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Daily vitamin C did not slow the growth of abnormal blood cell clones in people with precancerous blood conditions or early-stage blood cancers, the EVITA trial reported in the journal Cancer. Its…
Sand hoppers on a southern California beach dig up to 10.38 kilograms of dry sand per square meter per day, according to field measurements published Sept. 16 in the journal JGR: Earth Surface. The…
Alibaba's Qwen team published the weights of a new image model, Qwen-Image-2.1, on Sept. 20. The team posted the files on Hugging Face and ModelScope under a license that allows research and…
Europeans born in 2025 are projected to spend 3.2 more years of their lives under extreme fire weather than those born in 1950, an increase of 84%, if the world stays on its current climate policies.…
A palm-sized drone has flown through a pitch-dark room, followed the contours of walls and mapped an enclosed space using nothing but a 3.2-gram set of artificial whiskers. Researchers at Delft…
A computer made of DNA strands ran 10 programs, among them an addition of 25-bit numbers that its authors call "a 100-bit computation." The work was published Sept. 16 in Nature. Nothing drives the…
About 500 iron bars weighing an estimated 1,035 kilograms, dug out of a gravel pit beside the Danube in Upper Austria, are the largest mass find of prehistoric iron bars so far known in Europe, Peter…
Ol Doinyo Lengai, an active volcano in northern Tanzania, swelled without erupting between March 2022 and August 2023, and a team led by D. Sarah Stamps of Virginia Tech reports that the best…
Researchers at two Chinese Academy of Sciences observatories have proposed a way for a single laser ranging station on the ground to read a satellite's identity and its orientation at the same time,…
The Roscosmos Progress 96 cargo spacecraft docked to the space-facing port of the International Space Station's Poisk module at 9:44 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Sept. 19, NASA's space station blog…
A team led by researchers at Université Paris-Saclay has dated the iron-rich crusts that cap a plateau in northern Malawi, finding a continuous span of mineral ages running from 397 million years…
Water enclosed by an ocean eddy leaks back out after only a few days when other eddies are nearby, according to an open-access study published Sept. 19 in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. Eddies…