Sounding the 6,000-year-old shell trumpets of Catalonia
Archaeologists have played shell trumpets from Neolithic Catalonia, revealing they were highly effective for long-distance communication and may have also been used as musical instruments.
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Dead stars aren’t so dead after all: The hidden force inflating white dwarfs
Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and change their orbital behavior. This leads the stars to…
Trump pick for NASA chief Jared Isaacman pledges to move space shuttle Discovery to Houston, lawmaker says
Jared Isaacman, President Trump’s pick to lead NASA, is on board with moving the space shuttle Discovery to Houston, according to one of the senators behind the controversial plan.
The International Space Station Marks 25 Years of Continuous Human Presence
On Nov. 2, 2025, NASA honored 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station. What began as a fragile framework of modules has evolved into a springboard for international cooperation, advanced scientific research and technology demonstrations, the…
Structural racism and cultural misunderstanding compound grief for Black British, Black Caribbean communities: Study
Inequities in how bereavement is experienced and supported among people of Black British and Black Caribbean heritage in England has been revealed in a new study led by the University of Bristol. The research, published in Death Studies, calls for…
Social media marketing falls flat as a signal of quality, research finds
Research published in Information Systems Research finds that social media marketing (SMM) does little to help high-quality firms stand apart from competitors. Instead, it often pushes companies of all quality levels toward similar spending and pricing strategies, blurring the very…
When ‘hearing’ means ‘understanding’: The case of the verb kikoyu in pre-modern Japanese
A new study draws on a rigorous analysis of the Corpus of Historical Japanese to trace the semantic evolution of the verb “kikoyu” from the 8th century to the 20th century. This verb, which initially referred to unintentional hearing, came…