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A University of Colorado Denver engineer is on the cusp of giving scientists a new tool that can help them turn sci-fi into reality. Imagine a safe gamma ray laser that could eradicate cancer cells without damaging healthy tissue. Or a tool that could help determine if Stephen Hawking’s multiverse theory is real by revealing the fabric underlying the universe. …

Published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of Chilean scientists announced the discovery of Yeutherium pressor, a mouse-sized mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs roughly 74 million years ago. Found in the remote Rio de las Chinas Valley in the Magallanes region of southern Chile, the fossil offers an unusually complete glimpse into the diversity …

Recently, China conducted a critical test of its new lunar lander, Lanyue (“Embracing the Moon”), running the vehicle through a landing on and takeoff from a simulated lunar surface. What is it? Lanyue is China’s first crewed lunar landing vehicle, purpose-built to ferry astronauts between lunar orbit and the moon‘s surface. Standing on four legs, Lanyue is designed to transport …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s Perseverance Rover captured this image of a strange rock on Aug. 5, 2025. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA’s Perseverance rover has stumbled across a curious, volcano-shaped rock on the surface of Mars that looks rather like a weathered battle helmet. Captured by the …

A sunflower sea star – credit, Ed Bierman CC 2.0. For years, a wasting disease has been turning sea stars to goo off the California coast. Scientists now finally know the cause, and are beginning to fight back. Whether it has over 20 arms like the sunflower sea star, or just 5, billions of Pacific sea stars were being wiped …

In June, Clarivate, the owner of Web of Science, released the 2025 update to the Journal Citation Reports that is described as a ‘comprehensive overview of the world’s leading and trusted academic journals’. Only those journals that have met Clarivate’s quality standards are featured and, for the first time, the release excluded citations to and from retracted content when calculating …

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Stretching around 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) along western North America, the Tintina fault has long been assumed to be inactive. Now, a new study has challenged that assumption, finding that the fault has generated “numerous large earthquakes in the recent geologic past” – and it could be brewing another one of “at least” magnitude 7.5. The rest of this article …

Reagents Chemicals used for cell death assays were dissolved in DMSO. 17β-oestradiol, testosterone and 2-hydroxyoestradiol were dissolved in ethanol. A list of sources of all chemicals is provided in the Supplementary Information. Cell lines and cell culture A list of all cell lines used in this study is provided in the Supplementary Information. Human HT1080, HT29, HeLa and mouse NIH-3T3 …

Astronomers have observed what may be the first known case of a massive star exploding while interacting with a black hole, marking a discovery that could reveal an entirely new class of stellar explosions. The event, named SN 2023zkd, was first spotted in July 2023 by the Zwicky Transient Facility in California. Located in a galaxy with little ongoing star …