The immune system faces a delicate balancing act: it must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained enough to avoid attacking the body’s own tissues.
More than two decades ago, researchers identified a…

The immune system faces a delicate balancing act: it must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained enough to avoid attacking the body’s own tissues.
More than two decades ago, researchers identified a…

Quantum key distribution offers a fundamentally secure method of encryption, promising resilience even against attackers with unlimited computing power, and satellite links represent a crucial technology for extending its reach beyond the…
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Stargazers rejoice: The Leonids are here.
This annual meteor shower lights up the night sky every November and will soon peak on Nov. 16 and 17. Although they happen every year, the Leonids provide undeniably dramatic views and a…

A new genus and species of pseudosuchian archosaur has been identified from the fossil remains found in southern Brazil.
Tainrakuasuchus bellator. Image credit: Caio Fantini.
Tainrakuasuchus bellator lived in what is now Brazil during the…

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November 14, 2025
By: Tuhin Sarkar
Japan joins…

Re Anjana Ahuja’s column “Chimps are better at reasoning than we think” (Opinion, November 12), the findings remind us how thin the line is between human and animal intelligence.
The experiments described highlight that chimpanzees, much…

by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2025
Sierra Space announced completion of a series of critical pre-flight tests for its Dream Chaser spaceplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, marking progress toward the vehicle’s…

Blue Origin successfully launched its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’s company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and…

Researchers have discovered an impact crater formed on a granite mountain capped by a thick weathering crust in southern China. Located in Zhaoqing in China’s Guangdong province, the Jinlin crater is one of only about 200 identified craters…