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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach.

in Scientific American on 2026-02-07 13:00:00 UTC.

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What ‘6-7,’ demons and The Big Bang Theory tell us about prime numbers

Prime numbers have fascinated humankind for generations—here are three of the most intriguing primes

in Scientific American on 2026-02-07 12:00:00 UTC.

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The science of how Olympian Lindsey Vonn can ski on injured knees

The decorated Olympic skier has had numerous injuries and a partial knee replacement but still plans to go for the gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics

in Scientific American on 2026-02-07 11:30:00 UTC.

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What watching the Super Bowl does to your health

Watching sporting events like the Super Bowl can influence our brains and bodies—and not always in a good way

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Weekend reads: Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted; a paper mill detector for cancer research articles; infant opioid poisoning report flagged

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Spanish court rules researcher plagiarized colleague, orders withdrawal of works
• Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit
• Lancet flags long-scrutinized report of infant poisoned by opioids in breast milk
• Journal silently removes paper for plagiarism, author claims identity theft
• U.S. ORI’s first finding of 2026: Researcher faked data in grant apps

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 63,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is up over 640, and our mass resignations list has 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

• “Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted” after “reanalysis of the data revealed errors and failed to replicate the results.”
• Researchers create a machine learning model “to distinguish paper mill publications from genuine cancer research articles.”
• Science has retracted a paper on sponges’ position on the evolutionary tree for errors in data analysis. Read more about it in last week’s Nature. 
• “The role of PubPeer in retractions of highly-cited articles.”
• Researchers propose the “Retraction Impact Index (RII), to quantify the retraction effect” by measuring changes in citation trends before and after retraction.”
• “Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It.”
• “Australian agencies’ control over outputs “is a threat to research integrity,” experts warn.”
• University of Tokyo Hospital head quits after colleagues arrested for bribery that may have affected research projects.
• “Citation cartels use fake author names to target chemistry journals.”
• An open-source tool that “provides a one-stop shop to help you assess whether journals and conferences are trustworthy or predatory.”
• “We need to move beyond the accept/reject binary in peer review,” say eLife staff members.
• “Self-Disclosed Use of AI in Research Submissions to BMJ Journals.”
• “A landmark sustainability study was wrong. Correcting it took two years.”
• “If the economics make sense, should we pay peer reviewers?”
• “Settlement Shows Failure of Integrity Oversight, More Suits Coming“: The latest on Dana-Farber’s $15 million settlement of image manipulation suit.
• “Academic publishers defeat lawsuit over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions.”
• “Bloomsbury withdraws legal textbook after author’s CV unravels.”
• Researchers find nearly 300 papers at linguistics conferences contained hallucinated citations. 
• “AI research deluge: why one conference is asking authors to rank their own papers.”
• “5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2025.”
• “Artificial Intelligence and the Fraud Industry in Scientific Publishing”: A roundtable discussion from a conference by the Spanish Research Ethics Committee.
• “Is Peer Review Really in Decline? Analyzing Review Quality across Venues and Time.”
• “On the troubling rise of generative AI suspicion in academic publishing.”
• “Does charging for corrections in the bioscience literature disincentivize pre-publication handling of problematic image data?”
• “To be or not to be value-free? A tension in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.”
• “American-Studies Journal Articles Biased Against U.S., Analysis Says.”
• “Recognition, Workload and Sustainability: Perspectives of Australian Journal Editors.”
• “Funder review rights ‘leave researchers in impossible position.'”
• “Why write a literature review if AI can do it for you?”
• “Science is self-correcting… Except when its not.”
• “So long, and thanks for all the Researchfish.”

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U.S. ORI’s first finding of 2026: Researcher faked data in grant apps

A former cancer researcher at University of Oklahoma Health Science Center has been barred from participating in federally funded research without supervision for three years after the U.S. Office of Research Integrity found he falsified data in grant applications. 

Daniel Andrade committed research misconduct by falsifying data in two grant applications, according to a summary published Feb. 6 on the ORI website and to be published in the Federal Register. The finding is the agency’s first in 2026 and follows just two findings in 2025.

Now a scientist at Cytovance Biologics, according to LinkedIn, Andrade did not return messages seeking comment. ORI also did not get back to us.

A spokesperson for the university told us by email the institution was “aware of ORI’s findings regarding a former faculty member,” and that the university “followed established procedures and communicated with the Office of Research Integrity.” The spokesperson declined to provide further details about the investigation.

The findings resulted from an investigation by the university that was supervised by ORI, which determined Andrade faked data in two grant applications: “Exosomes as Liquid Biopsies: Biomarkers for Tumor Heterogeneity and Subclonal Evolution,” submitted to National Institutes of Health (NIH), on August 20, 2020, and “miRNA signatures that predict chemoradiation response and resistance in cervical cancer using patient-derived organoids and their exosomes,” submitted to NIH and the National Cancer Institute on November 18, 2019.

Specifically, Andrade fabricated exosome nanoparticle tracking analysis  data by relabeling data obtained from a cell line as data derived from cancer patient-derived organoids (PDO) and reporting the relabeled graph to a principal investigator, who included it in one of the grant applications, according to ORI. 

Andrade also manipulated western blot data by splicing together blot image panels from unrelated experiments on different cell lines to depict a composite image of western blot data derived from exosomes of cancer PDOs, according to ORI. In addition, he falsely reported a transmission electron micrograph image was obtained from patient serum when the image was from another source.

The finding letter states that, on December 8, 2024, ORI proposed a three-year supervision period for Andrade and a three-year ban from PHS advisory service. Andrade had the opportunity to request a hearing, but did not contest the actions within the 30-day notice period, according to ORI’s summary.

Andrade is also prohibited from serving in any advisory capacity with the Public Health Service, including peer review committees.

According to Andrade’s LinkedIn profile, he was a postdoc at the university from 2014 to 2017, and an assistant professor of research at the Stephenson Cancer Center at the university from 2018 to 2021. He has been at Cytovance Biologics since 2021.

ORI typically releases about 10 findings a year. Last year’s total of two findings marked the fewest the office has released since at least 2006. According to ORI’s 2024 annual report, released on the last day of 2025, the office received 713 allegations, and closed 119 cases. 

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RFK, Jr. just claimed the keto diet can cure schizophrenia. Here’s what the science says

Preliminary studies suggest that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet could reduce schizophrenia symptoms in some people, but claiming it’s a cure is misleading, experts say

in Scientific American on 2026-02-06 22:00:00 UTC.

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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider’s end marks a new beginning for U.S. particle physics

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest and only particle collider—has ceased operations, but its science lives on

in Scientific American on 2026-02-06 19:30:00 UTC.

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New GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are coming—and they’re stronger than Wegovy and Zepbound

The upcoming drugs CagriSema and retatrutide target multiple gut hormones and could cause twice as much weight loss than current treatments. But experts wonder how much is too much

in Scientific American on 2026-02-06 19:15:00 UTC.

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How new AI technology is helping detect and prevent wildfires

From vegetation scans to 360-degree smoke detectors, new tools are trying to shine a light on the most dangerously dark areas of the electric grid

in Scientific American on 2026-02-06 18:00:00 UTC.

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Are seahawks real? The science behind Seattle's Super Bowl team

Many different bird species have been affiliated with the Seattle Seahawks’ mascot, but none is technically a “seahawk”

in Scientific American on 2026-02-06 16:53:00 UTC.

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Autistic Barbie reminds us stories have the power to counter misinformation

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When the fish stop biting, ice fishers follow the crowd

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From the Board of Governors: Interim President and CEO

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If the universe is expanding, how can galaxies collide?

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome even the stretching of space itself

in Scientific American on 2026-02-06 11:45:00 UTC.

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Snakes on a train? King cobras may be riding the rails in India

A new study suggests king cobras may be accidentally boarding trains across India

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A push to redraw the map of mental illness

Why psychiatry’s diagnostic system may undergo major changes, and what the scientific debates over how mental illnesses should be defined are

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Schneider Shorts 6.02.2026 – A corruptive pact

in For Better Science on 2026-02-06 06:00:00 UTC.

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Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas

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Hippocampal neuron and astrocyte responses to noradrenaline and natural arousal

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Journal silently removes paper for plagiarism, author claims identity theft 

If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist in the first place? It’s not just a philosophical question for the researcher whose published paper turned up in another journal under someone else’s name.

As a master’s student in 2011, researcher Silvia De Cesare published a paper in Implications Philosophiques analyzing a 20th century philosopher’s skepticism of the theory of evolution despite its compatibility with his philosophical views. Now with two doctorates — in ecology and in philosophy — De Cesare is a postdoctoral scholar at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and studies the relationships between evolutionary theory and the idea of progress. 

In June last year, De Cesare learned that someone had published a version of her article in the International Journal of Applied Science and Research (IJASR) in 2020. The paper, a near-verbatim copy of De Cesare’s article apart from the omission of a few footnotes, listed Marcellin Lunanga Mukunda, of the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as its sole author. But Mukunda denies publishing the paper, telling us he had been hacked, or perhaps robbed, as an explanation for how his name appeared on the paper. 

In correspondence seen by Retraction Watch, De Cesare contacted the editors of IJASR to report the plagiarism of her work and request the offending paper’s retraction. An editor assistant at IJASR replied, saying the journal would review the matter and remove the paper if the author did not provide a satisfactory response. 

After five months with no word from the publisher, De Cesare followed up again, and less than two weeks later, the plagiarizing paper was removed from the journal’s database. The paper was removed “due to substantial plagiarism,” an IJASR editor assistant told us. The PDF of the paper itself was still available online until mid-January, when we contacted IJASR for comments on this matter.

“Removing a paper without a retraction notice (and official excuses) seems to me to be an insufficient reaction for such a patent and serious case of plagiarism,” said De Cesare. According to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines for plagiarism in a published article, publishers should inform readers of the outcome of actions resulting from plagiarism investigations, typically with a correction or retraction notice. 

IJASR has not posted a retraction notice on their website. The journal is not indexed in Scopus or Clarivate’s Web of Science. IJASR’s Publication Ethics page contains sections referring to itself as “Journal Sosioteknologi” and shares a significant portion of its text with the Journal Policies page of a journal by that name.

Mukunda, now an associate professor at the Higher Institute of Medical Techniques of Bukavu in the DRC, told us he did not submit the paper. “I have never published an article in the IJARS [sic] journal, which I consider to be predatory,” he said. 

Two papers in IJASR listed Mukunda as an author under his University of Kinshasa affiliation, though with no contact information provided. We contacted Mukunda through an email address provided by his current university, which matches an email address from a 2024 paper related to his Ph.D. work at the University of Kinshasa. 

“In 2018, my contact details and research data have been hacked,” Mukunda said. When asked to elaborate, he then described an incident of vandalism and theft followed by threatening phone calls. He declined to provide any correspondence, investigation reports, or other evidence supporting either story.

We informed IJASR of Mukunda’s claim that he did not publish with them. “We are currently investigating our submission records and identity verification processes to determine how this occurred and if this is a case of identity theft or a predatory submission,“ the IJASR editor assistant told us. IJASR has not replied to our followup emails about the progress or outcomes of this investigation.

Plagiarism of published papers is a common problem in academic publishing. Just recently we’ve seen retractions for authors copying from colleagues, student theses, rejectedpapers, conference abstracts, preprint papers, and even their own past publications.

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Kanzi the famous bonobo may have understood ‘pretend’ objects

This famous ape may have understood pretend actions—suggesting he had the capacity to imagine

in Scientific American on 2026-02-05 19:01:00 UTC.

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Babies brains’ can follow a beat as soon as they’re born

in Science News: Neuroscience on 2026-02-05 19:00:00 UTC.

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A bonobo’s imaginary tea party suggests apes can play pretend

in Science News: Psychology on 2026-02-05 19:00:00 UTC.

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South Carolina measles outbreak is triggering dangerous brain swelling in some children

The South Carolina measles outbreak has triggered rare but serious brain swelling in some children

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Epstein files show a complicated relationship with science and journalism

Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show

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Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliant career began at the ‘House of Magic’

When a young Katharine Burr Blodgett joined future Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at the General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y, it was the start of her brilliant career

in Scientific American on 2026-02-05 18:00:00 UTC.

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Where did Luna 9 land on the moon?

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it

in Scientific American on 2026-02-05 17:35:00 UTC.

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Menstrual blood can be used to detect HPV, hinting at broader uses

A new study shows that blood collected on a sanitary pad can be used for cervical cancer screening, opening the door to new diagnostics

in Scientific American on 2026-02-05 17:06:00 UTC.

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‘X-ray dot’ discovery fuels JWST ‘black hole star’ debate

Researchers have found what might be a little red dot transitioning into its final state, where x-rays burst through its gas cocoon. Others argue the object is nothing special

in Scientific American on 2026-02-05 16:35:00 UTC.

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These two habits are linked to more than a third of all cancer cases

More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, a massive study finds

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The AI data center boom could cause a Nintendo Switch 2 memory shortage

Data centers are eating up computing resources and pushing chipmakers toward AI-grade memory, tightening supply for Nintendo and other hardware makers

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GLP-1 Drugs for Addiction: Hype or Hope?

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NASA’s next space suit for Artemis has out-of-this-world mobility

Astronauts are flying to the moon for the first time since 1972, and scientists are preparing specialized space suits for the next milestone—landing there

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The best way to help Alzheimer’s patients may be to help their caregivers

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From the Board of Governors: Dr. Karin Markides

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Women and men are almost equally as likely to be diagnosed as autistic by adulthood, new study finds

Boys are more likely to be diagnosed as autistic as children—but by adulthood, that trend changes, according to a new study in Sweden

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Lancet flags long-scrutinized report of infant poisoned by opioids in breast milk

The Lancet has put an expression of concern on a 2006 case report of a baby’s death purportedly from morphine poisoning through breast milk. The decision comes just days after the New Yorker published a year-long investigation into the death and the controversies that have surrounded it.

The case report described the 2005 death of a baby boy whose mother had been prescribed Tylenol 3, which contains codeine. Gideon Koren, founder of the now-defunct Motherisk Drug Testing Laboratory at the University of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, used the case for years to claim codeine – which gets metabolized to morphine in the body – can pose a lethal risk to breastfeeding infants.

“It feels like an element of vindication,” David Juurlink, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Toronto, told Retraction Watch of the expression of concern. Juurlink, a pharmacologist and toxicologist who has been pursuing this case for over a decade, requested The Lancet retract the article in 2020, when he and a colleague published a review article calling into question key elements of the case report. The paper, he said, “really does serve as the foundation of an entire branch of pediatric pharmacology that shouldn’t exist.”

Koren, a pediatrician and pharmacologist, resigned from the Hospital for Sick Children, known as SickKids, in 2015 following an investigation into Motherisk, a lab which tested for perinatal exposure to drugs and alcohol, including for criminal and child protection cases. The investigation, prompted by coverage in the Toronto Star, found the Motherisk lab’s test results were “inadequate and unreliable,” the newspaper reported. The investigation brought more than 400 of Koren’s papers under scrutiny by the hospital. 

In 2008, The Lancet published a letter raising questions about some of the conclusions in the 2006 report. Toxicologist Nicholas Bateman and colleagues questioned whether the dose of morphine delivered by breast milk could actually be fatal. In response, Koren and colleagues attributed the dose to the fact that the mother was a rapid metabolizer of codeine, meaning her body more readily converts codeine into morphine.

The case report came under scrutiny again in 2020, when Juurlink and pharmacologist Jonathan Zipursky published a review outlining the unlikelihood of morphine toxicity occurring through breast milk. They noted the morphine concentration in the breast milk sample was relatively small, even with the mother being a rapid metabolizer, and the baby had a codeine — not morphine — blood concentration 100 times higher than would be expected from breast milk.

That 2020 review culminated in coverage in the Star and a request for retraction to The Lancet, as well as requests for retraction for columns Koren had published in Canadian Family Physician and Canadian Pharmacists Journal. The two Canadian journals consulted two external experts and ultimately decided to retract the articles, based on “clear evidence that the findings are unreliable,” the joint retraction statement said.

The Lancet referred the matter to SickKids to investigate, and the hospital concluded the matter was simply a “scientific disagreement,” the Star reported in 2023.

“They went to Gideon Koren and three of his coauthors on the paper, and they said, ‘Do you stand by your findings?’” Juurlink told us. “In no universe is that a competent investigation.”

Parvaz Madadi, who had been a Ph.D. student in Koren’s lab, had been named as a coauthor on the two retracted papers. But she told the New Yorker she didn’t write either paper. 

On January 20, days before the New Yorker story appeared, Madadi wrote to The Lancet asking them to retract the 2006 article. The move came after Madadi reviewed her past work and the case report. 

“At the core of her letter is a new allegation: that Koren falsified toxicological data,” the New Yorker article states. Madadi confirmed those details for us but declined to comment further, pending the outcome of the investigation. According to the Feb. 3 retraction notice, “The Lancet was contacted with new allegations of falsification of toxicological data, authorship issues, and ethical concerns about the Case Report with a renewed call for retraction.”

Juurlink told us he wrote to The Lancet last week to reiterate the scientific issues with the paper. “It should be retracted because it is unreliable on account of major scientific error,” he said.

According to the notice, The Lancet is once again referring the matter to SickKids for investigation. The Lancet declined to comment further.

Koren moved to Israel after being dismissed from SickKids in 2015. As of 2022 he was affiliated with the Ariel University Adelson School of Medicine, but he is not currently listed among the faculty, and we were unable to find current contact information for him. The New Yorker reported he could not be reached for comment.

In 2019, a journal retracted a paper of Koren’s “due to concerns regarding academic and research misconduct,” including publishing the paper without his coauthor’s consent, as we reported at the time. Koren has six retractions, by our count. 

The New Yorker article describes David Naylor, the former interim president and CEO of SickKids, referring to the hospital’s faculty “screening endless manuscripts” and “devising strategies for requesting retractions of Koren’s most egregious works.”

Juurlink said the toll of Koren’s unreliable research has been enormous, but the accounting remains incomplete. 

“It’s not just about one infant death,” Juurlink said. “It’s about millions of babies not being breastfed because mom’s taking opioids. It’s about women by the millions having their peripartum analgesia modified based upon a myth,” he said. “And critically, it is about infant deaths that have been mistakenly attributed to breast milk because of this whole narrative.”

He added: “I think it is now incumbent upon the Hospital for Sick Children to get it right this time.” 

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Lung cancer hijacks the brain to trick the immune system

Lung cancer tumor cells in mice communicate with the brain, sending signals to deactivate the body’s immune response, a study finds

in Scientific American on 2026-02-04 19:00:00 UTC.

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Physicists trace particles back to the quantum vacuum

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing

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Mesmerizing 'cloud streets' emerge from Florida's frigid air

As temperatures plunged across the eastern U.S., a breathtaking cloud pattern took shape off the coasts of Florida

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Gum disease bacteria can promote cancer growth in mice

in Science News: Health & Medicine on 2026-02-04 18:00:00 UTC.

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A 200-foot asteroid has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon in 2032—and we could see it

If an incoming asteroid hits the moon, it will be visible from Earth, according to a new study

in Scientific American on 2026-02-04 17:05:00 UTC.

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NASA document reveals new Artemis II moon mission target launch dates for March

NASA quietly updated its potential launch windows for its delayed moon mission. The agency is apparently now targeting March 6 to 11

in Scientific American on 2026-02-04 17:00:00 UTC.

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‘Extraordinary’ brain network discovery changes our understanding of Parkinson’s disease

An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all

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Astronomers find a ‘baby cluster’ of galaxies that could break cosmic models

Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen

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How supercontinent breakups leave geological orphans behind

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home

in Scientific American on 2026-02-04 12:00:00 UTC.

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Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics—even snowmaking won’t save it

As Earth’s temperature rises, fewer places will be suitable for hosting the Winter Olympics

in Scientific American on 2026-02-04 11:30:00 UTC.

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‘Daily misery’—why some people can’t burp, and how Botox comes to the rescue

For those with retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction, daily life can be miserable, with symptoms such as bloating and chest pain. But a simple Botox injection can help

in Scientific American on 2026-02-04 11:00:00 UTC.

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Academic precarity in Portugal

in For Better Science on 2026-02-04 06:00:00 UTC.