Category Archives: Research

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Life’s Big Bangs’ – Did complex life emerge more than once?

Mysterious Rocks Could Rewrite Evolution of Complex Life

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

The Slippery Slope of Ethical Collapse—And How Courage Can Reverse It

Your brain gets used to wrongdoing. It can also get used to doing good

Which Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Actually Work?

Experts say the strongest scientific studies identify three compounds that fight disease and inflammation

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China

How a space rock vanished from Africa and showed up for sale across an ocean

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 9, 2025

SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Eclipsing the Sun’ – A unique cosmic event shows an influence of light on bird behavior.

Research on immune system’s ‘police’ garners Nobel

Three scientists honored for revealing how regulatory T cells prevent autoimmune disease

Quantum effects in circuits honored with Physics Nobel

Breakthrough paved the way to many of today’s budding quantum computers

Steadying the output of fiber lasers

High-power fiber lasers are used in a range of scientific fields in addition to their standard use for technology. However, increases in laser output power are limited by nonlinear effects that can damage the optical components and reduce the beam quality. Rothe et al. used a spatial wavefront-shaping technique for multimode fiber lasers that mitigates their detrimental processes, thus enabling output power to be increased appreciably while maintaining beam quality.

New Scientist Magazine – October 11, 2025

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New Scientist Magazine: This issue features ‘Decoding Dementia’ – How to understand your risk of Alzheimer’s, and what you can really do about it.

Why everything you thought you knew about your immune system is wrong

One of Earth’s most vital carbon sinks is faltering. Can we save it?

What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it?

Autism may have subtypes that are genetically distinct from each other

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Should we worry AI will create deadly bioweapons? Not yet, but one day

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Slipping through the cracks’ – Plants attract bacteria by leaking glutamine from gaps between cells when root barriers break down.

Wildfire management at a crossroads: Mitigation and prevention or response and recovery?

A computer scientist’s technological gamble

On prosthetics, printed organs, and pig hearts

Hidden networks in the brain

Battery charging goes quantum

Upwelling that lasted millions of years

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 25, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Color of Prey’ – Selection for warning coloration and camouflage.

Buried salt is abetting Arctic thaw

Ancient layers of saline permafrost are melting below zero, deepening lakes and weakening coasts

Gardening strategies of termite farmers

Termites use microbe-infused soil to protect a fungal symbiont

Understanding avian influenza mortality

Three theories could explain why the North American H5N1 epidemic has not been more deadly

An inheritance of long life

Parental lysosomes modify epigenetic signaling to influence offspring life span

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Voyage to Nowhere’

How a Billionaire’s Plan to Reach Another Star Fell Apart

An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science

When the Rain Pours, the Mountains Move

As warming temperatures bring more extreme rain to the mountains, debris flows are on the rise

New Fossils Could Help Solve Long-standing Mystery of Bird Migration

Tiny fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 11, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Bringing In Light’ – A Swirling supercomplex captures ocean light for photosynthesis.

Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe

Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

New picture of Mars’s interior emerges from lander data

Studies identify a solid inner core and buried remnants of giant impacts

Did Great Britain’s economy shrug off the end of Roman rule?

Pollutants in sediment core suggest mining and smelting did not tail off

Strongest black hole collision yet resonates with Einstein

“Overtone” in gravitational waves from black hole merger matches predictions of general relativity

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 4, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Rules of Thumb’ – The importance of a hand that holds in the evolution of rodents.

Was a blob of dark matter spotted in the Milky Way?

If confirmed, vast cloud could test predictions about the Galaxy’s hidden architecture

Carcinogenic metal detected in air after LA fires

The unusually tiny particles of hexavalent chromium could pose a health hazard despite low levels, researchers say

India tests new tools to predict local monsoon floods

“Hyperlocal” forecasts help Mumbai prepare for dangerous downpours

Can the global drone revolution make agriculture more sustainable?

Rapid growth in drone use is upending expectations but also inducing trade-offs

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 28, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Return of The Herd’ – Ecosystem effects of migrating bison.

Bison move through Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley at sunrise. Their movements and grazing accelerate the nitrogen cycle, increasing the annual nutrition that plants provide to herbivores. After decades of recovery, bison now add heterogeneity that sustains soil nutrient storage and plant productivity while allowing plant communities to become more diverse, highlighting the importance of restoring native grazers in large numbers and with freedom to move. See page 904.

New clues found about the assembly of life’s first proteins

Lab study shows how RNA could have helped amino acids join up—without preexisting protein machinery

Europe’s biggest quake may foretell Atlantic ‘ring of fire’

Earth’s mantle is peeling from the crust in the eastern Atlantic, a possible sign of the ocean’s eventual closure

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – SEPT/OCT 2025 PREVIEW

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Security issue issue – Security can mean national defense, but it can also mean control over data, safety from intrusion, and so much more. This issue explores the way technology, mystery, and the universe itself affect how secure we feel in the modern age.

How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion

Two Long Island UFO hunters have been called upon by some domestic law enforcement to investigate unexplained phenomena.

Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies

President Trump has proposed building an antimissile “golden dome” around the United States. But do cinematic spectacles actually enhance national security?

Inside the hunt for the most dangerous asteroid ever

As space rock 2024 YR4 became more likely to hit Earth than anything of its size had ever been before, scientists all over the world mobilized to protect the planet.

Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening

Semiconductor powerhouse TSMC is under increasing pressure to expand abroad and play a security role for the island. Those two roles could be in tension.