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Appears in 12 stories · Last updated Nov 4, 2026
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The last remnant of the ice sheet that once covered most of North America began growing again about 2,000 years ago, the start of a new glacial period. A study in Science found the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island expanded until around 1960, when rising summer temperatures reversed the growth.
Updated 7 days ago
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Mapping every cell in an adult vertebrate has been out of reach for a simple reason: most vertebrates are too big. A 12-millimeter transparent fish called Danionella cerebrum removed that obstacle. Researchers catalogued 607,370 cells from 12 body regions and mapped where the major cell types sit.
Updated Nov 1
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Bacteria have a last-resort defense against viruses: an infected cell kills itself before the virus can spread. Research published October 1 in Science shows the virus's own enzyme sets off that switch.
Named renewable energy surge 2025 Breakthrough of the Year
In 2004, the world installed one gigawatt (GW) of solar power in a year. By 2025, that amount went online every single day. Global renewable capacity passed 5,000 GW by year-end, and Science Magazine named the surge its 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Coal still generated 34% of global electricity in 2025, the International Energy Agency said; renewables accounted for 49.5% of installed capacity., and U.S. renewables supplied a record 25.7% of electricity in 2025.
Updated Oct 31
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Workers of the ant Lordomyrma azumai carry a glue gun in their venom gland. A secretion that is likely protein-based hardens into a sticky thread when extruded, and workers wipe it onto intruders to pin them to the soil.
Published the 2026 synthesis of new Inca radiocarbon dates
For more than half a century, archaeologists dated the Inca Empire from a timeline built in the 1940s on oral histories recorded by the Spanish cleric Miguel Cabello de Balboa. It gave the empire 94 years, from Pachacuti's rise in 1438 to the Spanish conquest that began in 1532. Radiocarbon dates from sites across the Andes now place Inca activity decades earlier.
Updated Oct 21
Published the ice-cliff study
A survey of 15,330 ice cliffs in Antarctica and Greenland found that tall cliffs break apart faster than ice-sheet models assume, then stop retreating. MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers published the results in Science on October 15, 2026.
Updated Oct 17
As of October 2026: Recognized LLMs as 2025 Breakthrough runner-up
Science magazine named large language models doing frontier science a runner-up breakthrough of 2025. Within weeks, the prediction became reality: OpenAI's GPT-5.2 solved previously unsolved ErdΕs mathematics problems in 15 minutes, achieving 40% accuracy on expert-level mathematics that stumped earlier systems.
Updated Oct 10
As of October 2026: Published the study September 24, 2026
A poxvirus that causes skin warts has carried a human gene for about 100,000 years. Two copies of BC200, a non-coding RNA gene active in human neurons, sit inside molluscum contagiosum virus, the first known virus to harbor a human gene from recent evolutionary history.
Updated Oct 8
As of September 2026: Published the findings
A Stanford team has watched a single quantum of sound vanish in real time. A microscopic resonator switched from one phonon to zero mid-ring, the first direct observation of a quantum jump in sound.
Updated Sep 22
As of July 2026: Reported the study findings
The companies claiming to reinvent science are mostly absent from the scientific record. A study covered by Science on July 27, 2026, found that more than half of the world's AI unicorns have never led a single peer-reviewed paper or preprint.
Updated Jul 29
As of June 2026: Published the 2026 lamprey brain atlas
Scientists have built the first three-dimensional, single-cell map of an entire lamprey brain. The atlas sorts the brain into 14 regions and 209 cell clusters, giving researchers a reference for how the earliest vertebrate brains were wired.
Updated Jun 18
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