6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (781+ words) Plants can take in nutrients directly from atmospheric dust through their leaves, not just through their roots, according to a new study. The research turns a passing dust event into a direct source of nourishment and changes how plant nutrition…...

8+ hour, 38+ min ago  (830+ words) Natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10, 000 years, far more than scientists had previously recognized. The study reframes recent human evolution as an active process driven by changing diets, diseases, and ways of living. Across 15, 836 people…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (857+ words) A long-standing puzzle asks a simple question: why do different body parts look related despite serving very different roles? Think about structures like fins, limbs, or even the bones in your spine. They follow a pattern. They repeat, but not…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (861+ words) A new study has found that most rare earth deposits " sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy technologies " sit above ancient buried collision zones. These zones formed where tectonic plates once collided and sank deep beneath continents. That…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (814+ words) Groundwater stored near the world's coastlines supports drinking water supplies for huge numbers of people. A new study shows that this resource is coming under increasing pressure. Many coastal areas are seeing major shifts in groundwater levels that could allow…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago  (866+ words) Lead is at the center of one of Earth's strangest mysteries. A big chunk of it is gone. Not just misplaced, but missing in a way that has puzzled scientists for decades. Lead is more than just a heavy metal....

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1089+ words) A volcano in southeastern Iran has nudged upward by about 3. 5 inches (9 centimeters) in 10 months. This might sound like a small rise but it has big significance. A new study used satellite data to spot the change and argues that pressure…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (716+ words) A new study has found that gas dissolving back into magma can pressurize large volcanic systems faster than gas escaping from them. That reversal accelerates the path toward eruption, tightening the window between deep recharge and surface failure. In a…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (910+ words) For a long time, survival came down to one big win. Imagine a group of early humans bringing down a massive elephant. That single hunt could feed everyone for weeks, maybe even months. Life felt steady in a strange way,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1102+ words) Some volcanoes don't just erupt. They blow their tops so completely that the ground collapses into a broad crater called a caldera." These are the supervolcano systems often mentioned alongside Yellowstone and Toba. They are rare, but when they erupt,…...