDT • Science • thebulletin.org
MSU poultry scientists recognized with early career awards

Li Zhang and Timothy Bolz are honored by the Poultry Science Association.

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Sep 9 • 6:08 PM EDT • Science • wattagnet.com
Denver scientists discover first adult T. rex trackway

A T. rex went for a walk 66 million years ago. Denver scientists just found the footprints.

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Sep 9 • 5:43 PM EDT • Science • axios.com
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GRI “Your Wondrous Works” Conference Presents Science To Buttress the Bible

Adventist scientists gathered for the Geoscience Research Institute conference and tension again emerged between science and the Adventist understanding of creation. What happens when the search for evidence to support Adventism’s understanding remains inconclusive?

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Sep 9 • 5:22 PM EDT • Science • spectrummagazine.org
Scientists Rebooted This Forgotten Battery—and It Recharges in Seconds. This Could Be the Future of Energy.

They last more than 12,000 charge cycles—and could be the solution for power-hungry data centers.

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Sep 9 • 4:35 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
The Democracy We Must Protect Together

It can be difficult to grasp authoritarianism because it rarely arrives all at once. Instead, it often emerges through a series of actions that may seem disconnected on the surface: attacks on scientists who tell inconvenient truths, efforts to restrict voting access, attempts to punish nonprofit

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Sep 9 • 4:30 PM EDT • Science • blog.ucs.org
Scientists Made Ice Stay Solid Above 2,000°C. The 'Superionic Ice' Could Be Found Inside Uranus and Neptune

The researchers squeezed water to millions of atmospheres and discovered a bizarre new form of ice.

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Sep 9 • 3:56 PM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Local scientists air concerns about federal funding losses in Arlington town hall

Researchers at a Massachusetts science town hall said funding instability is pushing scientists out of academia and threatening the pipeline that feeds the state’s research and technological economy

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Sep 9 • 3:38 PM EDT • Science • cambridgeday.com
Concerned Scientists Air Their Concerns to Rep Clark

Researchers at a Massachusetts science town hall said funding instability is pushing scientists out of academia and threatening the pipeline that feeds the state’s research and technological economy

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Sep 9 • 3:38 PM EDT • Science • cambridgeday.com
Scientists really love to reference The Beatles in their work

New study detects 3,200 references to Beatles song titles and lyrics in academic papers.

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Sep 9 • 3:31 PM EDT • Science • arstechnica.com
UGA’s Buell Grows Discovery and the Next Generation of Scientists

Not the Plan but the Right Path

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Sep 9 • 2:41 PM EDT • Science • sponsored.chronicle.com
NASA’s Chandra Unveils Mysterious X-Ray Objects

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before. Astronomers suggest these

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Sep 9 • 2:11 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in Really Old Teeth

A hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia as early as 25,000 years ago may have regularly sucked on betel nuts to release their psychoactive properties.

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Sep 9 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
UMD researchers explain the science behind why leaves change color

Scientists say tracking pigment levels can show how trees respond to weather patterns

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Sep 9 • 1:50 PM EDT • Science • northernnewsnow.com
FSU computer scientist earns NSF CAREER Award for data compression research

A Florida State University computer scientist has earned one of the most prestigious awards available to early career faculty for developing

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Sep 9 • 1:01 PM EDT • Science • news.fsu.edu
Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Takes Aim at One of Genetics’ Biggest Problems

Google DeepMind has released a huge new dataset that could make it easier for scientists to study how changes in our DNA affect the way the body works. Called AlphaGenome Atlas, it contains predictions for more than 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome. The dataset is about one petabyte in size and […]

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Sep 9 • 12:03 PM EDT • Science • hpcwire.com
How 'parachute science' is failing the world's tropical insects

Monash University scientists have developed a global framework to tackle a major blind spot in biodiversity conservation: Insects underpin ecosystems and food production but remain largely invisible to ...

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Sep 9 • 10:40 AM EDT • Science • phys.org
In 1971, researchers moved 10 wall lizards onto a small Croatian island — 36 years later, their descendants had stronger bites and a plant-heavy diet, with valves in their intestines that the scientists could not find in the population on their original island.

Ten transplanted wall lizards founded a population with a different diet, stronger bites and distinctive gut anatomy. Follow-up studies examine the roles of plasticity and genetic change.

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Sep 9 • 10:30 AM EDT • Science • scienceblog.com
The moon may have formed in just 5 hours, new simulations suggest

Novel simulations, which reassessed the ancient collision between Earth and the protoplanet Theia, suggest that the moon could have emerged from the aftermath of this impact much more quickly than scientists previously thought.

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Sep 9 • 10:08 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Why Don’t People Trust Scientists? Turns Out, It’s Not About Expertise

A new U.K. study finds trust in scientists is driven less by expertise and more by shared values and political identity, echoing seen in science in the US.

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Sep 9 • 9:49 AM EDT • Science • forbes.com
Will it kill off humanity? Computer scientists and politicians wrestle with risks of AI

Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence

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Sep 9 • 9:46 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
Will it kill off humanity? Computer scientists and politicians wrestle with risks of AI

Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence

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Sep 9 • 9:46 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Scientists Recreated Chirps of Jurassic Insects, Simulating a 165 Million-yo Soundscape (Listen)

It wasn't just the roars of the dinosaurs that made up the soundscape of the animal world during the Jurassic period.

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Sep 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • goodnewsnetwork.org
Scientists Turned Off Consciousness in Rats. Then Their Brains Started Going Wild.

Electrical activity that was fine-tuned in waking brains grew more chaotic under anesthesia.

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Sep 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
A photon from the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang appears to have defied Einstein. Scientists may finally know how

"We started from a very simple question: how did this photon survive a journey that, according to known physics, should have destroyed it?"

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Sep 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • space.com
Beneath a field of loose rubble on Utah’s Mount Timpanogos, scientists mapped a hidden mass of ice up to 150 feet thick — enough frozen water to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools

Massive ice deposits hidden beneath Utah mountain rubble could reshape understanding of water resources and climate patterns in the American West.

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Sep 9 • 8:45 AM EDT • Science • scienceblog.com
Scientists Say They Can Now Pinpoint Where Big Quakes Might Hit

A GPS-based algorithm is used to identify where stress has been building up.

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Sep 9 • 8:20 AM EDT • Science • gizmodo.com
Scientists Who Study Sleep and Narcolepsy Win Prestigious Lasker Award

The two researchers have won a prestigious Lasker Award. Their findings laid the groundwork for a new drug that addresses the sleep disorder’s root cause.

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Sep 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
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🔬 Know a scientist whose sustained service to ASBMB and professional accomplishments have advanced the molecular biosciences? Consider nominating them as an ASBMB Fellow.

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Sep 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • asbmb.org
Scientists find a bone-building switch that could fight osteoporosis

An experimental compound called AP503 significantly strengthened bones in mice by activating GPR133, a receptor that boosts bone formation while slowing bone loss. Because the same treatment has also been linked to stronger muscles, researchers see intriguing potential for combating age-related decline and osteoporosis.

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Sep 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Scientists in Switzerland made a sponge from cheesemaking waste that captures gold from discarded electronics — after dissolving metal parts from 20 old computer motherboards, they recovered enough to melt into a 22-carat gold nugget

A Swiss lab transformed dairy waste into a gold-recovery tool, extracting precious metal from e-waste that most recyclers leave behind.

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Sep 9 • 7:15 AM EDT • Science • scienceblog.com
Dutch scientists pipe office urine into bacteria-filled cells that generate electricity and recover nitrogen and phosphorus, while a related system can produce hydrogen

Pee breaks are one of the most relaxing times in the office when you finally get to have some sane moments to yourself. Which is why most employees take numerous such breaks within a day.

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Sep 9 • 6:15 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Cats want to talk to us. Scientists are trying to decipher the meow

Cats are conversationalists. Researchers suggest the meow has evolved over centuries as a tool to better communicate with humans.

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Sep 9 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • latimes.com
NASA Found Strange Holes on Mars. Scientists Aren't Sure What Made Them.

DRR…DRR…DRR

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Sep 9 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Slime mould has no brain, no neurons and no central control, yet when scientists placed food at 36 locations matching cities around Tokyo, it grew a network strikingly similar to the rail system — with comparable efficiency, cost and resilience

A single-celled organism with no brain solved a transportation puzzle that took human engineers decades to perfect.

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Sep 9 • 5:15 AM EDT • Science • scienceblog.com
Scientists and algorithms: Finding the right balance in modern drug development

The future of drug development is not scientists versus algorithms. It is scientists and algorithms working together.

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Sep 9 • 4:30 AM EDT • Science • pharmaphorum.com
Slime Molds and a double Ig Nobel Prize winner and a big, great science adventure

” ‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence — Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’…

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Sep 9 • 3:24 AM EDT • Science • improbable.com
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4995-5001: 5,000 (Martian) Days on Mars

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute

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Sep 9 • 2:20 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
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Signs of US-style polarisation in Britons’ trust in science

Sense of shared identity makes Greens’ faith in scientists stronger than Reform voters’, study finds

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Sep 9 • 2:00 AM EDT • Science • researchprofessionalnews.com
US Research Cuts Drive Scientists to Germany

US-based researchers are seeking academic asylum in Germany following the Trump administration’s funding cuts—a loss to American science.

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Sep 9 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • the-scientist.com
The public's trust in science and medicine

A recent survey of the public about their trust in science and medicine was reassuring: scientists and physicians are well-respected. But it also raised some concerns. The 2026 Edelman Trust

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Sep 8 • 10:30 PM EDT • Science • galvnews.com
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Scientists Had People Eat Tomato Paste For 3 Months. Their Brain Scans Looked Different.

It contains a powerful antioxidant.

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Sep 8 • 9:10 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Scientists in Chicago remotely controlled a wireless brain implant in South Korea over the internet

"The biggest challenge is demonstrating long-term safety and reliability in the human brain."

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Sep 8 • 8:13 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Have we found alien life? Hundreds of scientists weigh in

Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b probably represented extraterrestrial life, while 15.1% said the same about intriguing mineral patterns in a Martian rock.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Chinese scientists find a hidden atomic structure that unlocks methane

Scientists found that a tiny atomic structure that forms on nickel oxide during methane conversion is more effective than the metallic nickel long believed to drive the reaction. The discovery allowed a low-nickel catalyst to rival one containing 10 times more metal, potentially opening the door to cheaper and more efficient industrial catalysts.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
The science of sleep trackers on smart watches

In this segment, scientists are issuing a caution about sleep trackers featured on devices like Apple Watch.

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Sep 8 • 6:07 PM EDT • Science • wbay.com
Glendale Actress Finds Love of Science

A few years ago, Marilyn Heidecker was more likely to portray a criminalist on TV, film, or stage rather than work as an actual scientist who analyzes physical evidence in

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Sep 8 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • outlooknewspapers.com
Scientists engineer ready-to-use cancer-fighting T cells for solid tumors

T-cell receptor, or TCR, therapy is a cancer treatment that genetically reprograms immune cells, called T cells, to hunt down cancer with precision. It's similar to another treatment, CAR T-cell therapy, ...

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Sep 8 • 5:00 PM EDT • Science • medicalxpress.com
Years before Nepal floods, scientists pitched a seismic warning system

The scientists, who are based in Europe, say the system could have triggered lifesaving alerts before floodwaters hit in Nepal. But the concept is unproven in the field.

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Sep 8 • 3:43 PM EDT • Science • nbcnews.com
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At rally to save Academy of Natural Sciences museum, protesters urge Drexel to 'act like it's an emergency'

Local lawmakers and scientists outlined several options to preserve the museum, which is due to close Sept. 30.

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Sep 8 • 3:15 PM EDT • Science • phillyvoice.com
Mysterious elk deaths in Nevada could offer clues about health of herds across the West

An unusual pattern of springtime elk deaths for more than a decade in northern Nevada has scientists searching for answers. What they find could shed light on broader questions about wildlife health across the West.

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Sep 8 • 2:44 PM EDT • Health • aspenpublicradio.org
Mysterious elk deaths in Nevada could offer clues about health of herds across the West

An unusual pattern of springtime elk deaths for more than a decade in northern Nevada has scientists searching for answers. What they find could shed light on broader questions about wildlife health across the West.

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Sep 8 • 2:44 PM EDT • Health • kunr.org
This cosmic particle was never meant to reach Earth. Now, scientists think they finally know why it did

In 2022, researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way to Earth

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Sep 8 • 2:30 PM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com
Scientists Keep Finding the Same Mysterious Beat Across the Animal Kingdom, From Fireflies to Sea Lions

From fireflies to mammals, evolution may have tuned communication to the rhythm of neurons.

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Sep 8 • 2:22 PM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Scientists Discover Bacteria That Can Make Testosterone Near the Prostate, With Potential Implications for Cancer

A newly discovered bacterial pathway turns a common steroid precursor into testosterone.

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Sep 8 • 2:20 PM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Scientists Are Still Trying To Understand How the Moon Formed

The Earth and the Moon have nearly identical isotopic compositions, and the Giant Impact Hypothesis strives to explain this. New research into the ancient impact shows how the temperature of both worlds, and how it affects the strength of the materials involved in the collision, shaped the outcome, including the isotopic compositions.

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Sep 8 • 1:27 PM EDT • Science • universetoday.com
In 2018, scientists seeded clouds over China's Muz Taw Glacier to make snow; the brighter surface was followed by 14% to 17% less ice loss in a preliminary experiment

Researchers in China have tried to make artificial snow over China’s Muz Taw Glacier to slow its melting. The experiment conducted in 2018 involved seeding clouds with silver iodide, which helped trigger snowfall over the glacier.

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Sep 8 • 12:36 PM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Scientists Discover the 7 Stages a Meteoroid Goes Through Before Hitting Earth

An analysis of 75 meteorite falls identified seven distinct processes that occur as space rocks melt, break apart, and slow down before reaching the ground. A space rock entering Earth’s atmosphere does far more than simply “burn up.” By examining 75 meteorite falls recorded in videos and photographs, researchers identified seven distinct stages that shape

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Sep 8 • 12:13 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com
Scientists find a huge 10-sided pattern in the clouds over Saturn's south pole

Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn's south pole

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Sep 8 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • latimes.com
New-to-science Amazon frog stands out for its slow ‘lazy’ song

Scientists recently described a new species of a tiny brown frog found in the Amazonian floodplain forests of Ecuador and northwestern Brazil. It looks nearly identical to related species but its slow, widely spaced out call sets it apart, researchers note in a study. “I’ve had to get into arguments because people said the frog […]

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Sep 8 • 11:53 AM EDT • Science • news.mongabay.com
Scientists call for joint efforts to preserve nomadic heritage

At the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Cultural Heritage of the World’s Nomadic Peoples: Preservation, Study, and Development”, scholars and experts from 23 countries urged unified action to safeguard the cultural diversity of nomadic peoples and ensure traditions remain alive for future generations, Qazinform News Agency cites Kabar.

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Sep 8 • 11:41 AM EDT • Science • qazinform.com
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Current events: Scientists keep close eye on Atlantic Ocean changes

The year is 2060. London shudders through months of Nordic winter freezes. Across northern Europe, oak and beech forests wither under severe frost and drought, while cereal yields collapse from temperatures ...

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Sep 8 • 11:40 AM EDT • Science • phys.org
Scientists Are Making Concrete With Human Poop – And It Gets 42% Stronger

Wait, what?

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Sep 8 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
AZ's R&D chief Barr touts internal 'science success story' after IL-33 antibody's stellar showing in COPD

With a detailed data drop that AstraZeneca’s R&D chief described as an internal “science success story,” the British Big Pharma has secured an FDA priority review for what it believes could become a flagship biologic in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In detailed results from the late-stage Oberon and Titania trials—first teased in March and detailed in full at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Barcelona this week—the drugmaker laid out the extent of its IL-33 inhibitor’s potential to reduce moderate and severe exacerbations in a wide range of COPD patients still struggling with those “lung attacks,” as AstraZeneca’s Sharon Barr, Ph.D., called them, despite using standard-care inhaled therapy. In the headline results, a 300 mg dose of tozorakimab given once every four weeks curbed those moderate and severe exacerbations in the studies’ primary population of former smokers by 29% in the Oberon study and 34% in Titania. In the overall population of both current and former smokers, these reductions were 30% and 29%, respectively, versus placebo and inhaled standard of care. The benefits also extended to clinically meaningful exacerbation reductions in all prespecified patient subgroups and specifically turned up promising signals in patients across a range of blood eosinophil counts, with Barr telling Fierce that “it’s the details that make this even more exciting than the high-level results that we’ve already shared.” In fact, during AZ’s tozorakimab poster presentation at the ERS 2026 Congress this past weekend, attendees were so enamored by the data that event organizers had to encourage people to clear the room and look at the other presentations on offer, Barr said in an interview. “I think it really speaks to the fact that there is a lot of buzz around these data because the entire respiratory community has been so desperate for new therapies for these patients,” she explained. The respiratory disease continues to represent a “staggering unmet medical need,” Barr said, highlighting the COPD exacerbations that the Oberon and Titania studies homed in on, which she added carry a greater mortality risk than a heart attack. “When a patient has a severe exacerbation, only about half of them are still alive within three and a half years,” she pointed out. As for tozorakimab specifically, Barr christened the molecule “an AstraZeneca science success story,” harkening several years back to the point at which researchers began to explore IL-33 as a driver of respiratory disease, and COPD in particular. At the same time, “there was still so much that wasn’t understood,” she admitted, highlighting the insight that IL-33 signals through both ST2 and EGFR through the RAGE pathway, a discovery Barr attributed to AstraZeneca's own scientists. Understanding the need to tackle both pathways in COPD—and aware of competitor candidates in the hopper, including one that bound ST2—the company ultimately had to make some “courageous decisions,” Barr said. These included taking a prior COPD molecule offline and going back to the drawing board to reinvent its potential IL-33 label “to make sure that we had a molecule that could block signaling through both arms of the pathway, through both the reduced form and the oxidized form, knowing that we wouldn’t be first, but striving to be best.” “When we put [tozorakimab] into the clinic, we firmly believed that we had a differentiated molecule, and we saw the other molecules blocking just ST2 or partially blocking IL-33, unable to deliver two positive pivotal studies in COPD,” Barr explained. “We kept marching forward because we believed our molecule was differentiated, and now I think we have the clinical validation that supports that.” Ultimately, AstraZeneca finds itself on much better footing these days when it comes to potential biologic rivals to tozorakimab in COPD. Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent, for instance, is approved to treat COPD exacerbations in patients with high eosinophil counts, but not low ones. Meanwhile, the future has become cloudier for other next-gen IL-33 candidates from Sanofi and Regeneron, as well as Roche, which have suffered trial flops in recent years. One other potential ingredient for AstraZeneca’s success in its duo of studies was that the company was “ambitious in the trial design, willing to look at an all-comers population,” Barr said, “and willing to enroll the most severe patients.” Prior studies for would-be biologics rivals in COPD “avoided enrolling” those patients, she pointed out. She also highlighted the Big Pharma’s painstaking design of exacerbations in its trial, which “gave us a very rigorous readout,” and pointed to “the extra effort and investment” the company put in to understand the effect of mucus plugs in patients. Barr described mucus production as a “key feature in disease diversity,” noting that mucus plugs—obstructing clumps of mucus that block patients’ airways—are associated with worse outcomes in COPD. In its data announcement, AstraZeneca noted that an integrated analysis of Oberon and Titania found tozorakimab “demonstrated a reduction in patients’ mucus plug score,” with the pharma claiming its biologic is the first to deliver such results in a broad COPD population. “So being able to reduce those mucus plugs, we expect, is an important part of driving benefit for patients who are living with COPD,” Barr said. Again touching on the breadth of the study populations, Barr added that tozorakimab “worked across all eosinophil levels in both current and former smokers across all levels of lung function,” which she suggested “really simplifies decision-making for clinicians, and it allows them to offer therapy to the broadest possible patient population.” In the highest patient eosinophil count group, tozorakimab helped chart a 43% reduction in exacerbation risk, which Barr stressed were “unprecedented data.” In the mid-level group, AZ’s drug delivered a 23% reduction and, in the lowest group, a 34% reduction in eosinophils, which Barr said suggests efficacy “in all patient subgroups.” As for AZ’s recent guidance upgrade on the medicine’s sales opportunity, the lift from a $3 billion to $5 billion range to $5 billion plus was informed by multiple factors, Barr said, including the fact that “in 2024, there were multiple competitors, and there aren’t anymore.” Additionally, “we know that this is a massive unmet medical need, and this is a really incredible set of data that we think will be very convincing to the clinical community,” Barr said. Looking ahead to a potential evolution of the COPD treatment landscape, Barr noted that most patients start treatment in the community with an option like a triple therapy, and for them, having an option like AstraZeneca’s inhaler Breztri will remain a “really important part” of that journey. But of the patients uncontrolled on triple therapy, which Barr described as “about half of them today,” just a “small fraction” are currently eligible for biologic therapy, which she emphasized AstraZeneca is working to change. Understanding that COPD is not a “one-size-fits-all” disease, AstraZeneca is also looking at its antibody drug Tezspire for patients with T2-driven disease, and the company continues to think about new mechanisms for tackling COPD through both systemic and inhaled drugs, Barr said.

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Sep 8 • 10:50 AM EDT • Science • fiercebiotech.com
Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design

The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures

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Sep 8 • 9:33 AM EDT • Science • scienceandculture.com
Out at sea: York County teacher back at school after science mission with NOAA

Amber LaMonte spent 10 days at sea working as a scientist as part of NOAA’s Teacher at Sea program.

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Sep 8 • 9:13 AM EDT • Science • dailypress.com
Scientists confirm Newton’s gravity law

Gravity has survived its largest-scale test yet, holding up across distances of up to 230 megaparsecs, or about 750 million light-years. University of Pennsylvania physicists found that the force weakens with distance almost exactly as Newton’s equations predict, a relationship later incorporated into Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Galaxies and galaxy clusters move faster than...

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Sep 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • theticker.org
Scientists Uncover a Surprising Gut Connection in Fatal Asthma

The lungs may not be where a fatal asthma attack begins.

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Sep 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
‘Star Trek’ and NASA have intertwined legacies – the show championed diversity and inspired generations of real space scientists

60 years of ‘Star Trek’: A cultural anthropologist on how the show’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” conception helped shape NASA’s vision of the future.

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Sep 8 • 8:40 AM EDT • Science • theconversation.com
Assessing Kelp Bed Expansion Around Kodiak Island in Alaska - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

Scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Kasitsna Bay Laboratory joined a week-long mission to investigate the recent expansion of giant kelp forests in waters surrounding Kodiak Island, Alaska. Bull kelp, the predominant canopy kelp in the region, has been largely replaced by giant kelp in the last couple of decades. While both ... Read more

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Sep 8 • 8:39 AM EDT • Science • coastalscience.noaa.gov
Scientists Reversed a Law of Physics by Scrambling Cause and Effect

Indefinite causal order let physicists reverse a rule of nature, then confirm it with a split light beam.

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Sep 8 • 8:30 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
Scientists Just Filmed One of the Deep Sea’s Creepiest Creatures for the First Time in This Part of the Pacific

The rare Magnapinna squid was filmed 10,751 feet below the Pacific, marking its first confirmed sighting in the region.

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Sep 8 • 8:24 AM EDT • Science • vice.com
Frank Leibfarth wins 2027 Carl S. Marvel Award - College of Arts and Sciences

The award, given once every other year, recognizes outstanding accomplishments and unusual innovation in basic or applied polymer science by scientists early in their careers.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • college.unc.edu
Your personality may be more genetic than scientists realized

More than 1,200 genetic variants have been linked to the Big Five personality traits, and many of the same variants are also associated with health, longevity, careers, income, and everyday habits. The findings reveal a surprisingly wide genetic connection between personality and life outcomes while showing that environment still plays a powerful role.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Scientists discover a powerful new antivenom hidden in rattlesnake blood

Researchers discovered that combinations of toxin-blocking proteins naturally found in rattlesnake blood can powerfully neutralize venom from several dangerous snake species. In lab tests, the mixtures were about 10 times more potent than a current commercial antivenom, pointing toward a new generation of nature-inspired snakebite treatments.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Want a solution to plastic pollution? Scientists urge UN to require global reporting

Scientists in the U.S. and China urge the UN to mandate global reporting in its upcoming plastics treaty. They system they propose will inform a workshop in Geneva, Switzerland in mid-September.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • news.ucsb.edu
Scientists observe Einstein’s gravity in the quantum world for the first time

Physicists have directly observed a long-predicted quantum effect of gravity, putting one of Einstein’s foundational ideas to a striking new test. Using ultracold atoms, researchers split an atom’s quantum wave so that one part was held in place while the other fell freely under gravity, then reunited the two to measure the tiny difference that emerged.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
A young Tallahassee scientist's Alzheimer's research wins national acclaim

Lily Ma, senior at Tallahassee's Chiles High School, probed the possibility of using stem cells as a vehicle to slow or even halt the degenerative process.

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Sep 8 • 7:38 AM EDT • Science • wusf.org
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Do birds enjoy flying? Scientists asked cockatoos

Flying leads to positive emotions and optimism in Galahs

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Sep 8 • 6:45 AM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com
Scientists have traced the human eye back to a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago — and remnants of that ancient “cyclops” eye may still survive inside our brains as the pineal gland

What if the mysterious gland Descartes thought held the soul is actually a shriveled relic from our one-eyed ancestor—and some animals still use theirs.

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Sep 8 • 6:15 AM EDT • Science • spacedaily.com
In 1942, scientists stacked roughly 45,000 graphite blocks beneath the stands of a Chicago football stadium and started the world’s first nuclear reactor — while one physicist waited nearby with an axe, ready to cut a rope and drop an emergency rod if the reaction ran out of control

The architect of the atomic age had no emergency button, no computer failsafe—just a physicist with an axe and steady nerves standing between Chicago and catastrophe.

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Sep 8 • 5:45 AM EDT • Science • scienceblog.com
A 300,000-year-old jawbone from China refuses to fit neatly into the human family tree — and a reconstructed million-year-old skull is now suggesting our major ancestral branches split hundreds of thousands of years earlier than we thought

The fossil record is forcing scientists to rewrite when and where human ancestry split into separate branches, upending decades of assumptions about our evolutionary path.

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Sep 8 • 5:30 AM EDT • Science • scienceblog.com
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Humpback whales can sing for up to 16 hours without stopping, and scientists have found their songs are synchronized with every dive — different themes line up with the descent, the deep-water phase and the climb back to the surface

The whales aren't just singing—they're composing underwater symphonies that match the architecture of their own bodies in motion, revealing a hidden layer of sophistication in one of nature's most mesmerizing performances.

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Sep 8 • 5:15 AM EDT • Science • scienceblog.com
Scientists found two bat species never known to science in Cameroon’s rainforest after studying bats that looked almost identical

Deep inside the rainforests of southeastern Cameroon, scientists have identified two bat species that had never been formally recognised by science. The discoveries came from surveys in and around Lobéké National Park and the Dja Biosphere Reserve, where researchers examined a small collection of forest bats belonging to the genus Glauconycteris.

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Sep 8 • 4:40 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
China’s Warrior Scientists: Insights from Recent Operations Around Taiwan

China’s marine scientific research ships are expanding their operations around Taiwan, and they are not just there to advance the frontiers of human

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Sep 8 • 3:30 AM EDT • Science • warontherocks.com
Lallemand establishes Solyve as dedicated food and beverage enzyme business

Lallemand has launched Solyve as a dedicated food and beverage enzyme business. The move follows Lallemand’s acquisition-led expansion.

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Sep 8 • 3:05 AM EDT • Business • foodingredientsfirst.com
Chinese scientists propose turning abandoned coal mines into underground farms

Insulated from surface weather and natural disasters, mining tunnels could offer agricultural advantages amid climate change, scientists say.

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Sep 8 • 2:09 AM EDT • Science • scmp.com
DORAY Science and Technology Award Goes to KAIST, Gyeongsang National University Professors

DORAY Science and Technology Award Goes to KAIST, Gyeongsang National University Professors Five Young Scientists Receive 150 Million Won Fellowships Each for Three Years

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Sep 8 • 1:50 AM EDT • Science • chosun.com