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JWST Finds 29 Cygni b Likely Formed Like a Planet, Not a Star
JWST observations of 29 Cygni b point to disk accretion, with carbon- and oxygen-rich signatures and a spin-aligned orbit that argue against star-like collapse.
JWST Sharpens Evidence for the Universe's First Stars in a Pristine Helium Clump Beside GN-z11
Two companion JWST studies confirm a spectrally resolved helium emitter with no detectable metals sitting 3 kiloparsecs from GN-z11, the strongest signature yet of Population III stars at redshift 10.6.
IISc Team Clocks Electrons Flowing as a Near-Perfect Dirac Fluid in Ultraclean Graphene, Violating Wiedemann-Franz Law by More Than 200-Fold
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science report a quantum-critical electron fluid in graphene with viscosity near the theoretical lower bound and a dramatic decoupling of heat and charge transport.
Emperor Penguin and Antarctic Fur Seal Declared Endangered as Climate Change Reshapes Antarctica's Ecosystems
The IUCN Red List has reclassified the emperor penguin from Near Threatened to Endangered and the Antarctic fur seal from Least Concern to Endangered, citing sea-ice loss and krill decline driven by climate change.
Converging Experiments Rule Out the Sterile Neutrino as JUNO's First Data Hint at New Physics Beyond the Standard Model
MicroBooNE and KATRIN independently close the door on the light sterile neutrino, while China's JUNO detector surpasses 50 years of precision in just 59 days.
Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of 2,456 Genomes Confirms Humans Reached Australia 60,000 Years Ago via Two Separate Maritime Routes
An analysis of 2,456 mitochondrial genomes published in Science Advances identifies two distinct maritime routes humans used to reach Sahul roughly 60,000 years ago.
SuperCDMS Dark Matter Detector Reaches Near-Absolute-Zero Operating Temperature at SNOLAB, Preparing for First Science Run
The SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB has cooled its 24 detectors to near absolute zero, preparing to probe an unexplored low-mass dark matter range within the year.
Scientists Discover 24 New Deep-Sea Species and an Entirely New Branch of Life in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone
Researchers identify 24 amphipod species, a new family, and a new superfamily in a region targeted for deep-sea mining.
700 Fossils from China's Jiangchuan Biota Push Complex Animal Origins Back Before the Cambrian Explosion
A trove of late Ediacaran fossils in Yunnan province reveals bilaterians, deuterostomes, and comb jellies existed at least four million years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of animal evolution.
Penn State Team Reveals Iron Telluride Is a Superconductor After Decades of Misidentification as an Ordinary Magnetic Metal
Two back-to-back Nature papers show that removing excess iron atoms from iron telluride unlocks superconductivity at 13.5 Kelvin, overturning a longstanding assumption and suggesting similar hidden quantum states may exist in other correlated materials.
JWST Reveals Metal-Poor Atmosphere on Forbidden Exoplanet TOI-5205b, Challenging Giant Planet Formation Models
Webb telescope finds a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf has fewer heavy elements in its atmosphere than its own star, defying all existing formation theories.
Over 600 House Platforms Identified at Ireland's Brusselstown Ring, Making It the Largest Prehistoric Settlement in Britain or Ireland
Queen's University Belfast researchers have identified more than 600 suspected house platforms at a Bronze Age hillfort in County Wicklow, proposing it as Ireland's earliest proto-town, two millennia before the Vikings.