3+ hour, 17+ min ago  (716+ words) The newly confirmed planets, TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, orbit an F7-type dwarf star about 1, 110 light years from Earth in the southern constellation Volans. Although each planet is about the size of Jupiter, both are remarkably lightweight for their size....

7+ hour, 41+ min ago  (700+ words) While hiking through Morocco's Dad's Valley, Dr. Rowan Martindale spotted something so unusual that it immediately caught her attention. Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at The University of Texas at Austin, was exploring the rugged landscape with fellow researchers, including…...

9+ hour, 44+ min ago  (711+ words) The battle between butter and margarine comes down to chemistry. Butter's naturally occurring fats create rich flavors, golden browning, and flaky baked goods, while margarine's modified plant oils offer consistency and a longer shelf life. Although both contain mostly fat,…...

10+ hour, 42+ min ago  (220+ words) A new study reveals that goldfish can do far more than survive in the wild'they can fundamentally reshape freshwater ecosystems. Researchers found they cloud water, damage food webs, and hurt native fish populations, sometimes triggering major ecological shifts....

13+ hour, 59+ min ago  (225+ words) A new study found that fructose and glucose may look the same on a nutrition label, but the brain treats them very differently. In mice, glucose strongly reduced activity in hunger-promoting brain cells, while fructose had a much weaker effect....

21+ hour, 23+ min ago  (708+ words) A chance encounter with a young great white shark has prompted scientists to revisit more than a century and a half of records in an effort to better understand one of the Mediterranean Sea's most elusive predators. The unusual catch…...

22+ hour, 58+ min ago  (361+ words) Scientists have discovered a "ballista spider" that builds a spring-powered silk trap designed specifically to catch aggressive green tree ants. The ant unknowingly triggers the mechanism itself, launching into the spider's web in one of nature's most extraordinary hunting strategies....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (113+ words) The Venus Life Equation Like the famous Drake Equation, the VLE estimates the probability of life by combining several contributing factors. Each factor is multiplied together to produce an overall estimate of the likelihood that life exists. Surviving the Journey…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (299+ words) An extraordinary high-energy event detected deep in space is giving astronomers a rare opportunity to study some of the Universe's most extreme phenomena. On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope spotted an exceptionally bright X-ray source during a…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (521+ words) Researchers found that a rare liver cancer evades immunotherapy by luring immune T cells away from the tumor and trapping them in nearby fibrous tissue. An FDA-approved drug called AMD3100 freed those T cells to attack the cancer, significantly improving the…...