Since 1964, the Big Bang has been the context for interpreting all of astronomy. The theory has been troubled since 1997 by observations that don’t fit the model. That was the year that accelerating expansion was documented. The most recent observation is that All of Creation is rotating. We don’t even know how to calculate such a thing. The blame for our 60-year universal flight from reality is not in the physics, but in a philosophic idea that goes back to Copernicus.

Some of the greatest health problems in America are traceable to our 80-year-old bioweapons research program. These include, HIV, Lyme Disease, COVID-19, and the steady rise in cancer incidence. The US has by far the largest bioweapons program of any country in the world. We should all be screaming at our elected officials to END ALL BIOWEAPON RESEARCH. The source for most of the information below is a…

EU-funded researchers are developing AI-powered surveillance tools to protect the vast network of subsea cables and pipelines that keep the continent’s energy and data flowing. By Michael Allen Thousands of kilometres of cables and pipelines criss-cross Europe’s sea floors, carrying the gas, electricity and data that keep modern life running. Yet these critical links lie ... Read more The post Guarding Europe’s hidden lifelines: how AI could protect subsea infrastructure appeared first on Horizon Magazine Blog.

EU-funded researchers are turning to nature’s very own clean-up crew to tackle toxic industrial soil pollution. By Ali Jones Outside the mountain town of Sabiñánigo in northern Spain, an abandoned chemical factory stands on land still scarred by decades of Lindane production – a pesticide now banned worldwide – which left behind thousands of tonnes ... Read more The post Microbes on a mission to clean up Europe’s toxic soils appeared first on Horizon Magazine Blog.

Goldenberries taste like a tropical vacation, which is great. The problem? They grow like weeds, which is decidedly not great if you're trying to run a commercial farm. The small fruit, wrapped in its signature papery husk, has been cultivated in the Andes for centuries. But unlike its famous nightshade relatives (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants), goldenberry never quite made the leap to industrial agriculture.

Bones don't just grow longer. They build their own plumbing as they go, which is wild when you think about it. A new study out of China has tracked down the specific cells responsible for this hidden coordination act, and the answer involves cartilage doing a lot more than anyone suspected. The work centers on hypertrophic chondrocytes, a type of late-stage cartilage cell that's been known to contribute to bone formation.

On paper, American cities look dense, dynamic, and interconnected. But where people actually go each day tells a more fractured story. A new study from University College London researchers finds that every major U.S. city is shaped by hidden patterns of separation that divide residents by income, race, and geography. Using anonymized mobile phone data from millions of people across 383 cities, the team discovered a recurring structure: rings of isolation in affluent suburbs and pockets of segregation closer to urban cores.

For most polar bears, the future looks grim. More than two-thirds face extinction by 2050 as sea ice vanishes beneath their paws. But in southeast Greenland, a small population is living through what might be a preview of survival, adapting to conditions that resemble the devastating climate predicted for the rest of the Arctic by century's end. New research published in Mobile DNA reveals these bears are doing something remarkable at the molecular level: they appear to be rapidly rewriting sections of their own genetic code in response to rising temperatures.

A single dark tooth, nearly as long as your thumb, sat in a brown mudstone bed in North Dakota for 66 million years. When paleontologists finally pulled it from the Hell Creek Formation in 2022, they realized they were holding something that shouldn't exist: proof that mosasaurs, the ocean's apex predators, were also patrolling inland rivers. The discovery, published in…

Microdosing psychedelics delivers a measurable lift in mood and focus, but only on the day you take it. By the next morning, the benefits have evaporated. That's the core finding from a new international study tracking more than 1,400 people who microdose LSD or psilocybin. Researchers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan analyzed daily self-reports from participants across 49 countries, all logging their mental state each morning through the Microdose.me project.

Gonorrhoea is no longer a simple problem. It infects more than 82 million people globally each year, and the bacteria that cause the infection have been rapidly developing resistance to our existing drugs. This relentless evolution has created a quiet, but massive, public health crisis. The current standard treatment is a complicated two-step process, and doctors need a simpler, more effective weapon that can bypass the existing resistance.

Imagine a computer so powerful its essential control components take up an entire warehouse. Not just one room, but a massive space filled with dozens of optical tables. That's the reality for one of the most promising types of quantum machines right now. To scale up quantum computing from a few experimental bits to a practical machine with millions of qubits, scientists must first figure out how to shrink that warehouse down to the size of a postage stamp.

We tend to imagine election interference as a high-tech operation run by shadow agencies in bunkers. But in reality, influencing a national vote often comes down to something much simpler: the ability to pretend to be a neighbor. To spread rumors effectively on a community group chat, a bad actor cannot look like an outsider- they need a local phone number.

You remember those summer afternoons. The car windows were down. The radio was humming a perfect, catchy tune. Maybe it was a Fleetwood Mac jam from 1977. Or maybe it was a synth-pop groove from 1985. The song may have been about heartbreak, but the melody was light. The lyrics were simple. The whole experience felt undeniably bright. This breezy pop soundtrack once defined a huge slice of American music.

In planetary science, a fundamental rule dictates that time and proximity are killers. When a world orbits too closely to its star for billions of years, the stellar wind and radiation are supposed to strip it bare. All its atmosphere, all its volatile material, should be blasted away, leaving behind nothing but a scorched, desolate cinder. Yet, the exoplanet TOI-561 b flagrantly defies this logic.

The modern information landscape is a jungle of facts and lies. Every day, our feeds push claims about the world's biggest mysteries. Secret global power plays. Health advice "they" are hiding. It is tempting to grab a simple answer that makes sense of the chaos. But why does one person swallow a sketchy story while another hits the brakes? Intelligence matters less than you'd think.

The trillion-dollar world of socially responsible investing (SRI) is built on a high ideal: use capital to drive positive change. Many SRI funds specifically target companies with significant pollution or social problems-the so-called "dirty" firms-with the goal of acquiring a stake and forcing reforms. The strategy is simple: put your money into the bad company to make it good. However, a groundbreaking theoretical study from finance professors at the University of Rochester, Johns Hopkins University, and the Stockholm School of Economics suggests this noble approach may be critically flawed.

For a decade, the promise of probabilistic computing has been overshadowed by a single, physical bottleneck: the need for bulky, power-draining analog control circuits. This technology relies on hardware elements, called p-bits, that naturally fluctuate between 'one' and 'zero,' allowing systems to efficiently solve optimization and inference problems that baffle traditional computers. Yet, to fine-tune that chaotic flipping, p-bit designs have required a component known as a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC).

As we get older, our digestive systems lose their resilience. A meal we once enjoyed might become a source of discomfort. This isn't merely a consequence of age; it's often a sign that the intestinal epithelium, the single, crucial layer of cells lining the gut, is failing to repair itself. Normally, this lining completely regenerates every few days. When that vital process slows or stops, chronic inflammation sets in, leading to problems like leaky gut syndrome.

When the cosmos was a mere infant, 730 million years young, a massive star violently ended its life. This cataclysmic event, observed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, is now the earliest and most distant supernova ever directly detected. It pushes the boundary of stellar observation deep into the universe's past, breaking Webb's own previous record. Yet, the profound surprise wasn't its distance, but its familiarity.

Supercomputers, capable of performing a quintillion calculations per second, represent the cutting edge of modern science. Yet, despite this staggering power, their work is often hamstrung by a single, critical bottleneck: getting the right data to the right place at the right time. For applications running on government systems like the Frontier supercomputer, the speed of memory access is no longer a secondary concern; it is the main barrier to faster scientific breakthroughs.

Iowa's corn and soybean fields stretch to the horizon, an agricultural empire built on intensely managed dirt. For years, soil scientists assumed restoring degraded farmland would take generations, maybe centuries. The deep layers change too slowly, they thought. But new research from Iowa State University just blew that timeline apart. The fix? Narrow bands of native prairie plants tucked right into the crop fields.

Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia often produce nearly identical symptoms, creating a diagnostic nightmare that delays treatment and prolongs uncertainty for patients and families. Now engineers at Florida Atlantic University have developed an artificial intelligence system that can distinguish between the two conditions using only a simple, inexpensive electroencephalogram (EEG). The breakthrough could move complex dementia diagnosis out of specialized imaging centers and into community clinics.

As rivers across the Pacific Northwest face unprecedented climate stress, ecologists are turning to an unlikely hero: the North American beaver. Restoration projects that copy the beaver's dam-building work are spreading rapidly across the region, but a new comprehensive review warns that implementation is dramatically outpacing the research needed to verify when and where these techniques actually work. Published in Restoration Ecology, the review analyzed 161 separate studies on beaver-related restoration, or BRR.

A dense forest is a world defined by quiet. Yet beneath the canopy, a relentless war is waged. Every tree is engaged in a fierce, lifelong struggle for resources like sunlight, water, and soil nutrients. This competition dictates which individuals dominate and which ones surrender, ultimately determining the health and commercial value of the entire timber stand. New research from the southern United States is offering a detailed view of how this drama plays out among the valuable loblolly pine, and how forest managers can strategically intervene to rewrite the terms of engagement.