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A team led from the University of Birmingham re-analyzed 45 iron-poor stars and the 64 planets orbiting them and found no statistically significant correlation between a star's chemistry and what its…
A team led from the University of Tokyo has found a giant planet that circles a hot star every 2.17 days on an orbit still stretched into an oval rather than round. Noriharu Watanabe and colleagues…
The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Neptune Medical's Triton 1, a robotic system for flexible endoscopy, for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures throughout the colon. The Burlingame,…
Lineage tracing in mouse embryos supports a picture in which the brain grows from two separate founder cell populations rather than one, Rayyan T. Jokhai, Kyle M. Loh and colleagues at Stanford…
A thin film that conducts almost no heat while staying rigid has been measured by researchers at North Carolina State University. Ziqi Wang, Jun Liu and colleagues report that its thermal…
Helpfeel Inc., the Kyoto company behind the screenshot-sharing service Gyazo, said on Sept. 16, 2026, that an intruder had exploited a flaw in its image upload server and taken about 23.62 million…
Astronomers using the NASA and JAXA observatory XRISM have measured gas pouring off a giant star and falling onto the small, collapsed star that orbits it, at about 335,000 miles per hour. The team,…
Alibaba's DAMO Academy and the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine have published in Science a single artificial intelligence model that reads an abdominal CT scan for…
Across several large ensembles of climate models, a warm North Atlantic leaves the tropical Pacific slightly warmer rather than cooler, according to a study published Sept. 18, 2026 in npj Climate…
Soil carbon and the mass of microbes living in soil generally rise together where forests are planted, but how long the gains keep building depends on what the land was before, Zexin Meng of Xi'an…
The Antarctic ozone hole in 2025 was one of the least severe in more than two decades, the World Meteorological Organization reported in its annual ozone bulletin, published Sept. 16. It was the…
Intracranial recordings from six patients have revealed that two neighboring regions of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a brain area long thought to weigh costs against benefits, do not signal…