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There's a Volcano in Antarctica Spewing Gold Crystals Into The Atmosphere
NEWS | 02 July 2026
On Ross Island in the Ross Sea, a deep bay in Antarctica, Mount Erebus fumes about 1,350 kilometers (840 miles) from the Geographic South Pole. A satellite image of Mount Erebus showing its permanent lake of lava. (European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery)To date, it's the only volcano in the world known to spew forth crystalline elemental gold particles. But there's something unique about Erebus that allows the gold to separate from the compounds that held it in the volcanic emissions. Lenticular clouds over Mount Erebus in Antarctica.

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Drug Stops 90% of Pancreatic Cancer Migration in Lab Tests
NEWS | 02 July 2026
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common form of pancreatic cancer, is particularly deadly and hard to treat. Of the compounds tested, the catchily named NSL-YHJ-2-27 led the way in terms of pancreatic cancer suppression, blocking more than 90 percent of cancer cell migration even at low concentrations. Increasing concentrations of NSL-YHJ-2-27 led to increased markers of programmed cell death in pancreatic cancer cells. There are limitations to mention here – not least that this has only been tested on lab-grown pancreatic cancer cells so far. KRAS isn't just implicated in pancreatic cancer, and is linked to around 30 percent of all cancers with solid tumors, including colorectal and lung cancers.

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For The First Time, Scientists Say They've Built a Synthetic Cell From Scratch
NEWS | 02 July 2026
Scientists from the University of Minnesota say they have created the first-ever synthetic cell built entirely from scratch, and seen it go through an entire 'life' cycle – including reproduction. SpudCell is the first synthetic cell system built from non-living components to complete a full cell cycle. Fluorescent microscopy of SpudCell, a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components, undergoing division. "I think biologists might not appreciate the significance of the chemical engineering simplicity of minimal cell," Adamala explained to ScienceAlert. A fully synthetic cell may allow for efficiencies and specificities that surpass existing biotechnologies.

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Explosive Diarrhea Is Surging Across The US Right Now
NEWS | 02 July 2026
Hundreds of people in the US so far have recently developed a specific type of food poisoning that's causing watery and occasionally explosive diarrhea. As of right now, there's no one known source of infection – but it appears to be coming from within the US, not overseas. "There is currently no evidence of a single, multistate Cyclospora outbreak linking all cases," the CDC said. Besides diarrhea, symptoms can also include weight loss, cramping, bloating, a loss of appetite, nausea, and fatigue. Given there were more than 1,000 cases reported in the US last year, there's likely more to come.

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Single Injection Reverses Osteoarthritis in Animals in Just 4 Weeks
NEWS | 02 July 2026
The chronic loss of joint cartilage known as osteoarthritis causes pain and bone decay for hundreds of millions of people every day. But a new treatment option just got a step closer to human trials – in the form of a simple, single shot. After a single injection, the joints patched themselves up to a healthy state within four to eight weeks, according to the team from the University of Colorado (UC) Boulder. It's important to note that the results are still awaiting peer review, so we can't get too carried away just yet. The amount of cartilage in our joints naturally decreases over time, but regular exercise is one way you can protect against this.

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SPONSORED | 02 July 2026
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Scientists Just Found a Planet That Got a Second Life After Its Star Died
NEWS | 02 July 2026
Of all the strange worlds in our Milky Way galaxy, some of the most mysterious are those hanging around white dwarf stars. "The JWST transit spectrum of WD 1856b is unlike any other planet we'd seen before." White dwarf stars are among the most extreme objects in the Universe. That timing suggests the white dwarf was not responsible; something else must have reheated it long after the stellar transformation. "Ultimately, the dream would be to find a rocky planet orbiting a white dwarf, perhaps even in its habitable zone.

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Ghostly Glow of Nuclear Power Station Was Detected in Water 150 Miles Away
NEWS | 02 July 2026
This event was the first time that water had been used to detect a particle known as an antineutrino, which had been fired from a nuclear reactor more than 240 kilometers (150 miles) away. Electron antineutrinos are emitted during nuclear beta decay, a type of radioactive decay in which a neutron decays into a proton, an electron, and antineutrino. One of these electron antineutrinos can then interact with a proton to produce a positron and a neutron, a reaction known as inverse beta decay. Antineutrinos are produced in prodigious quantities by nuclear reactors, but they're relatively low energy, which makes them difficult to detect. The result suggested that plain water could one day be used to monitor the output of nuclear reactors from a distance.

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Antarctica's Blood Falls Hides a Hidden World That's Never Seen The Sun
NEWS | 02 July 2026
This is Antarctica's Blood Falls – and its internal world is even stranger than it looks. Blood Falls has become a key study site. But perhaps the most fascinating part of Blood Falls isn't the chemistry. At the same time, the lake recorded a sudden cold-water anomaly, and the camera caught fresh red staining spreading at Blood Falls almost daily. Related: The Mystery Path of Antarctica's Blood Falls Has Finally Been RevealedIt's just another reason Blood Falls is one of the coolest (literally) and most fascinating places on Earth.

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In a First For Science, a Satellite Has Identified What It's Seeing From Space
NEWS | 02 July 2026
However, the YAM-9 satellite has just done something different: It has identified and described features in its image scans without needing to check back with ground control. A selection of the image types the satellite was asked to distinguish between. Crucially, it can run on a small satellite, where physical size, energy use, and computing power all have to be carefully managed. The satellite would evaluate what it sees and only report back when something meets that criteria." "It opens the door to always-on, patrol layers in space," Loft Orbital Head of AI Paul Lasserre told TechCrunch.

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There's a Scientific Reason Australia's Favorite Chaotic Seal Keeps Destroying Traffic Cones
NEWS | 02 July 2026
When an elephant seal is shedding, they like to rub up against surfaces, experts explain. Neil especially loves to gyrate on traffic cones, which are sometimes placed around him when he takes a nap in public areas and won't budge. If you are over a literal ton of potential chonky violence, it's less trouble to put up traffic cones than it would be to risk upsetting you." Keeping a safe distance will become increasingly important as he grows into a fully fledged adult elephant seal. Officials at Tasmania's Department of Natural Resources and Environment are keeping a close eye on the local icon.

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Mysterious Global 'Hum' Has Tormented People For 50 Years – Scientists Think They May Have Found a Cause
NEWS | 02 July 2026
People report it as a persistent, low-frequency sound that can be a hum, a drone, or a rumbling. "We know that there are people who hear low-frequency sounds that can actually be measured, even if other people don't hear them," Drexl says. "But it's not so easy to find the source of these sound waves, because it's a struggle to localize low-frequency sounds." Participants in the study also reported factors that either worsened (a) or dampened (b) The Hum they heard, referred to here as "low-frequency sound percepts" (LFSPs). The first theory was that people who hear The Hum have unusually sensitive low-frequency hearing.

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Scientists Find a Razor-Sharp Line of Earthquakes Hidden Beneath Alaska
NEWS | 02 July 2026
Known as the 2002 Denali earthquake, it was a seismic reminder of how much power lies latent beneath our feet, and just how far-reaching its impacts can be. They've reported their findings in The Seismic Record, a journal of the Seismological Society of America. These earthquakes followed a clean line – or, as the scientists put it, a 'razor-sharp edge' – along the subducting Yakutat slab. Lead author Meghan Miller, a seismologist at Australian National University, says the machine learning aspect of the study was essential to uncovering the Yakutat edge. The findings also support theories that the Yakutat slab had a hand in forming the volcanic fields in the area, which are relatively young, geologically speaking.

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A 400-Year-Old Painting Caught Bats Eating Birds Before Science Did
NEWS | 02 July 2026
The painting depicts dozens of bat and bird species, but in amongst the menagerie is a recognizable noctule bat (of the genus Nyctalus), holding a bird in its mouth. This is very unusual behavior for a bat, and it wasn't until 2025 that scientists confirmed that greater noctule bats (Nyctalus lasiopterus) do indeed snack on migratory passerines (or perching birds), whilst flying in mid-air. While the bird-snacking tendencies of greater noctule bats were only confirmed last year, the evidence has been building for a couple of decades – including the discovery of robin and blue tit feathers in the poop of N. lasiopterus bats. Only three bat species have been found to eat birds, and only N. Iasiopterus is known to do it on the wing. "However, the fact that a noctule bat, and no other bat species, is represented in the scene suggests an observational inspiration rather than purely symbolic convention."

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Two Scientists Found a Bone in Antarctica in 1985. It Took 41 Years to Realize What They'd Actually Discovered
NEWS | 02 July 2026
Forty years ago, two scientists spent their summer mapping layers of rock on James Ross Island, off the southeast side of Antarctica, as part of a British Antarctic Survey expedition. Mike Thomson's 1985 geological field notebook, next to the first-ever dinosaur fossil vertebra found in Antarctica. (British Antarctic Survey)Forty years later, re-analysis of that fossilized bone has revealed it's something far more interesting: The very first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica. And it had been sitting in the British Antarctic Survey archives, unexamined, for more than 40 years. Two different angles of the Antarctic dinosaur fossil.