Who Benefits from Tariffs? Research Reframes Them as Redistribution
A University of Chicago Booth study treats tariffs as a wealth-redistribution mechanism rather than purely as trade policy.
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South African Fossils Push Homo erectus Back 200,000 Years
Newly described fossils from Drimolen Cave suggest Homo erectus emerged in southern Africa roughly 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.
The Aerobiome: The Overlooked Ecosystem in the Sky
A new opinion piece argues that the atmosphere's living particles—the aerobiome—are a crucial but understudied link between distant ecosystems.
Deep-sea 'golden tree' coral forces creation of new family
A bright yellow, branching coral found on Costa Rican seamounts is so genetically distinct that scientists placed it in a newly created family.
Nationwide Map Predicts Childhood Lead Exposure Risk by Neighborhood
A new risk score uses housing age and poverty data to estimate childhood lead exposure for every U.S. neighborhood, validated against blood lead levels in 11 states.
Record El Niño Puts Great Barrier Reef at Risk of Ecological Shift
The strongest-known El Niño threatens to push the Great Barrier Reef past a tipping point, leaving researchers unsure whether the World Heritage Area can be saved.
Pond Protist Rewrites Rules of the Genetic Code
An accidental discovery shows a single-celled organism can reassign two stop signals to different amino acids, overturning a near-universal biological assumption.
Forest Fire Threatens Colombian Tourist Town Villa de Leyva
Officials reported a forest fire burning near the popular Colombian town of Villa de Leyva on Sunday.
Gravity May Not Explain Quantum Weirdness, New Search Suggests
A new experiment deep under Gran Sasso mountain has tested a decades-old idea that gravity causes quantum collapse, with results that suggest otherwise.
European Children Born Today Face Twice as Much Extreme Fire Weather
A new study projects that a child born in Europe in 2025 will experience over three additional years of extreme fire weather compared with someone born in 1950 under current climate policies.
Indonesia’s firefighting push falls short as haze persists
A senior official says the country is throwing every available resource at forest fires, yet containment remains elusive.
Trump's 'super intelligence' remark highlights AI term confusion
The president's push to rename AI 'super intelligence' collides with a term that has long meant different things to different researchers.
Endangered Black Robin Wins New Zealand's Bird of the Year Vote
A record turnout of voters selected the critically endangered black robin, underscoring public interest in the species' fate.
Z Bosons Show Quantum Entanglement in Higgs Decays at CERN
Physicists report strong evidence that Z bosons produced in Higgs boson decays become quantum entangled, confirming nonlocality under extreme conditions.
18th-century British food was complex, multicultural, and flavorful
A new look at historical cooking challenges the enduring stereotype of bland British cuisine.
New NIST Measurement of Gravity Constant Deepens 225-Year-Old Puzzle
A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a value for the gravitational constant that disagrees with another leading result, keeping a fundamental physics mystery alive.
Perfectly Aligned Systems May Be More Fragile, Physicists Find
New research from Northwestern suggests that a little disorder can make complex networks like power grids and ecosystems more resilient.
Photonic 'Legos' Stack Thin Films for Better Optical Circuits
A new assembly approach treats functional thin films like building blocks, letting photonic chips combine materials that cannot do everything alone.