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Photo: EPA The simultaneous expiration of patent protection for semaglutide — the active ingredient in Ozempic — in the world’s two most populous countries is paving the way for low-cost versions of

Photo: Getty Images Scientists have found that microplastics can interfere with the body’s ability to fight infections, as tiny plastic particles may accumulate inside immune cells and disrupt their

Photo: Landkreis Prignitz Fragments of a medieval firearm discovered in Brandenburg may represent the oldest portable gunpowder weapon in Europe , according to a new analysis reported by Live Scien

Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso (UPV/EHU) and Judy Schmidt The moons of Jupiter may influence the giant planet’s powerful auroras by disturbing its magnet

Photo: freepik Belgian food ingredients producer Puratos and food-tech startup California Cultured plan to bring lab-grown cocoa chocolate to commercial production by the end of 2026 . The announc

Photo: Illustrative image of a rod-shaped bacterium / Getty Images Researchers in the United States have discovered living bacteria and biofilms inside kidney stones made of calcium oxalate. This is

Photo: NASA/Dan Gallagher Scientists have found some of the most convincing evidence yet that life could have formed on Mars. The discovery comes from organic molecules detected in rock samples from

Photo: Getty Images Archaeologists have discovered that more than 7,000 years ago, people in what is now Sweden buried their dead dressed in garments decorated with fur and feathers. A new soil-anal

Photo: ESO/L. Calçada One of the largest stars in the universe is doing something unusual, and scientists are still debating what it means. WOH G64, a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is one of

Photo: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Lab-grown brain organoids managed to balance an unstable vertical pole, demonstrating how living neural circuits can be guided to so

Photo: David Matzliach, Cambridge Archaeological Unit / © University of Cambridge Several people’s remains lay in the burial. Archaeologists have discovered a Viking-age burial in England containin

Photo: chinadaily China tests rocket and crewed spacecraft for Moon missions, reports China Daily. The space mission On February 11, a demonstration test flight of the Long March-10 rocket and th

Photo: expert Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX has shifted its near-term priorities from colonizing Mars to building what he calls a “self-sustaining city on the Moon,” citing the lunar objective

The Medtronic Hugo robotic surgical system at the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, November 8, 2024. Photo: Getty Images At the QEQM clinic in England, the Hugo robot has operated

Photo: clickpetroleoegas Crocodile that hunted dinosaurs: how science brought one of the deadliest ancient predators back to life Imagine a creature as long as a school bus, with jaws capable of ea

Photo: Getty Images An asteroid about 60 meters in diameter could hit the Moon in December 2032, with scientists currently estimating the probability at around 4%, according to Science Alert . Whil

Photo: scitechdaily Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed an innovative spray that can stop bleeding and heal wounds within seconds. The new p

Photo: Xiangtong Lei & Sihang Zhang Fossils from China reveal complex visual system in 518-million-year-old vertebrates Some of the earliest known vertebrates had four fully functional eyes.

Photo: ESO, VISTA, NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Emerson (ESO); Acknowledgment: CASU The Helix Nebula, located in the constellation Aquarius. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have obta

Photo: BBC Scientists uncover the world’s oldest hand stencil in Indonesia Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known hand stencil in human history on the Indonesian island of Muna , southe

Photo: getty images American and European scientists have found no evidence of a link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism in children, debunking claims made by U.S. President Donald

Photo: BBC NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy have announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030. The system is expected to become a key element of the Artemis program and futur

Photo: Superintendency of Caltanissetta/Sicilian Government Archaeologists in Sicily have discovered a unique writing tool depicting the god Dionysus, estimated to be around 2,500 years old. Accordi

Photo: NASA Jupiter will shine at its brightest on January 10. This weekend, skywatchers on Earth will have a prime opportunity to observe Jupiter as it appears brighter than at any other time of t

Photo: MPIfR/N.Sulzenauer/ALMA Scientists discover impossibly hot galaxy cluster just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang Astronomers have identified a giant galaxy cluster that challenges curre

Photo: Karen L. Baab and National Museum of Ethiopia Estimated to be 1.5 million years old Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative using 1.5-million-year-old teeth an

Photo: Marc Miskin/UPenn Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest autonomous, programmable robot, tens of thousands of times s

Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Naturalis Biodiversity Center It is a rare species of ground-dwelling pigeon. One of the last living relatives of the extinct dodo bird has been spotted several times on th

Photo: State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York have, for the first time, examined cloud tops in unprecedented detail using a new lidar system,

Photo: Sachin Patil Archaeologists have discovered a unique circular stone labyrinth in Solapur, Maharashtra, believed to be the largest of its kind in India. The structure, featuring 15 concentric

Photo: NASA A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission challenges the long-held idea that Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, hosts a global subsurface ocean beneath its icy crust. Researchers con

Photo: Keck Institute for Space Studies/Chuck Carter Uranus and Neptune are technically giant planets, but they are commonly referred to as ice giants because of their composition. Compared with J

Photo: NTNU University Museum An unusual Viking Age burial discovered in Trøndelag, Norway, has presented archaeologists with a historical mystery. The grave contained the remains of a woman, with s

Photo: The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Schmidt Ocean Institute Sponges are among the simplest and seemingly most harmless animals on Earth, but a newly discovered species found in Antarcti

Photo: Craig Williams/The Trustees of the British Museum Researchers have announced what they describe as the oldest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, discovered at a 400,000-year-old archae

Photo: Getty Images The Lord Howe stick insect ( Dryococelus australis ), long believed to have gone extinct in the 1930s, has been rediscovered on a volcanic sea stack 23 kilometres from Lord Howe

Photo: Jingmai O'Connor A prehistoric bird that lived on Earth 120 million years ago has left scientists with a medical mystery. Researchers discovered 800 small stones in its throat, which almo

Photo: Barry Isralewitz et al., 2025 A new virtual brain created by a supercomputer will help scientists study how this vital organ functions. The supercomputer has produced the most realistic and d

Photo: NASA A new sunspot group, AR 4294-4296 , has appeared on the Sun, with a total size comparable to the spot that triggered the most powerful geomagnetic storm in history, the Carrington Even

Photo: usiter.com Researchers explained the possible purpose and controversial theories of its origin. the great sphinx of giza, located near cairo, remains one of the most mysterious structures in

Photo: ESO Clocks run faster on mars due to weaker gravity and the planet’s eccentric orbit. Physicists at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time calcul

Photo: nature.com NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered light fragments of kaolinite in Jezero Crater that could only have formed under a prolonged rainy climate. Scientists compared these Martia

Photo: Bobby Howe/Facebook New observations reveal that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — discovered on July 1, 2025 — shows periodic brightness changes every 16.16 hours . Scientists believe the effe

Photo: terazus.com Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have uncovered the ancient city of Semiyarka, dating back to 1600 BCE, revealing a vast urban center that challenges previous ideas about Bronze Age s

Photo: Comments.ua An international team of scientists has found that Mars may have maintained life-friendly conditions far longer than previously believed. By analyzing data from the Curiosity rove