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A streak of light may not be a black hole fleeing its galaxy after all

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​science news​​​ By Liz Kruesi A trail of starlight thought to possibly indicate a runaway supermassive black hole may be something much more mundane: a spiral galaxy seen edge on, a new study finds. →

Salty water may have flowed near Mars’ equator as recently as 400,000 years ago

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​science news​​​ By Allison Gasparini Crusts, cracks and other geologic features on sand dunes near the Martian equator are leading researchers to believe there may have been water there much more →

For the first time, astrophysicists have caught a star eating a planet

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​science news​​​ By James R. Riordon A dusty belch is all that remains of a planet that was gobbled up by a star about 12,000 light-years away. It marks the first time anyone has seen a star in the →

New discoveries are bringing the world of pterosaurs to life

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​science news​​​ By Sid Perkins In an eat-or-be-eaten world, flight conveys a bevy of benefits. A creature that takes to the third dimension can more easily escape earthbound predators, dine off a →

A 2,200-year-old poop time capsule reveals secrets of the Andean condor

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science news By Jake Buehler For over 2,000 years, Andean condors have been nesting — and pooping — in the same cliffside grotto high in the Andes. This gargantuan pile of guano is now providing an →

Mouse hair turns gray when certain stem cells get stuck

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science news By Tina Hesman Saey Hair might go gray when stem cells with wanderlust have their travels interrupted. Stem cells involved in making the pigment that gives hair its color behave much →

Neuroscientists decoded people’s thoughts using brain scans

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science news By Laura Sanders Like Dumbledore’s wand, a scan can pull long strings of stories straight out of a person’s brain — but only if that person cooperates. This “mind-reading” feat, →

Satellite data reveal nearly 20,000 previously unknown deep-sea mountains

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​science news​​​ By Katherine Kornei The number of known mountains in Earth’s oceans has roughly doubled. Global satellite observations have revealed nearly 20,000 previously unknown seamounts, →

Black holes resolve paradoxes by destroying quantum states

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science news By Lisa Grossman MINNEAPOLIS — Don’t try to do a quantum experiment near a black hole — its mere presence ruins all quantum states in its vicinity, researchers say. The finding comes →

Fentanyl deaths have spiked among U.S. children and teens

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science news By Aimee Cunningham Fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid, is killing a growing number of children and teens in the United States. More than 1,500 kids under the age of 20 died from →

A vegan leather made of dormant fungi can repair itself

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science news By Jude Coleman Imagine if a ripped leather jacket could repair itself instead of needing to be replaced. This could one day be a reality, if the jacket is fashioned from fungus, →

A sapphire Schrödinger’s cat shows that quantum effects can scale up

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover In keeping with the grand tradition of tubby cats, a newly created quantum “cat” is particularly massive — at least for the quantum realm. Scientists put a jiggling →

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