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Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in a Lab. Then It Started to 'Evaporate'.
NEWS | 06 July 2026
Now, in a black hole analog made of – ironically – light, a team of physicists led by Lorenzo Procopio of Paderborn University in Germany has observed an analog of Hawking radiation backreaction. From a black hole, there's nothing in the Universe that can achieve escape velocity, not even light. Some are surprisingly simple, such as water swirling down a drain to mimic the flow of spacetime around a black hole. Previously, physicists thought the Hawking radiation seen in black hole analogs emerged through a complex cascade of optical interactions. If so, it could help resolve some of the thorniest problems in theoretical black hole physics.

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Chemo-Free Technique Destroys 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab
NEWS | 06 July 2026
Scientists may have found a way to destroy cancer cells without initially relying on chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation. The technique involves using aminocyanine molecules – synthetic dyes already widely used in medical imaging – and stimulating them with near-infrared light. The procedure can kill cancer cells within minutes, even at low doses. The experiments demonstrated a 99 percent success rate at destroying cancer cells in lab cultures. But scientists think that because this is a mechanical technique, it's not something the cancer cells are likely to develop resistance to.

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Scientists Calculated When The Last Plants on Earth Will Die
NEWS | 06 July 2026
Under this scenario, plants would be starved of carbon, killing off the vegetative biosphere around 1.84 billion years from now. This scenario puts the maximum lifetime of plants on Earth at around 1.87 billion years in the future – longer than most previous studies have calculated. Diagrams illustrating the maximum lifespan of Earth's vegetative biosphere under different scenarios. "If this is the case, then the maximum lifetime of Earth's vegetative biosphere is comparable to the lifetime of Earth's oceans." Either or both of these factors could extend how long plants survive on – or importantly, off – Earth.

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Turning Off One Protein Made Mice Immune to Obesity. Scientists Just Tested It on Human Cells
NEWS | 06 July 2026
Fat cells without MTCH2 (left) have fewer fat drops (green). The researchers also determined that cells without any Mitch also focused on fats in particular as an energy source. In other words, we showed that Mitch determines the fate of fat in human cells." Another larger-scale fat-related discovery emerged: the absence of Mitch disrupts the process of entire cells turning into fat tissue too, known as fat cell differentiation. As a result, differentiation of new fat cells is reduced, along with fat accumulation."

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Scientists Tested The Running Speed of 258 Spiders. One of Them Can Outrun a Jogger
NEWS | 06 July 2026
A new study analyzes the sprinting pace of 258 different spider species, and the fastest of the bunch can easily catch a person walking. The experimental setup to measure spider speeds. (Kuchibhotla et al., bioRxiv, 2026)This study wasn't just a straightforward speed test, though – the researchers wanted to see how spider evolution and anatomy affected running pace. And the average top speed of the flic-flac spider is 1.7 meters per second – showing the gap in our appreciation of spider speeds that this latest study has filled. It was ground-hunting spiders that ran the fastest for their size, likely because they spend a lot of time actively chasing prey.

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SPONSORED | 06 July 2026
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For The First Time, Scientists 'Heard' Plasma Waves Passing Between Saturn And Enceladus
NEWS | 06 July 2026
From the deep booming of black holes to the disconcerting twang or whistling chorus of Earth's magnetic field, space could easily be a cacophony of the creeps. One of the studies showed for the first time that plasma waves travel between Saturn and Enceladus along magnetic field lines connecting the two bodies. "Now we find that Saturn responds by launching signals in the form of plasma waves, through the circuit of magnetic field lines connecting it to Enceladus hundreds of thousands of miles away." They were electrostatic plasma waves, which can travel through the vacuum of space. We already know that the relationship between Saturn and Enceladus is very different from the relationship between Earth and the Moon.

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Alien-Like Reproductive Strategy Found in 125-Million-Year-Old Fossil
NEWS | 06 July 2026
But exploring the evolutionary roots of these diverse maternal methods is tough, because reproductive tissues decay quickly after an animal's death. Now, an incredible discovery published in Scientific Reports offers some rare insight: an international research team has described a 125-million-year-old 'pregnant' shellfish with preserved soft tissues, including its itty-bitty babies. One of the incredibly well-preserved Cretaceous freshwater shellfish. (University of Portsmouth)"This is the earliest known fossil evidence that these shellfish cared for and protected their developing young. The 125-million-year-old 'babies' are shown in images b and d, at different levels of early development, including oogonia and incipient embryos, respectively.

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Leave This Fruit Out of Your Next Berry Smoothie, Experiments Suggest
NEWS | 06 July 2026
Next time you're making yourself a berry smoothie, you might want to hold off on the banana. According to research from the University of California, Davis (UCD), there's something in bananas that might overpower the antioxidants in berries. But experiments suggest that when just a single banana is added to a berry mix, these metabolites are not nearly as abundant. In a controlled, blinded study published in the journal Food and Function in 2023, researchers at UCD gave a small group of eight participants either a flavonol-rich berry smoothie or a simple flavonol capsule. When a banana-berry smoothie with high PPO was left at room temperature in experiments, researchers found it contained fewer flavonols than a pure berry smoothie after an hour of sitting.

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Erectile Dysfunction Can Be a Warning Sign of a Serious Heart Issue, Experts Warn
NEWS | 06 July 2026
Erectile dysfunction is a topic many are reluctant to discuss, but flagging the problem with a doctor could be important. Between 40 and 70, the prevalence of erectile dysfunction tips over 50 percent. But some surveys have found that almost 20 percent of those over 55 would not seek advice from a healthcare professional for erectile dysfunction. "Erectile dysfunction is often a hint of underlying heart disease," cardiologist Michael Joseph Blaha has said in a review for Johns Hopkins Medicine. Its title, The Canary in the Coal Mine: Erectile Dysfunction as the Best Biomarker of Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases, sums up their main message about how erectile dysfunction may indicate other health problems.

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Scientists Just Unlocked an Endless Army of Cancer-Fighting Cells
NEWS | 06 July 2026
One of the first lines of defense is a specialized white blood cell called a macrophage. "We found that, under the right conditions, [progenitors] can also self-renew, dividing extensively while keeping their identity and ability to produce functional immune cells." "That gives us a scalable starting point for engineering cell therapies for cancer, infectious disease, and potentially many other conditions." These white blood cells have also proven difficult to grow outside the human body, often failing to proliferate to necessary levels. This new research, however, suggests that targeting the progenitors of immune cells is a potentially better route to success, covering more bases all at once.

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This Week in Science: Neil The Seal, Mega Megalodon, And More!
NEWS | 06 July 2026
This Week in Science: A viral sensation is back in town, a sea monster's gigantic size is confirmed, Yellowstone installs a new pool, and much more! First up: 'Neil the seal' has returned to wreak havoc in the Tasmanian towns where he first achieved internet stardom. There's a Scientific Reason Australia's Favorite Chaotic Seal Keeps Destroying Traffic Cones(Marine Conservation Program/Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania)His name is Neil the seal, and this year, he's gotten absolutely enormous - in size and in popularity. With every extra chunk of blubber, the seal seems to be accruing more and more fans, with a TikTok following of 1.4 million. That vertebra became the foundation for maximum-size estimates of the giant shark (Otodus megalodon), suggesting a huge monster that terrorized Neogene seas.

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500 Years Before The Incas, This Civilization Ruled The Andes. We're Only Now Piecing Together Who They Were
NEWS | 06 July 2026
This older empire was called the Tiwanaku polity (previously known as the Tiwanaku state). A diver with a bowl recovered from the Tiwanaku site. A researcher diving at the Tiwanaku site. A subsequent analysis by some of the same researchers examined a number of the artifacts found at the lake site. The Lake Titicaca dive findings were reported in PNAS, and the temple research is detailed in Antiquity.

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Tiny Device Developed in Berkeley Could Help Save Millions From Food Poisoning
NEWS | 06 July 2026
If you wind up with an upset tummy after eating some questionable food, you're probably one of the lucky ones. The electric nose, developed at UC Berkeley, can improve food safety by detecting gases associated with spoiled food or common food allergens. (Brandon Sánchez-Mejia/UC Berkeley)Importantly, this technology can be incorporated into everyday appliances to protect us from hidden pathogens, including those associated with food spoilage. Related: The 4 Key Signs You Should Chuck Old Food, According to ScienceBut there's no reason to limit e-nose applications to food. This technology could potentially be expanded to biometrics, to understand and track human-health scents à la diabetes alert dogs.