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The XENON Collaboration reports that it has measured low-energy neutrinos from the Sun, using a detector built to search for dark matter. The result rejects the background-only hypothesis at a…
Researchers at Pesticide Action Network organizations estimate that 402 million to 433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning (sudden poisonings that were not deliberate) occur…
Ocean heat extremes and spells of unusually low ocean productivity each raise the odds of a very poor fishing year in a given place, and the odds rise furthest when the two arrive together, according…
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot ended a spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3:29 p.m. EDT on Sept. 1 after installing a new navigation reflector on the…
MIT researchers report that three short peptides stayed intact for weeks in a solution of about 98 percent sulfuric acid and folded into a defined three-dimensional shape instead of breaking down.…
CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team, working with U.S. and European law enforcement, disrupted the Sality botnet on Aug. 31, 2026, cutting off the machines it had infected from the…
Two reference models of Venus's atmosphere disagree with 18 years of spacecraft temperature measurements by more than 10 K, or 10 degrees Celsius, according to a paper posted to the arXiv preprint…
Researchers have identified 36 genes in which rare mutations sharply increase the risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic tic disorders, up from four previously known. The study was…
Extended courses of the antiviral Paxlovid did not improve long COVID symptoms compared with placebo, according to results from the NIH-funded RECOVER-VITAL trial released on August 31. The paper was…
A survey of 39,761 Ontario students found that those who used generative AI for emotional support were about twice as likely to meet a clinical threshold for emotional problems as students who did…
Ninety percent of the Arthrobacter bacterial strains found in Antarctic soils occur nowhere else on Earth, according to a study published on August 31 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
The skull of the thylacine, the marsupial predator hunted to extinction in Tasmania in 1936, combines features found in no living meat-eating mammal, according to a study published Aug. 31 in Nature…