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Appears in 8 stories · Last updated Nov 2, 2026
Published the study on July 31
NASA's Juno spacecraft crossed Jupiter's bow shock twice on December 10 and 11, 2024, and recorded something no spacecraft had caught at any planet's shock front: an electric-field wave ringing at several frequencies at once. The main tone sat near 5,600 hertz, with overtones at roughly double and triple that pitch.
Updated Nov 1
Published the primary paper
A quantum state predicted in 1931 now exists in a laboratory. Physicists in Innsbruck cooled cesium atoms near absolute zero, squeezed them into thousands of one-dimensional tubes, and watched them bind into clusters called Bethe strings.
Updated Oct 28
As of October 2026: Published the study on October 9, 2026
Chemists at the University of Warwick and the University of Birmingham found that materials which briefly form during heating can have useful properties of their own. The team captured a new form of bismuth vanadate, a compound studied for solar hydrogen production, with a different atomic structure and a larger band gap than any known version.
Updated Oct 12
As of October 2026: Published the study
A protein known for decades as the molecular glue holding tissues together has a second job. E-cadherin also helps epithelial cells swallow and remove their dead neighbors, a study in Nature Communications reports.
Updated Oct 7
As of October 2026: Published the formal description of Norellraptor barsboldi
A new feathered dinosaur species from China, Norellraptor barsboldi, challenges a core assumption about the origin of flight. The 57-centimeter fossil shows that flight-related traits evolved independently in this lineage and in birds.
Updated Oct 4
As of September 2026: Published the synchronization study on September 24, 2026
In 2012, physicist Frank Wilczek proposed the time crystal: a system that oscillates forever with no external drive. Now a German team has shown that separate time crystals inside a semiconductor can lock into one shared rhythm, up to 40 micrometers apart.
Updated Sep 24
As of September 2026: Published the study
Cells in fruit fly larvae can start their own death program, stop partway through it, and survive to rebuild damaged tissue. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science named these cells DARE cells and found they replenished nearly half of the damaged tissue within 48 hours.
Updated Sep 18
As of May 2026: Published the peer-reviewed SLIT3 study
Every obesity drug on the market works by suppressing appetite — making people eat less. A team led by NYU researcher Farnaz Shamsi has mapped a completely different route: the protein SLIT3. An enzyme slices SLIT3 in two, and each half independently builds the blood vessels and nerve wiring that brown fat needs to burn calories as heat. The discovery, published in Nature Communications and validated in tissue from more than 1,500 people, identifies multiple molecular targets that could be turned into drugs.
Updated May 30
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