Ancient amphibians as big as alligators died in mass mortality event in Triassic Wyoming

Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Aaron M. Kufner of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S., and colleagues. source https://phys.org/news/2025-04-ancient-a...

Trump Administration Freezes Critical Title X Funding for 16 Organizations

The Trump Administration is withholding millions of dollars allocated for family planning services from more than a dozen organizations. Enacted in 1970, the federal family planning program known as Title X makes millions of dollars available to clinics that provide health care services...

Giving up on photosynthesis: How a borrowed bacterial gene allows some marine diatoms to live on a seaweed diet

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor. Gregory Jedd of Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore, and colleagues report these findings...

ICE Admits ‘Administrative Error’ In Deporting Maryland Man to El Salvador

President Donald Trump’s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison but is arguing against returning him to federal custody in the United States because of alleged gang ties. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] U.S....

Three-site Kitaev chain enhances stability of Majorana zero modes

An international research team led by QuTech has realized a three-site Kitaev chain using semiconducting quantum dots coupled by superconducting segments in a hybrid InSb/Al nanowire. When comparing two-and three-site chains within the same device, they observed that extending the chain to...

We Must Stop Blaming Law Firms Attacked by President Donald Trump

This past month, President Donald Trump issued executive orders targeting the business of several big law firms and launched investigations into the human resource practices of many more. Some have rushed to condemn the law firms that were the victims of the President’s recent threats...

JEE Main 2025 Session 2 Begins On April 2: Paper Pattern, Key Guidelines

JEE Main 2025 Session 2: The exams for Paper 1 (BE/BTech) will be held on April 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8, while Paper 2 (BArch/BPlan) will be conducted on April 9. source https://www.ndtv.com/education/jee-main-2025-session-2-begins-on-april-2-paper-pattern-key-guidelines-80488...

Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end

The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy. source https://phys.org/news/2025-03-farewell-gaia-spacecraft.ht...

Trump’s Promised ‘Liberation Day’ of Tariffs Is Upon Us. Here’s What It Could Mean for You

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” — a moment when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods. The details of Trump’s next round of import taxes are still sketchy. Most economic analyses...

Iran Has Rejected Direct Negotiations With the U.S. in Response to Trump’s Letter

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s president said Sunday that the Islamic Republic rejected direct negotiations with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program, offering Tehran’s first response to a letter President Donald Trump sent to the country’s supreme leader. President...

Delhi Box Bed Murder Case Cracked, 2 Arrested, Say Police

A day after a woman's decomposed body was found in a box bed in a flat in Delhi's Shahdara, police said they have cracked the case with the arrest of the house's owner and one of his accomplices. source https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/shahdara-vivek-vihar-womans-body-found-delhi-box-bed-...

21-Year-Old Man Rams Car Into Cab On Mumbai Flyover; 2 Killed

A taxi driver and a female passenger were killed when a rashly driven car collided with a black-and-yellow cab on a flyover in Dadar area of Mumbai on Saturday, police said. source https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/21-year-old-man-rams-car-into-cab-on-mumbai-flyover-2-killed-80421...

Palladium-liquid gallium catalyst transforms chemical manufacturing, boosting speed, safety and sustainability

A major breakthrough in liquid catalysis is transforming how essential products are made, making the chemical manufacturing process faster, safer and more sustainable than ever before. source https://phys.org/news/2025-03-palladium-liquid-gallium-catalyst-chemical.ht...

A Texas Bill Claims to Clarify Near-Total Abortion Bans. Advocates Say It Won’t

Texas has one of the strictest abortion restrictions in the country, banning abortion in nearly all situations with very limited exceptions. Since the near-total ban went into effect, several women in the state have shared stories and filed lawsuits, saying that they were denied critical...

Nanoscale ripples provide key to unlocking thin material properties in electronics

When materials are created on a nanometer scale—just a handful of atoms thick—even the thermal energy present at room temperature can cause structural ripples. How these ripples affect the mechanical properties of these thin materials can limit their use in electronics and other key systems. source...

A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how animals spread through geographic regions. Their results are published in the journal Science. source...

Video: Watch wind whirl from the sun

Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission is the first to capture on camera this wind flying out from the sun in a twisting, whirling motion. The solar wind particles spiral outward as if caught in a cyclone...

Arctic sea ice hits lowest peak in satellite record, says US agency

This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said Thursday, as Earth continues to swelter under the mounting effects of human-driven climate change. source https://phys.org/news/2025-03-arctic-sea-ice-lowe...

Breaking Down the Devastating Ending of Weak Hero Class 1

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Weak Hero Class 1 and the Weak Hero Class webtoon When Weak Hero Class 1 was originally released in late 2022, the violent, coming-of-age series about a group of classmates banding together against their bullies became a word-of-mouth hit...

Top Trump Officials Defend Signal Chat in Testimony to Congress

Two of the Trump Administration’s top intelligence officials defended the use of a group chat for high-level military planning during a contentious Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday, as Democrats questioned the national security implications of discussing sensitive war...

Why Climate Change Is Making Greenland More Desirable to Trump

On Thursday, Second Lady Usha Vance will be visiting Greenland along with a U.S. delegation. The trip, the White House says, is meant to “celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity” with Vance scheduled to visit historical sites, learn about Greenlandic heritage, and attend Greenland’s...

Using algorithms to help find life on icy ocean worlds

Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, may harbor extraterrestrial life in the form of microbes. But detecting it could be a challenge because missions to ocean worlds have relied on probes, not landers. source...

Eminent Gandhian Krishna Bharati Passes Away At 92

Krishna Bharati, a Gandhian and daughter of noted freedom fighter late Pasala Krishna Murthy, passed away here on Sunday. She was 92. source https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/eminent-gandhian-krishna-bharati-passes-away-at-92-79932...

Peer review is meant to prevent scientific misconduct: But it has its own problems

In 2023, an academic journal, the Annals of Operations Research, retracted an entire special issue because the peer review process for it was compromised. source https://phys.org/news/2025-03-peer-meant-scientific-misconduct-problems.ht...

Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, and More. Here’s the Full List and What That Means

President Donald Trump has made good on his promise of revoking security clearance for former President Joe Biden. Issued late on Friday night, a memo titled “Rescinding Security Clearances and Access to Classified Information from Specified Individuals,” laid out Trump’s instructions...