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Paleontologists Spent 20 Years Dating Thousands of Fossils – Here’s What They Found   2026-09-01 23:52:50 +00:00 How quickly sediment accumulates on the seafloor appears to be the key factor determining whether fossils from different time periods become mixed together. A single layer of marine fossils can look like a snapshot of one ancient community even when the organisms preserved side by side actually lived hundreds or thousands of years apart. For [...] Read more...   Dead Sea Scrolls May Solve a Decades-Old Mystery About the Qumran Calendar   2026-09-01 23:17:03 +00:00 A new study uses Hasmonean history and evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls to address a decades-old mystery. For decades, researchers have debated whether the Qumran sect’s unusual 364-day calendar ever governed daily religious life or existed only as an idealized system. A Tel Aviv University study now proposes that both possibilities may be true [...] Read more...   Study Challenges a Decades-Old Belief About Why Children Struggle To Read   2026-09-01 22:42:25 +00:00 New research shows children’s reading ability is driven more by auditory processing and comprehension-knowledge than by intelligence or visual skills. For decades, people have largely explained children’s reading struggles the same way. Strong readers were seen as naturally intelligent, while children who had difficulty reading were often viewed as less capable. Many also assumed that [...] Read more...   Scientists Discover a “Loose Cannon” Virus Enzyme That Rewires Nearly Every Protein in a Bacterial Cell   2026-09-01 19:36:16 +00:00 Scientists found that phages, viruses that infect bacteria, trigger widespread protein modifications inside host cells that help them evade bacterial immune defenses. When a phage infects a bacterium, it must overcome the cell’s defenses before those defenses can destroy the invading virus. Researchers have now uncovered an unusual strategy used by T7 phage: a single [...] Read more...   Scientists Tracked Galápagos Sea Turtles for Years – What They Found Was Unexpected   2026-09-01 19:01:15 +00:00 Sea turtles are built for epic ocean journeys, yet some in the Galápagos rarely venture beyond their island neighborhood. Sea turtles are renowned for long migrations between feeding grounds and nesting beaches. They navigate using signals that include Earth’s magnetic field, ocean currents, and the sun, often returning to the region where they hatched when [...] Read more...   Scientists Discover a “New” Frog That Was Hiding in Plain Sight for 100 Years   2026-09-01 18:26:24 +00:00 Pristimantis milpe is a common and widespread species that was mistaken for another species for more than a century. For more than a century, a common frog living across the forests of western Ecuador and southern Colombia was hiding in plain sight under the wrong scientific name. Researchers at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador [...] Read more...   Humanity’s Carbon Signature Is Now Embedded Deep in the Ocean   2026-09-01 14:54:46 +00:00 Carbon released by the Industrial Revolution has left a chemical fingerprint nearly everywhere scientists looked in the North Atlantic, including waters thousands of feet below the surface. Scientists have traced carbon from fossil fuel emissions deep into the North Atlantic by measuring shifts in the natural balance between the isotopes C-12 and C-13, revealing how [...] Read more...   Scientists Find TNT Leaking From a 100-Year-Old Submarine Wreck   2026-09-01 14:19:57 +00:00 Fierce naval battles in the North Sea during both world wars sent many ships to the seafloor. Their wrecks remain there today, leaking toxic chemicals that are absorbed by local plants and animals. In April 1917, the German submarine UC-30 was traveling beneath the North Sea near the Danish island of Rømø. Engine problems had [...] Read more...   Earth’s Inner Core May Hide a Strange State of Matter   2026-09-01 13:44:40 +00:00 Experiments under extreme conditions suggest that iron hydride can enter a superionic state, allowing hydrogen to move through a solid iron lattice. Far beneath Earth’s surface, the inner core is squeezed and heated to conditions so extreme that some of its ingredients may behave in an unexpected way. Experiments from researchers at Science Tokyo suggest [...] Read more...   Brain Scans Reveal a Surprising Dopamine Difference in Autism   2026-09-01 11:12:48 +00:00 By analyzing three different types of brain scans, researchers uncovered new clues about the biological processes linked to autism. The results point to the dopamine system as a potentially important part of autism biology. Autism is associated with differences across several systems in the brain, but understanding how those differences connect has been difficult. Researchers [...] Read more...   The Brain Makes New Neurons Even in Adulthood. Depression May Stop It   2026-09-01 10:37:54 +00:00 Depression was linked to stalled adult neurogenesis and widespread molecular changes in hippocampal memory circuits. A small stream of new neurons continues to appear in the adult hippocampus even though most of the brain’s roughly 100 billion neurons are formed before birth. Research from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons suggests that this [...] Read more...   Scientists Discover a Hidden “Immune Organ” Inside the Skull   2026-09-01 10:02:57 +00:00 Researchers discovered lymph node-like immune hubs inside skull bone marrow that appear to act as rapid-response centers for the brain. For decades, the brain was thought to operate largely apart from the immune system. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have now identified lymph node-like structures inside the skull bone marrow [...] Read more...

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