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Scientists Create 3.3 Trillion Degree Particle Soup to Mimic the Universe Just after the Big Bang
NEWS | 15 November 2025
The collision took place at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) run by Brookhaven National Labratory in Brookhaven, NY. The soup of particles born from the collision mimics the universe as it was just after the big bang. After the gold nuclei crashed, the protons and neutrons within them melted into a seething cloud of quark-gluon plasma. The experiment took place at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), within the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) detector. There, gold nuclei racing along a 2.4-mile loop reach mind-boggling speeds before they bang together and disintegrate into quark-gluon plasma.

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Life Expectancy with Type 1 Diabetes Varies Dramatically by Nation
NEWS | 15 November 2025
This video is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Carin Leong: Type 1 diabetes is rising around the world—and no one knows why. It’s partly because we’ve gotten better at detecting type 1 diabetes early on. Treatment of type 1 diabetes has come a long way, but the advancements aren’t shared equally. Type 1 diabetes isn’t a death sentence, but where you live can make it one.

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Scientists Unearth Mysterious Meteorite Crater in China
NEWS | 15 November 2025
I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the Scientific American and Springer Nature Limited Privacy Policy . By providing your email address, you also consent to having the email address shared with third parties for those purposes. Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. Jaret, who was also not involved in the study, emphasizes that the researchers agreed that more work would be needed to precisely date the crater. The team analyzed chemical and physical weathering rates to come up with its age estimate.

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Sun Continues Celestial Fireworks Display with Powerful Solar Flare
NEWS | 15 November 2025
The same region on the sun that’s responsible for this week’s stunning auroral display just erupted in another powerful solar flare early on Friday morningI agree my information will be processed in accordance with the Scientific American and Springer Nature Limited Privacy Policy . By providing your email address, you also consent to having the email address shared with third parties for those purposes. The same active region of the sun that produced stunning auroras that were visible as far south as Mexico earlier this week has erupted again. On Friday the sun released a powerful, X4.0-class solar flare—a parting blow from the dynamic active region 4274 (AR4274), which is rotating toward the far side of our star. Powerful solar outbursts, however, often continue throughout the initial years of the declining phase of the activity cycle.

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What Brain Science Reveals about Ethical Decline and Moral Growth
NEWS | 15 November 2025
Brain and psychology researchers are delving into how slides down the moral slope begin and what keeps them going. While in an fMRI scanner, study participants played a game in which they could enrich themselves by deceiving others. Yet from a neural standpoint, moral deterioration and moral escalation are like trains running on parallel tracks in opposite directions. And just as similar brain processes evoke moral and physical disgust, related neural pathways evaluate both morality and beauty. In a Maastricht University study, participants whose bosses showed ethical leadership engaged in fewer corrupt acts such as offering bribes.

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Three Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Can Really Fight Disease, according to the Strongest Science
NEWS | 15 November 2025
Multiple studies suggest that omega-3 supplements can reduce markers of chronic inflammation, Hu says, especially among people with underlying health conditions. The omega-3 supplements also were associated with a 40 percent reduction in heart attacks among those consuming the least fish. VITAMIN DEgg yolks contain some vitamin D. Masanyanka/Getty ImagesRigorous trials have debunked the once popular idea that vitamin D is a wonder drug for everything from breast cancer to diabetes. Most people in the VITAL study started with normal levels of vitamin D, Manson says. (The recommended daily vitamin D intake for adults is 600 IU.)

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Inside the Mysterious Smuggling of the El Ali Meteorite
NEWS | 15 November 2025
Known locally as Shiid-birood (“the iron rock”), the El Ali meteorite is 13.6 metric tons of iron and nickel. For centuries the El Ali meteorite, a brownish, pitted boulder some two meters wide and one meter tall, went unnoticed by anyone but locals. “We were, in retrospect, getting quite biased information” about both the removal of the El Ali meteorite and its export to China. Later in 2021 Gessler presented the El Ali meteorite to the Meteoritical Society, recognizing it as the third-largest meteorite discovered in Africa. These minerals lace the El Ali meteorite, residing inside tiny inclusions roughly the width of a human hair.

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Advances in Type 1 Diabetes Science and Tech
NEWS | 15 November 2025
Living with type 1 diabetes today is leaps and bounds easier than it was decades ago. This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. As the science races forward, the number of type 1 diabetes cases is surging. Science journalist Rachel Nuwer describes advances in genetic screening to identify kids at high risk of developing type 1 diabetes.

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Can Genetic Testing Predict Type 1 Diabetes? Experts Say Earlier Treatment Is Possible
NEWS | 15 November 2025
But the experience exemplified the growing interest in genetic risk tests for the disease, he says. This lack of representation is problematic for people of different ancestries because genetic risk factors differ across populations. “One of the biggest needs in the field is to understand what confers genetic risk in a much more diverse genetic ancestry,” Brusko says. Genetic risk tests for type 1 diabetes are inching closer to use in clinical care. In the U.S., genetic screening for type 1 diabetes is still done primarily in research environments.

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The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’
NEWS | 15 November 2025
Experiences in Insight Problem Solving,” by Jennifer Wiley and Amory H. Danek, in Nature Reviews Psychology, Vol. moments and compare the brain activity during them with the brain activity for analytical solutions. That part of the brain, the right anterior superior temporal gyrus, connects with many other brain regions. Our findings linking this specific area of the brain to the aha! Fortunately, insightful thinking is largely unconscious and does not tax attention or working memory the way analytical thinking does.

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The Quest to Build a Truly Intelligent Machine Helps Us Learn about Our Own Intelligence
NEWS | 15 November 2025
Researchers seek not simply artificial intelligence but artificial general intelligence, or AGI—a system with humanlike adaptability and creativity. Further, and invisibly to users, the core language system may itself be modular in some sense. “How does information go from the language system to logical reasoning systems or to social reasoning systems?” wonders neuroscientist Anna Ivanova of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Whether or not Franklin’s machine was truly conscious—Baars and Franklin themselves were dubious—it at least reproduced various quirks of human psychology. In this scheme, brain modules operate mostly independently, but every tenth of a second or so they have one of their staff meetings.

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Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences
NEWS | 15 November 2025
For decades François d’Adesky, a retired diplomat and civil servant who now lives in Brussels, spoke to no one about his near-death experience (NDE). An astounding 5 to 10 percent of the general population is estimated to have memories of an NDE, including somewhere between 10 and 23 percent of cardiac arrest survivors. “Now, clearly, we don’t question anymore the reality of near-death experiences,” says Charlotte Martial, a neuroscientist at the University of Liège in Belgium. But their findings are already challenging long-held beliefs about the dying brain, including that consciousness ceases almost immediately after the heart stops beating. Participants reported stronger sensory effects during their NDE, including the sensation of being disembodied, but stronger visual imagery during their drug trip.

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A New Picture of Schizophrenia Emerges, and So Do New Ways to Treat It
NEWS | 15 November 2025
They blocked the activity of dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain involved in motivation, learning, habit formation, and other processes. Despite growing evidence of schizophrenia being rooted in changes occurring during childhood, Kraepelin’s idea that schizophrenia is neurodegenerative persists—although it is hotly debated. In some patients, symptoms worsen over time, and this progression is often accompanied by tissue loss in the brain. Though effective at treating psychosis, dopamine blockers are no panacea for schizophrenia. Accordingly, Tebartz van Elst and others advocate using the term “autoimmune psychosis” to describe the ailments of these patients.