The Moon’s south pole hides a 4-billion-year-old secret

When astronauts touch down near the moon’s south pole in the coming years as part of NASA’s Artemis program, they may discover a remarkable archive of clues about how the moon was born. That possibility comes from new research led by Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna, a planetary scientist at the University of…

An interstellar visitor lights up the Red Planet’s sky

Between October 1 and 7, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express spacecraft turned their instruments toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed near Mars. Of all ESA spacecraft, the two Mars orbiters had the best view of this rare visitor. During its closest approach to the Red…

Keto diet shields young minds from early-life trauma

Researchers have shown that young rats fed a ketogenic diet — a diet with high fat and low carbohydrates — are protected from the lasting experience of pre-natal stress. This work, which needs to be confirmed in humans, is presented at the ECNP conference in Amsterdam An extensive body of…

Two common drugs could reverse fatty liver disease

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease is currently the most widespread liver disorder globally, affecting roughly one in three adults. It occurs when excess fat builds up inside liver cells, leading to serious liver damage and a higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease. Researchers at the University of Barcelona have…

Archaeologists uncover lost land bridge that may rewrite human history

Once connected stretches of land, now hidden beneath the sea, may have given early humans a way to move between what is today Türkiye and Europe, according to groundbreaking new research in this little-studied region. The study, recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, reveals the…

Scientists find gold hiding in food waste

Food waste can be far more valuable than the pile of scraps left behind after a meal. Scientists are uncovering surprising ways to turn discarded materials — from dried beet pulp to coconut fibers processed by millipedes — into useful resources. In four new studies published in ACS journals, researchers…

New simulation reveals how Earth’s magnetic field first sparked to life

Earth is lucky to have a magnetic field that shields the planet — and everything living on it — from dangerous cosmic radiation. Without this invisible barrier, Earth would be exposed to the same constant stream of charged particles that bombards other planets in our solar system, such as Mars,…

Closest alien civilization could be 33,000 light years away

According to new research presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, the nearest technological civilization in the Milky Way could be roughly 33,000 light years away. For such a civilization to exist at the same time as humanity, it would need to have lasted for at least 280,000 years…

Toscana, urne aperte per le elezioni regionali – Notizie – Ansa.it

 Urne aperte dalle 7 in Toscana per eleggere il presidente della Regione tra i tre candidati, Antonella Bundu (Toscana rossa), Eugenio Giani (centrosinistra) e Alessandro Tomasi (centrodestra), e i 40 consiglieri della Regione. Oggi si vota dalle 7 fino alle 23, domani dalle 7 alle 15. Sono circa tre milioni…

Quantum simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on laptops

Picture diving deep into the quantum realm, where unimaginably small particles can exist and interact in more than a trillion possible ways at the same time. It’s as complex as it sounds. To understand these mind-bending systems and their countless configurations, physicists usually turn to powerful supercomputers or artificial intelligence…