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CSIRO Expedition Discovers More Than 120 New Species in Australia's Coral Sea, Including a Ghost Shark and New Rays
A 36-day voyage aboard CSIRO's RV Investigator surveyed 61 deep-water sites in Australia's Coral Sea Marine Park, collecting over 6,000 fishes and 80,000 invertebrates and identifying more than 120 species new to science at depths reaching 3,600 meters.
Ancient DNA From a Beijing Burial Site Reveals a Previously Unknown Human Lineage That Vanished From Modern East Asian Genomes
Genome-wide analysis of 11,000-year-old remains from the Donghulin site near Beijing has identified a deeply divergent northern East Asian lineage with no match in any previously studied population, offering new evidence that cultural continuity does not guarantee genetic continuity.
Yale Astronomers Discover a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter, Strengthening the Case for Violent Cosmic Collisions
NGC 1052-DF9 is the third ultra-diffuse galaxy found lacking dark matter in a linear trail near NGC 1052, lending significant support to the Bullet Dwarf collision theory and challenging alternative gravity models.
University of Houston Physicists Break 32-Year Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity Record With Pressure-Quenched Ceramic at 151 Kelvin
A team at the Texas Center for Superconductivity used a pressure-quenching technique on a mercury-based copper-oxide ceramic to achieve a transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a record that had stood since 1993.
Over 700 Fossils from China's Jiangchuan Biota Push the Origin of Complex Animals Back into the Ediacaran
A fossil assemblage preserved as carbonaceous films in Yunnan Province reveals more than 700 specimens of complex animals, including the oldest known deuterostomes, dating to 554-539 million years ago and closing a major gap between the Ediacaran period and the Cambrian explosion.
Rice University Develops MagnetoARPES Technique That Reveals Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in a Kagome Superconductor
Rice University physicists built magnetoARPES, a new instrument that revealed the first direct momentum-space evidence of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5, confirming theoretically predicted loop current orders.
Sungrazer Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS Faces Death or Glory as It Plunges Through the Solar Corona on April 4
The farthest Kreutz sungrazer ever discovered will pass just 161,000 kilometers above the Sun's surface on Saturday, threading the inner solar corona in a make-or-break encounter that could produce a comet visible in broad daylight or end in total disintegration.
Gulf Stream's Abrupt Northward Shift Could Provide 25-Year Warning Before Atlantic Circulation Collapse, Utrecht Study Finds
High-resolution simulations show the Gulf Stream jumps 219 km north roughly 25 years before AMOC collapse, and satellite data confirms the current has already begun drifting northward from Cape Hatteras.
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration Releases GWTC-4, More Than Doubling the Catalog of Known Gravitational Wave Events to 218
The fourth gravitational wave transient catalog adds 128 new detections from a nine-month observing run, including the heaviest and fastest-spinning black hole mergers ever recorded.
ETH Zurich Engineers a Single-Atom Indium Catalyst That Converts CO2 Into Methanol With Unprecedented Efficiency
Isolated indium atoms on hafnium oxide outperform conventional nanoparticle catalysts in CO2-to-methanol synthesis, opening a path to fossil-free chemical production.
Nearly Complete Patagonian Fossil Rewrites Alvarezsaur Evolution, Showing Miniaturization Preceded Specialization
A 90-million-year-old skeleton from Argentina reveals that alvarezsaur dinosaurs shrank to under two pounds before evolving their hallmark ant-eating adaptations, upending decades of evolutionary assumptions.
Hubble Accidentally Captures a Comet Breaking Apart in Real Time, a First for the 35-Year-Old Telescope
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught comet C/2025 K1 fragmenting into at least four pieces across three days, marking the closest-to-breakup observation in the telescope's history.