With the snip of a gene, scientists hope to erase high cholesterol for life - CNNWith the snip of a gene, scientists hope to erase high cholesterol for life CNN
A baby echidna has been born in a university for the first time - New ScientistA baby echidna has been born in a university for the first time New Scientist
IMAGECollapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists sayPreliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan ice.
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IMAGENASA Scientists Take to Air and Space to Study Arctic Sea IceThis month, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are testing a spacecraft sensor that will help measure how quickly Arctic sea ice is disappearing. And while that instrument won’t launch for another year, scientists started preparing for its use during a recent field campaign in the Canadian wilderness. Researchers spent two weeks […]
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IMAGENASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High DesertEquipped with rock picks and hand lenses, a team of geoscientists deployed to the Mojave Desert recently to investigate a tantalizing “fingerprint” detected by a NASA sensor. Their target: a cache of topaz hiding in plain sight. The geologists weren’t searching for gem-grade treasure. Rather, the presence of topaz could hint at a more valuable […]
IMAGEJim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora AwardLandsat’s Jim Irons won the prestigious William T. Pecora Award. Irons, now an emeritus scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, played an integral role in shaping the Landsat program into what it is today.
IMAGEarXiv Takes the First Step to Combat “AI Slop” in Submissions - the-scientist.comarXiv Takes the First Step to Combat “AI Slop” in Submissions the-scientist.com
IMAGENASA Names Scientists to Support Lunar South Pole ScienceNASA has selected 10 participating scientists to help shape a science plan for astronauts to complete on the lunar surface under the Artemis program – including deploying scientific instruments, making critical observations of the landing site, and collecting Moon rocks. “Congratulations to the scientists selected to participate in this important Artemis lunar surface science team,” […]
IMAGECourse correction needed quickly to avoid pathway to 'hothouse Earth' scenario, scientists sayCorvallis OR (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 Scientists say multiple Earth system components appear closer to destabilization than previously believed, putting the planet in increased danger of following a "hothouse" path driven by feedback loops that can amplify the consequences of global warming. Published in the journal One Earth, "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory" is an analysis by an international collaboration led by Ore
IMAGEMars' "Young" Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once ThoughtBoulder CO USA (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, where magma moves, evolves, and changes over long periods of time. To fully understand how volcanoes work, scientists study the volcanic products that erupt at the surface, which can reveal the hidden magmatic systems feeding volcanic activity. New research published r
IMAGEGeoscientists use satellite to determine not the shape of water, but how water shapes landBlacksburg VA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 What's the shape of water? In 2022, NASA launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to answer this question by precisely measuring the height and extent of bodies of water. Virginia Tech geoscientists are using the same satellite to ask a related question: How is water shaping the land? "We wanted to show how the satellite could be used in ways that it wasn't pr
IMAGEComputer models let scientists peer into the mystery beneath Jupiter's cloudsChicago IL (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant--so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exactly what lies beneath. But a new study led by University of Chicago and Jet Propulsion Lab scientists has given us a deeper look at the planet by creating the most complete model to date of Jupi
IMAGEBerkeley Scientists set to home in on 100 signals from Seti at HomeBerkeley, United States (SPX) Jan 12, 2026 For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The project - called SETI@home, after the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) - generated a loyal following eager to participate in one of the most popular crowd-sourced projects in the early days of the int
IMAGECan scientists detect life without knowing what it looks likeAtlanta GA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu contained many of life's building blocks, including all five nucleobases used in DNA and RNA, 14 of the 20 amino acids found in proteins, and a rich collection of other organic molecules
IMAGELettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space SaladsLettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads Missions to the Moon and Mars pose nutritional challenges for astronauts. Now, a new paper on space-grown food is telling us it’s time to turn over a new leaf. Volunteers from NASA’s Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups (OSDR-AWG) work together to analyze data […]
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IMAGENASA Scientists Help Maryland County Plan to Beat Summer Heat RisksThousands of Americans are impacted each summer by excessive heat and humidity, some suffering from heat-related illnesses when the body can’t cool itself down. Data from NASA satellites could help local governments reduce the sweltering risks, thanks to a collaboration between NASA scientists and officials in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The effort demonstrates how local […]