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Appears in 4 stories · Last updated Oct 18, 2026
Developed the transmission strings technique
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found that WASP-17b, a scorching gas giant 1,300 light-years away, has a lopsided atmosphere that bulges outward on one side. The finding, published in Nature Astronomy on October 14, comes from a technique called transmission strings that maps the atmosphere's outer edge at many angles during a transit.
Updated Oct 18
As of September 2026: Academic partner in the discovery
In 1972, blood from a pregnant woman showed red cells missing a surface marker everyone else carried. It took until 2024 to trace that marker to a gene called MAL, establishing a new human blood group system.
Updated Sep 20
As of September 2026: Led the international team that described the new species
A fossil that sat in a London museum for more than 60 years is forcing paleontologists to revise the early dinosaur timeline. The animal, Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, was a plant-eater that lived in what is now Tanzania about 240 million years ago.
Updated Sep 16
As of May 2026: Lead institution for study
In 1989, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould argued that if you could rewind evolution and play it again, the results would be utterly different—humanity was a cosmic accident. A study published in Nature on November 12, 2025 offers the most comprehensive counterargument yet. It shows that 11 different animal lineages independently crawled out of the water across 487 million years and repeatedly evolved the same genetic solutions.
Updated May 27
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