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In a first, JWST detected starlight from distant galaxies with quasars

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​science news​​​ By Lisa Grossman CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — For the first time, astronomers have detected starlight from distant galaxies that host extremely bright supermassive black holes called quasars. →

DNA has revealed the origin of this giant ‘mystery’ gecko

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science news By Natalie van Hoose A lizard called Delcourt’s giant gecko has long been one of herpetology’s biggest mysteries — literally. Presumed extinct, the animal is by far the largest gecko →

New fossils from Patagonia may rewrite the history of duck-billed dinosaurs

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​science news​​​ By Jake Buehler Fossils from the southern tip of Chile are adding a wrinkle to researchers’ understanding of how duck-billed dinosaurs conquered the Cretaceous world. Duck-billed →

Why is the North Atlantic breaking heat records?

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science news By Sid Perkins In the past few weeks, sea-surface temperatures in some parts of the North Atlantic Ocean have soared to record heights. The anomalous warming is occurring in a large →

One photon is all it takes to kick off photosynthesis

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science news By Emily Conover For photosynthesis, one photon is all it takes. Only a single particle of light is required to spark the first steps of the biological process that converts light into →

Jupiter-sized planets are very rare around the least massive stars

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science news By Ken Croswell If you’re looking to visit a gas giant planet in another solar system — or if you’re simply a science fiction writer who needs such a world for your story — you’d better →

China’s fastest yet quantum computer still way behind US

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asia times by Jeff Pao China’s fastest quantum computer is set for launch but the machine won’t be anywhere near the world’s fastest, underscoring China’s quantum laggardness vis-a-vis the US. Known →

Psychoanalysing Succession’s tense finale – a Freudian suspension of pleasure

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the conversation Sigmund Freud, the 20th century titan of psychoanalysis, would doubtless have plenty to say about the Roy family, had the characters ever plopped down on his treatment couch. The →

Homo naledi may have dug cave graves and carved marks into cave walls

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science news By Bruce Bower An extinct, small-brained hominid known as Homo naledi intentionally buried its dead in two underground cave chambers 160,000 years or more before the earliest evidence of →

Complex supply chains may have appeared more than 3,000 years ago

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​science news​​​ By Bruce Bower Long-distance supply chains, vulnerable to disruptions from wars and disease outbreaks, may have formed millennia before anyone today gasped at gas prices or gawked at →

Weird black holes may hold secrets of the early universe

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science news By Ashley Yeager Our galaxy’s heart is a gluttonous monster. Like the mythical Kammapa of the Sotho people of southern Africa, the Milky Way’s central, supermassive black hole has →

Japan’s fusion start-ups starting to roll in money

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​asia times​​​ by Scott Foster TOKYO – Kyoto Fusioneering is raising big new money from domestic venture capital funds, banks and energy, engineering and trading companies, the latest indication that →

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