Hittite seals and tablets among new finds at Kayalıpınar

Archaeologists excavating the Hittite settlement of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye’s Sivas’ Yıldızeli district have unearthed a trove of cuneiform tablets and seal impressions. The Hittites were an Anatolian people that established…

Vaccine death and side effects database relies on unverified reports – and Trump officials and right-wing media are applying it out of context

Trump officials intend to link 25 child deaths to COVID-19 vaccines, according to reporting from The Washington Post. These findings will reportedly be discussed during the Sept. 18-19, 2025, meeting…

When Machines Become Our Moral Loophole

Summary: A large study across 13 experiments with over 8,000 participants shows that people are far more likely to act dishonestly when they can delegate tasks to AI rather than…

Scientists find cell surface sugar that slows pancreatic cancer in mice—and it’s detectable in patient blood samples

Antithrombin (red) in human pancreatic cells. Credit: Salk Institute Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers, and its incidence is climbing. Because it is typically asymptomatic…

AI-driven smart jig can detect micro-level defects in just 2.79 seconds

Observations shed light on fragmentation code and growth mystery of high-mass star formation

Clearwing butterflies are cool! Impact of wing transparency on heating capacities along altitudinal gradients in tropical butterflies  – Functional Ecologists

In this week’s blog post we’re getting transparent about temperature regulatory processes in clear wing butterflies! Violine Ossola and team explore the sensitivities around thermal regulation in the neotropical tribe…

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror.…

Calling deaths ‘preventable’ can obscure barriers to health care access and shift blame to individuals

Each year in the U.S., tens of thousands of deaths are categorized as “preventable” — meaning, in theory, they did not need to happen. A missed cancer screening, a fatal…

Single device amplifies signals while shielding qubits from unwanted noise

Optical micrograph of the traveling-wave parametric amplifier and converter chip. The periodic square structures along the central transmission line are Josephson junctions, while the larger rectangular structures are the capacitors…