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Using the Hubble telescope, a University of the Basque Country team has tracked a ten-sided wind pattern at Saturn’s south pole that has sharpened since 2023.

UC San Diego researchers show that RNA polymerase from E. coli transcribes a synthetic eight-letter DNA just as accurately as life’s natural four-letter code.

After nearly eight years, the ESA-JAXA probe BepiColombo has dropped its propulsion module and begun the delicate arrival phase at Mercury. The manoeuvre was run from Darmstadt.

The diabetes and weight-loss drug semaglutide extended lifespan by nearly 100 days in old female mice and slowed several hallmarks of ageing, a new Nature study from Berkeley reports.

Vesper bats carry two separate gene systems for making antibodies — an arrangement never before seen in a mammal, and one that may explain their tolerance of viruses.

On the night of September 4, India’s GSLV-F17 rocket is set to deploy the EOS-05 Earth observer – the country’s first imaging satellite in a geosynchronous orbit. Outcome still open at press time.

An ultrathin, mechanically strained film of ruthenium dioxide reveals altermagnetism – an exotic magnetic state that could enable low-power spintronic chips. Published on 27 August 2026 in Science Advances.

A Caltech study in Nature reveals a huge temperature divide deep inside Mars: the southern half runs 200 to 400 degrees hotter than the north and is partly molten.

IBM and the University of Chicago report a quantum computation that classical simulations reportedly cannot reproduce in practice – using 70 error-corrected logical qubits. What it means and why skepticism is warranted.

At Berlin’s Charité, a CAR-T cell therapy sharply lowered disease activity in six people with severe rheumatoid arthritis; three reached drug-free remission.