New Study Widens the Hunt for Dark Photons

BYLINE: Perimeter Institute Newswise — A new paper published in Physical Review Letters reveals that a leading dark matter candidate—the hypothetical “dark photon”—would not have heated the early universe as…

Puma-headed vessel reveals ancient rituals at Peru’s Marcahuamachuco

Archaeologists working at the monumental site of Marcahuamachuco in northern Peru have uncovered new evidence of ceremonial activities carried out more than 1,000 years ago, including a distinctive pottery vessel…

Project Solara Tests Microsoft’s AI Device Strategy

At Build 2026, Microsoft previewed a genuinely good idea: Project Solara. Solara has three important layers: an operating system built for AI agents instead of apps; a governance standard that…

Will the world’s drying lands get relief from COP17 in Mongolia?

Starting on Monday, about 10,000 government negotiators, scientists, journalists and campaigners will gather at a purpose-built venue in a national park in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar to discuss how to stop…

Teens are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support – here’s how to keep kids safe

It’s 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about a friend issue, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and types,…

Evan Perkowski | Sabotage in the understory: garlic mustard’s late-season havoc on native plant photosynthesis – Functional Ecologists

In this blog post, author Evan Perkowski – a postdoctoral research associate at Texas Tech University – delves into his research article “The negative effects of an allelopathic invader on…

When is the next solar eclipse? Mark your calendar for an upcoming ‘ring of fire’ and the ‘eclipse of the century’

Yesterday (Aug.12), millions of people enjoyed a total solar eclipse as it swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain, while a partial solar eclipse was visible across much of…

Bandsman’s sword found in lake at Chiddingstone Castle

A sword believed to be around 200 years old has been discovered protruding from a lake at Chiddingstone Castle after hot, dry weather caused water levels to fall dramatically. The…

How advertising fuels high-carbon lifestyles

Helen Phillips’ book, ‘Hum’, is set in a dystopian near future, in a city suffering the effects of climate breakdown and with dire air quality. Robots (the Hums) press advertising…

Muon g-2 Experiment Places New Constraints on a Forbidden Property of Muons

BYLINE: Madeleine O’Keefe Newswise — A year after their final muon magnetic anomaly announcement, the Muon g-2 collaboration today announced a new measurement of a different property of the muon: its electric dipole moment. Based…