A distant galaxy may be firing cosmic neutrinos from runaway starbirth
Astronomers traced ghostly particles back to a galaxy nicknamed Shadow Blaster, suggesting intense star formation — not a giant black hole — is the source.
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California's fault system is the most stressed it's been in 1,000 years
A new study finds the Cajon Pass — where the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults cross — is carrying more strain than at any point in a millennium, hinting at an "earthquake gate" that could steer the next major rupture.
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Your kidneys appear to run a hidden water-saving backup system
Mayo Clinic researchers found a second, independent pathway the body uses to conserve water — one that works even when the main mechanism is bypassed.
ScienceDailyJun 18
Nvidia's RTX Spark wants to put a data center in your laptop
At Computex, Jensen Huang unveiled an Arm-based PC superchip built to run AI agents locally and around the clock — what he called computing with "no meter anxiety."
CNBCJun 2
Reshaping a surface kept a superconductor working at higher temperatures
Swedish researchers nudged an ultrathin film to stay superconducting under stronger heat and magnetic fields simply by sculpting what sits beneath it.
ScienceDailyJun 17
The first global map of underground fungi reveals a buried superhighway
Scientists charted the planet's hidden fungal networks for the first time, estimating they stretch some 68 quadrillion miles beneath our feet.
SciTechDailyJun 18
Plague was killing people 5,500 years ago — long before cities
Ancient DNA from Siberian hunter-gatherers pushes the disease's deadly history back well before farming, towns, or the crowded conditions usually blamed.
ScienceDailyJun 18
Webb spotted methane on a comet from another star system
The James Webb telescope made the first direct detection of methane on interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, revealing chemistry unlike anything in our own neighborhood.
ScienceDailyJun 4
A brain-inspired chip just ran near absolute zero
A Hong Kong team built a neuromorphic chip that keeps working in extreme cold — a possible bridge between brain-like computing and practical quantum machines.
ScienceDailyJun 12
LG's home robot says it'll fold your laundry
At CES 2026, LG showed off CLOiD — an AI home robot it pitches as a step toward a "zero-labor home." Whether it sticks the landing is another question.
Tom's GuideJun 9
Scientists nudged regeneration back on in mammals
A two-stage treatment coaxed mammal tissue toward rebuilding complex parts, hinting the ability isn't truly lost — just switched off.
ScienceDailyJun 17
RIKEN built a one-way street for quantum sound
A new design makes quantum systems synchronize in a single direction and stay stable despite manufacturing flaws and background noise.
ScienceDailyJun 12
UV light broke down 'forever chemicals' — no extra reagents needed
Hydrogen radicals generated by intense ultraviolet light tore apart stubborn PFAS, pointing toward a cleaner, simpler way to deal with them.
ScienceDailyJun 16
Are we missing alien signals because their stars scramble them?
A SETI study suggests stellar storms and turbulent plasma can smear ultra-narrow radio messages before they ever leave their home system.
ScienceDailyJun 16
A classic psychology test exposed a big weakness in top AI models
Researchers ran leading models through a standard attention test from psychology — and watched them stumble in revealing ways.
ScienceDailyJun 10
Earbuds with a dedicated AI chip aim to out-think AirPods
Soundcore's Liberty 5 Pro Max leans on on-device AI for adaptive noise canceling, plus a tiny touchscreen built into the case.
BGRJun 16
The race to build data centers in orbit is heating up
Backers argue space could supply abundant solar power for AI computing while dodging earthbound limits — if the engineering actually holds up.
ScienceDailyJun 18
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